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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEB. 
of these inleresting species. — J. W. 
Douglas, Lee ; Sept. ]8. 
OBSEEVATIONS. 
Eygs of Agrolis Puta . — Can you give 
me any information as to the habits or 
food-plant of Agrolis PutaF [No.] I 
took a pair in cop. last week, and the 
female is now laying. I should very 
much like to rear some of the larvae. If 
any gentlemen would like to have a try 
I shall have pleasure in sending them 
eggs as long as my stock lasts. — S. Bing- 
ham, Bunk, Newnliam ; Oct. 4. 
Agrolis Saucia bred . — During a short 
visit to my friend Mr. Winter, of llau- 
worth,at the latter end of August, a little 
girl brought me a light brown pupa, 
which her father had dug from the 
garden. I believed at the time it was 
only //. Brassica;, being about the same 
size: however, into the pupa-box it went, 
and after being at home a few days it 
chauged to nearly black ; and now there 
has emerged from the supposed Brassicm 
pupa a very fine and perfect A. Suucia. 
The weather was unfavourable during my 
stay, but 1 succeeded in capturing a 
number of species, including Lil/iosia 
Muscerda, ligpenodes Albislrigalis and 
Coslccslrigalis, Calocala Nupla, See., Sec. 
Would you or any collector please to in- 
form me whether E. Cribrum lives in the 
larva or pupa state during the winter, as 
I have nine larva; now feeding? Insects 
are now coming freely to sugar in the 
bushes; I took one A. Saucia on Friday 
night. — Thomas Hague, and Par- 
tridge," Slalegbridge ; Sepl. 27. 
Parisiana and Boscana . — I am now 
breeding L. Parisiana from larva; which 
I could not distinguish from those which 
produced L. Boscana last June, collected 
also from the same elm trees. Yet those 
now bred are of uniform appearance, as 
those bred iu J unc were all unmistakable 
and unvarying Boscana. I will endeavour 
to prove, by breeding from the egg, either 
the identity (which I suspect) or the dis- 
tinctness of the two species. — H ev. E. 
Horton, Wick, Worcester; Sepl. 24. 
Peronea Potentillana . — This supposed 
new species is abundant in my garden, 
flying freely for an hour before dusk ; 
after that time it may be taken at rest on 
the strawberry-leaves by means of a lan- 
tern ; in the day-time it may be obtained 
by disturbing the strawberry-leaves, or 
bushes near them. With all due de- 
ference to Mr. Gregsou, I place these 
insects in my collection as Comparana, 
and defy anybody to separate the va- 
rieties. A few years ago I bred Com- 
parana, from larvae feeding on Vaccinhim 
Myrtillus, on the Moors, — locality and 
plant more likely to produce a new spe- 
cies than the garden strawberry ; these 
specimens were very large, and of a rich 
dark reddish brown colour. Mr. E. Shep- 
herd considered them varieties, and his 
collection of Peronea is, I presume, the 
best in England. This so-called Poten- 
tillana will not be over for some days, 
and I shall be glad if the London ento- 
mologists will look after it, and report 
progress in the ‘Intelligencer.’ — IL S. 
Edleston, Bowdon ; Sept. 25. 
Dryops femorata . — This beetle, of a 
light brown colour, with a long, narrow', 
soft body and long antennae, is frequently 
found by Lepidopterists on ivy blossoms 
at this season, and is usually thrown 
away. I should be much obliged to any 
one who may meet with specimens if he 
will send them to me. — J. W, Douglas, 
0, Kingswood Place, Lee, London, S.E.; 
Sept. 28. 
EXCHANGE. 
Agrotis Saucia in Duplicate . — I have 
taken a number of line specimens of 
Agrotis Saucia, and have duplicates. 
Among my desiderata arc, — 
