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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
trees, espenially the sycamore. In October 
and the winter months specimens of Cala- 
tlius mollis, Opatrum tibiale, Dromius 
litiearis and foveolus may be obtained on 
the sand-hills; the former is very abun- 
dant, creeping from all places ; of the 
others D. linearis is common, of O. tibi- 
ale only a few specimens have been taken. 
In conclusion, let me hope that some 
readers, desirous of adding P. sulcieollis, 
O. tibiale, &c., to their collections by 
their own hands, will pay a visit to 
Southport in the month of May ; I can 
safely promise that they will not go away 
iiurewarded. — R. Tviiek, jun. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Food of Hypena Crassalis. — According 
to my experience the larva of II. Cras- 
salis feeds on the bilberry, and I have 
bred many dozens of that beautiful spe- 
cies. I much question the correctness 
of Treitsclike’s assertion that this larva 
feeds on heath. — F. O. Stan dish, 2, Al- 
fred Cottages, Warner Road, Camberwell. 
Bedellia somnulentella. — The larvaj of 
this species were plentiful at Greenhiihe, 
on Convolvulus arvensis (small bind-weed). 
I also observed them, on the 2nd iust., on 
the same plant, in Hamilton Road, Nor- 
wood. — CuABLES Healv, 4, Bath Place, 
Haggerstone, N.E. ; Oct. 15. 
EXCHANGE. 
A Locust for a Death's Head. — I have 
a specimen of the locust, which I cap- 
tured last summer at Southampton, and 
which I should be very glad, if possible, 
to exchange for a specimen of A. Atropos. 
As that insect is so abundant this year, 
perhaps some one will be able to assist 
me. — F. H. Fawkes, Upton Park, Slough, 
Bucks; October \A. 
Exchange. — I shall be ha|)py to ex- 
change any of the following duplicates. 
viz., 1.5, 20, 87, 137, 108, 188, 214, 233, 
257, 289, 290, 299, 300, 303, 304, 306, 
307, .309, 310, 312, .320, 334, .337, 351, 
354, 357, 358, 360, 361, 363, 364, 368, 
369, 370, 373, 374, 376, 384, 385, 403, 
408, 417, 424, 4.32, 4.39,440, 441,446, 
447, 450, 451, 454, 464, 483,485,486, 
for any of the undermentioned, viz., 38, 
43, 44, 48, 49, 52, 63, 75, 77, 86, 88, 89, 
92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 102, 10.3, 108, 109, 
111,112, 115,116,117, 119,120, 121,123, 
124, 128, 131, 132,134,140,149,161,174, 
182, 187, 378, 414, 449, 463, 467, 469. 
Pereons wishing to exchange will be kind 
enough to write before sending their 
boxes. All my duplicates are in very 
good condition. — J.B.R vder, 15, Navy 
Row,Morice Town, Devonport ; Oct. 11. 
Stock exhamted. — My C. Elpenor are 
now distributed, except a few which I have 
promised, to whom I know not, having 
mislaid their notes and forgotten their 
addresses; if those gentlemen will once 
more favour me with their addresses it 
will much oblige. Those correspondents 
whom 1 have not answered will, I hope, 
seeing the cause, not feel themselves 
slighted, for if my stock had been eight 
hundred, instead of nearly two hundred, 
I could barely have supplied the de- 
mand. Such a flood of correspondence 
quite alarmed my little home, eight or 
ten letters arriving each day, — untiring, 
unceasing, — more in one week than in 
all my life before ! but time hath an end, 
and so with my correspondence. I will 
thank those gentlemen who can make it 
convenient to return my boxes, having 
sent all away ; I very much need some 
now, and shall leel a pleasure in viewing 
their old faces again. — Robekt Burns, 
63, Edmund St., Birmingham ; Oct. 13. 
EXAMINATIONS IN ENTOMOLOGY. 
To the Editor nf the ' Intellii/cncer.' 
Sir, — There was such a variety of 
thought and opinion among your cor- 
