THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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is five miles to Lyraington — the train 
ought to he open to-day, hiit is not — 
“ Waiter ; bread and clieese and a pint of 
XXX !” A composing pipe, — “ Waiter; 
a pint of superior cyder ! ’’ — a preparatory 
pipe, and the five miles to Lymington 
glided hy us unheeded ; one dip in the 
sea, and we cross the Solent to Yar- 
mouth. Here a copse aflbrded us A, 
prunaria, male and female, and C. du- 
plaris ; in addition to the ordinary home 
produce perhaps I may mention H. 
nymphealis, which is hardly Un- 
mitigated chicory was our evening re- 
past, and a hypnotic pipe was of course 
required. Friday, to Cowes and Ryde, 
taking H.serena on palings as we passed 
Osborne. Tuesday, July 13th — ten days 
vacation, varied by visits to some resi- 
dent entomologists in the neighbour- 
hood, whose kindness and hospitality 
surpassed that of Freemasons. Not to 
particularize the localities too accurately, 
as they are not of my own discovery, I 
will mention generally the capture of 
T. lehneumoniforme, both by sweeping 
and inspection of the flowers of the Lolus 
coniiculatus during bright sunshine only ; 
ofN. Bembeciforrnis on poplar; of A.luni- 
gera and A. lucernea, at sugar, in profu- 
sion ; and of H. dipsacea. A. Trifolii was 
tolerably abundant, but no Lonicercc were 
to be found. A. Galalhea swarmed in all 
places, even in woods and turnpike roads ! 
A. subsericearia fell to the lot of a friend, 
and we found C. angustalis in profu- 
sion, also E. verbascalis and B.Jlavalis. 
B. cinctalis and lancealis we took, on our 
return, in the New Forest; but by this 
time the continued drought proved very 
unfavourable to sugaring, and C. pro- 
inissa was very scarce, as well as pecu- 
liarly shy. The black variety of Faphia 
was equally hard to find. A. emutaria 
we took, as w'e ought, at Lyndhurst ; 
here, too, we look a fresh specimen of 
G. Rhamni $ ! (we had taken several 
fresh specimens of Colias Edusa a month 
since, as well as A. Airopos and some 
others). We took or noticed many' com- 
mon species not worth recording; but as 
no prospect of rain appeared, we worked 
rapidly homewards, with a registered 
mem, not to forget to pad the strap of the 
kuiipsack just where it presses one’s 
clavicle. (N. B. — This is the fifih time 
of registering the above mem.) Thanks 
to the kindness of A. G. More, Esq., of 
Bembridge, we were enabled to take 
C. laterale, in abundance, under high- 
water mark: our other Coleopterous and 
Hymenoplerous captures must be re- 
served for the present, as also an account 
of some interesting captures going on at 
present in our ow'n neighbourbood, as I 
have already exceeded all bounds. — 
W. D. Crotch, Uphill House, Weston- 
super-Mare. 
Adventures of a Larva of Q^cophora 
pseudospretella. — 'The following is ex- 
tracted from the journal of the Rev. John 
Bristow, Tinahely, Wicklow : — 
“ December 6, 1857. On looking at 
some duplicate moths in a store-box to- 
day, I found, in spile of camphor, a spe- 
cimen of C. Eipenor with the body 
altogether devoured, except a thin ex- 
ternal shell, the rich rose-coloured down 
strewn about the box. The depredator 
I soon discovered in the form of a whitish 
grub ihree-fourihs of an inch long, with 
sixteen feet, chestnut-coloured head, a few 
scattered hairs over the body, — an exact 
resemblance of a small larva of II. hu- 
muli ; on leaving C. Eipenor it attacked 
A. Caja, which it has soon left, and does 
not seem to relish much. 
“ December 16. Larva, after roaming 
the box and devouring the internal 
parts of A. Jilipendului, has woven a 
cocoon in the body of L. Quercus, The 
moth appeared on the 7th of June, 
1858.” 
The moth has been sent me for deter- 
mination, and is (E. pseudospretella . — 
H. 'F. Stainton. 
