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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
A. Aceris, p. Dysodea, 
L. Albicoloii, Serena, 
N. Depuncta, D. Pinastri, 
Any Nonagria except Typliae. 
William H ydes, liagshaw's Utiildings, 
Park Spring, Sheffield; Dec. 15. 
Thanks. — I take this opportunity of 
publicly returning iny sincere thanks to 
Messrs. Blackinore, Buckler, Boyd and 
Bircball (four B.’s) for their most kind 
and liberal loan of insects. I have been 
supplied by them with all the species I 
wanted, except Allantiforme, Bicuspis 
and Sicvla. Their kindness has been 
much enhanced by the fact that in 
several instances the insects were British 
specimens. I hope it may be in my power 
to repay them in some way. — Rev. J. 
Greene, Cuhley Rectory, Doveridge, 
Derby. 
Stock exhausted. — My stock of N. Lu- 
cina is exhausted, and those friends who 
have not heard from me will not now 
hear until the ensuing season, when I 
shall be most happy to supply them. 
Box shall be returned, if required. — 
Isaac Swinden, 236, South St., Park, 
Sheffield. 
A WOKD OK TWO ABOUT DIARIES. 
“ Let diaries, therefore, be made.” 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer.’ 
Sir, — In the last paragraph of the 
leader “ Locomotion,” of the 21st inst., 
are the above words, to which I most 
cordially subscribe, as will probably 
many more of your readers. Some of 
them will thereupon make resolutions, — 
others will make diaries ; from the latter 
good results may be expected, whilst the 
former will end in adding a pebble or 
two to that already-well-paved unmen- 
tionable place. Well-paved indeed ! and 
unfortunately with a few patches of my 
own. 
Now, as I think a word or two on the 
form of a diary, to those who really are 
in earnest, may not be unacceptable, I 
trouble you with this epistle, if you think 
it worth its sjtace in your columns. I 
will describe, as briefly as possible, one 
wbicb I have experienced much pleasure 
in keeping, and instruction in afterwards 
perusing. Let no one feel abashed at 
writing down the veriest trifle, and the 
habit once formed many important facts 
will get recorded, wbicb, at tbe time, may 
appear, even to the diarist himself, as 
next to useless. 
The diary I have before me is used to 
record the natural histories and transfor- 
mations of Micro-Lepidopterous larvae ; 
it is written in a book of foolscap size, — 
the entire opening being used : the left- 
hand page is divided into six columns, 
and the right into five, which I will here 
consider as numbered respectively 1 to 
11, from left to right. 
In the first column is entered the date 
of the record, the rotation number of 
the larvae, and whence obtained. 
(The box or other breeding ap- 
paratus containing the larvae when 
described bearing the same num- 
ber.) 
Tbe second column contains particulars 
of the size, colour, habit, food-plant 
and mode of feeding. 
The third, the colour, shape, lustre or 
markings of the head and trophi. 
The fourth contains similar de- 
tails applicable to the shield or 
corselet. 
The fifth, the shape, size, colour and 
situations of the spots. 
The sixth, details relative to the anal 
segment. 
In the seventh I enter remarks on the 
ventral aspect of the larvte. 
The eighth is devoted to occasional 
memoranda concerning tbe larvas, 
which cannot properly be entered in 
either of the preceding. 
