118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEH. 
I was informed, nearly forty years ago, by 
an old entomologist named Branford, 
that he had often heard the sound 
emitted from the pupa. 
My first imago appeared on the lOlh 
of September, the last on the 27th of 
November. In the year 1856 I had one 
emerge on Christmas-eve: I have bred 
them also a week later than this. I 
believe the insect in the pupa can per- 
ceive the light. Upon one occasion I 
lifted the lid of the box and covering of 
the pupae underneath a very strong gas- 
light, and almost in an instant two of the 
moths burst forth from the pupae, but in 
a very immature and pallid state, though 
doubtless in a happier one than if they 
had had, like some of their kindred, in- 
stead of a sudden light, a sudden heavy 
discharge, or countryman’s “squirt” from 
their habitation and this sublunary scene. 
— Abk.\ua.m Edmunds, The Tijihing, 
Worcester ; Dec. 28, 1858. 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange. — I have about five speci- 
mens of Aspilalcs citraria, which I should 
be happy to exchange for E. Cassiope or 
P. Arion ; also a number of C. Edusa 
and a few C. Cardui for G. C-albu 7 n, 
E. Dlandina, C. Davus or P. A rtaxerxes. 
I have also a number (uot in good condi- 
tion) of L. Sibglla, P. Corydon and 
A. Paphia, which I shall be happy to 
give away without any return whatever, 
on receipt of box and return postage. — 
A. J. llicHAiiDS, Farlington Rectory, 
Havant, Hants ; Dec. 31, 1858. 
MR. WATERHOUSE’S CATALOGUE OF 
COLEOPTERA. 
To the Editor of the ' InteUigencer.' 
Sir, — I should feel obliged by vour 
inserting, in the next number of your 
journal, the following obsen'ations in 
reply to Mr. Waterhouse’s communica- 
tion, published in your impression of the 
25lh inst. 
The statements made by me in the 
‘Annual’ for 1859 refer solely to the 
Brachelytra, of which alone Mr. Water- 
house can be regarded as the author, the 
remaining portions of his Catalogue (the 
groups Geodephaga and Hydradephaga) 
being, with very few additions and altera- 
tions, a mere reprint of the List issued 
by Messrs. Dawson and Clark in 1856. 
They are based upon the nomenclature 
adopted and published by Mr. Water- 
house, and their veracity will be apparent 
to any one, privileged with the requisite 
leisure, and possessing a knowledge of 
our Brachelytra, who will give himself 
the trouble of consulting Mr. Stephens’ 
cabinet at the British Museum, provided 
that the specimens have not been disturbed 
since I investigated them, “ by authority,'' 
about three years back. 
When Mr. Waterhouse ventures, in 
plain English and without equivocation, 
simply to assert (he is not required to 
prove it) that what I have advanced is 
false, then, but not till then, do I con- 
sider it expedient to publish other evi- 
dence on the subject. 
I trust that “ the object of my state- 
ments is obvious,” viz. to call the attention 
of entomologists to the (in my humble 
opinion) fallacious grounds upon which 
Mr. Waterhouse has sought to establish 
the nomenclature and synonymy of the 
British Brachelytra. 
In respect to my statement that in his 
Lists of Rhizophagus and Monotoma 
Mr. Waterhouse has appended no authors’ 
names to the species, — if, on reference to 
the published ‘Proceedings of the Eiito- 
mological Society,’ of the 7th December, 
1857, it is found that he has in reality 
not done so, and that the only due he 
gives his readere thereto is merely the 
announcement that he had determined 
his sjiecies of the former “ from Erich- 
