THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 179 
Change of Address. — Having left 
Bevnarcl Street, my address will in future 
be— J. H. Tilly, 9, Judd Street, Bruns- 
wick Square, W.C. ; February 22. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Seasonable Notes. 
Rubbish-heaps. — I know an entomolo- 
gist, who, whenever, in the summer, he 
goes on a visit to a friend living in the 
country, asks always where the garden 
refuse is put; and there, in the evening, 
he stations himself, net in hand, to catch 
the beetles that come flying about the 
attractive mass. But we need not go 
out of the London smoke district to find 
such delicious compounds ; they are 
common in the lanes of the suburbs, and 
in the market-gardens. Rubbish-heap, 
the gardener calls it, but to a Coleoplerist 
it is El Dorado, where riches beyond con- 
ception abound. Not only in summer 
may this better-than-golden country be 
explored, but now, even while it is yet 
called winter, during such open weather 
as we have lately had, there is no belter 
place for a beetle-lover to occupy himself 
for an hour or two, and there is the ad- 
vantage of absence of the oleraceous 
scent that in summer prevails in such a 
locality. At this season a net is useless, 
hut take a large sheet of strong white 
cartridge paper, shake some of the loose 
material over it, throw off the larger 
pieces, and then kneel down on a mat or 
oil-cloth, and see. Tachypori run off in 
swarms, Philonthi and Quedii make for 
the margin, or bury themselves among 
the debns. Throw away some more of 
the super-incumbent matter, shaking it 
first, and then a Stenus, a Homalota or 
I two, a Lithocharis, See., come into view. 
Having cleared the field of these, you 
will see a lot of black atoms running 
wildly about ; these belong to the genera 
Trichopteryx, Ptiliuin and Fphisiemus ; 
there are also testaceous minims — Serico- 
derus testaceus. By this time you will 
probably see a Hister looking from be- 
neath his thorax to see if his way is clear, 
and Onthophilus, Cercyon, Micropeplus 
and Corticaria follow his example. In 
ten minutes you will have cleared off all 
these, and begin to think there is nothing 
more ; but wait awhile ; first here and 
then there the granules seem to move, 
and Latridius nudifer steps out, and, 
last of all, a Monotoma leisurely unfolds 
his legs. After a prolonged inspection, 
you may clear your paper, and the ex- 
amination of another bunch of rubbish 
will probably not only give you most 
of the species you obtained the first time, 
but also some others, such as Scydtneni, 
Falagrice, &c., and it will he long ere 
you exhaust the wealth of the neglected 
rubbish-heap. — J. W. Douglas, Lee; 
February 23. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
List of Lepidopteka taken in the 
Neigh nouRHooD of Barnstaple. 
(Coutinued from p. 100.) 
Geometra Papilionaria. Rare. 
Hemithea Cythisaria. Scarce. 
Chlorochroma ^rugiuaria. Common. 
C. .Sstivata. Do. 
Metrocampa Margaritata. Do. 
Ourapleryx Sambucaria. By no means 
common. 
Rumia Crataegata. Larva and perfect 
insect most abundant. 
Pericallia Syringaria. Rare. 
Epione Apiciaria. Very abundant at 
Ilfracombe ; once bred from a larva 
feeding between united leaves of Sulix 
caprea. 
Enuomos Illunaria. Summer brood 
most abundant of the two. 
E. Angularia. Common. 
