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shall he pleasee^ to forward them 
to any one who may apply for 
them. In one of the Numbers of 
the ‘ Intelligencer’ or ‘Zoologist’ 
(I cannot recollect which), a per- 
son showed his disbelief in the 
fact of Lilliosia larvse eating grass 
or other plants than lichens. I will 
just observe that Lithosia com- 
plana was taken among grass, that 
it ate grass, and I fed it upon 
grass for many weeks. They were 
very young when taken, and about 
this time two years ago I had 
them eat the leaves of forest trees 
I also, and I have had them refuse 
, any thing and every thing I 
■ offered them.— J. J. Reading, 
Plymouth; November 20, 1856. 
Specimens of Zygcenidce re- 
I quested. — If any of your corres- 
pondents would favour me with 
any specimens of the Zygcenidce I 
should be very much obliged. — F. 
B. W. White, 2, Athole Place, 
Perth ; November, 19, 1856. 
“ W/io bids for the Bugs P ” — 
Since the spirited appeal on be- 
half of this order of insects, which 
appeared in No. 24 of the ‘ Intel- 
ligencer,’ I have been anxiously 
awaiting the announcement that 
some one was going to make a 
hid for them. It would doubtless 
be a great gratification to many to 
hear that a volume on this order 
was in preparation ; such as 
Walker on the Diptera, Stainton 
on the Tineina, Smith on the 
Bees. Why is so much attention 
devoted to the Lepidoptera exclu- 
sively? Mainly, I imagine, be- 
cause through tiie numerous works 
on them that have been published 
and are still publishing, the col- 
lector is able, by his own study, or 
with the assistance of others, to 
make something of them. He can 
talk about them, write about them 
intelligibly, arrange them, know 
what he has and what he wants, 
where and when to look for them. 
Even in Lepidoptera almost every 
one that collects them now collects 
the Tineina; but it was not so in 
England before Mr. Stainton set 
to work at them, correcting the 
nomenclature, studying their ha- 
bits, and communicating all the 
information that he could gather. 
They were neglected by a great 
many, simply because they could 
make nothing of them. And so 
it is with the Hemiptera: without 
accessible books containing speci- 
fic descriptions, without ready ac- 
cess to correctly-named collections 
of good specimens, the student in 
any branch of Natural History 
makes excessively slow progress. 
During an excursion to the New’ 
Forest in September, I collected 
such of the Hemiptera as came in 
my way whilst looking for other 
orders, but of those which I 
brought home I could make out 
the specific name of only two; 
one is the Corizus Hyoscyami, and 
I beg leave to ask a question about 
it. What has it to do with the 
Hyoscyamus P Do, I pray of 
those who can supply it, let us 
have some information about the 
bugs, or any of them, one species 
only excepted. — Benj. Cooke, 
49, Ardtvick Place, Manchester ; 
November 22, 1856. 
Anstvers to Queries in ‘ The 
Substihile.’ — In reply to Mr. 
Lubbock’s enquiry I have some 
hundreds of a case-bearer now 
feeding, bred from a case which 
never had a male near it: they 
are feeding upon lichen. [What 
is the name of the case-le.irer?] 
In reply to Mr. Barrett’s enquiry, 
