THE SUBSTITUTE. 
ralisl’s library. It well illustrates 
the notice by I. I. in one of your 
Numbers. — I d. 
Lasiocampa Qwercws. — I be" to 
state that I bred and reared above 
fifty specimens of Lnsiocampa 
Quercus last year. The e""s 
were laid August 13, 185.5. The 
larvse batched Sept. 5. They fed 
slightly through the winter, ap- 
pearing to exist in a state of tor- 
por ; changed to pupa (first) June 
23, 1856, and to imago August 1, 
1856. I send up this note from 
my Diary in reply to a statement 
of Mr. Barrett’s in No. 4 of ‘ The 
Substitute,’ to the effect that all 
the larvEE of L. Quercus which he 
had ever possessed, “spun up in 
the autumn, and passed the win- 
ter as yiupsB.” I may also men- 
tion that some of my pupae are 
still undeveloped, and are now 
passing their winter in cocoon- 
box. — C. E. Lighton, Ellustone, 
Ashhorne ; November 29, 1856. 
Types of the Genera of Coleop- 
tera — a hint to dealers. — I have 
collected some two or three hun- 
dred species of Coleoptera, and 
now am sadly confused about 
their nomenclature, having no 
one to help me, but few boohs, and 
little opportunity for getting away 
from a spot to which parochial 
duties tie me. Would it not he 
worth suggesting to some of the 
London dealers, or needy entomo- 
logists, to prepare a few series of 
typical specimens of genera for 
sale? I think there would be a 
great demand for them, and that 
they would materially tend to in- 
crease the number of British Co- 
leopterists, and therefore eventu- 
ally of British Coleoptera. — H. 
A.'S. 
Gastropacha llicifolia. — I 
&1 
should feel obliged by your in- 
serting the following in due 
course. Having friends residing 
in the neighbourhoods of Dart- 
moor and Exmoor, where the 
Whortleberry abounds, I should 
feel obliged to any entomologist 
who will forward me a coloured 
drawing of the caterpillar of Gas- 
tropacha llicifolia, as I intend to 
copy it and to distribute the copies 
amongst the fruit-gatherers in the 
above localities, in the hope of 
alighting upon this species ; and 
if I succeed in procuring any will 
forward a pair of specimens to the 
sender thereof. I think if those 
who reside where the plant 
abounds were to show a drawing 
of the larva to the gatherers of the 
fruit, we should soon have speci- 
mens in every collection. — E. S. 
Norcombe, Heavitree ; N&vembsr 
24, 1856. 
The Packing of Specimens to 
Correspondents. — It is very trying 
to one after perusing a letter from 
a correspondent and reading there- 
in the following : — “ The insects 
arrived safe — quite safe —not an 
antenna injured, for which I am 
much obliged, and have returned 
the box containing so and so, 
which I hope will arrive safe-,” 
when at the same time the sender 
never used the means that they 
should arrive safely, if they are 
stuck — large, lumpy, egg-full 
bodies of Bomhyces (without a 
single cross pin to prevent the 
rumbling thereof if they should 
get loose) — with Geometrai and 
Tortrices, and when you open the 
cover loose pins and lots of dust 
are all that remain of specimens 
you would have given anything to 
have had perfect. I do not be- 
lieve in hope, but in action. Take 
