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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Pupa-diggers, ray friend Mr. Greene, to 
make known my success in this new field 
of entomological work. I find, on refe- 
rence to my notes, that I started, trowel 
in hand, for my first day’s “ grub- 
hunting,” as my friends and neighbours 
irreverently term it, on the 19th of Sep- 
tember : I did little or nothing the first 
day, and I verily believe it was because 
I have always had a prejudice in favour 
of clean hands, which I begin to find 
must be with real entomologists of secon- 
dary importance. I did not heed Mr. 
Greene’s warning, “Wear no gloves,” 
and so 1 was sent home with nothing in 
my pockets. The next day I left my 
gloves at home, and I brought home 
forty-nine pupae ; on the 29th I got fifty- 
nine, and on two successive days I got 
twelve, — all from oaks. I don’t know 
very much about pupae yet, but I do know 
this, that I have got between thirty or 
forty pup® of D. Dodoncea and three or 
four P. trepida, and I hope to do a great 
deal more before I exchange the trowel 
for the net and umbrella. I think that 
this is a sufficient proof of the importance 
of working hard during the autumn and 
winter months. I tremble when I think 
how my back ached at first, and I don’t 
think my hands look so clean as they did 
of yore, but I am amply repaid when I 
look into my pupa-box ; and I hope that 
next year I may be able to redeem my 
character with some of my newly-made 
acquaintances and correspondents in the 
matter of T. W-album : I may say that 
I had 120 letters of application for my 
small friend, and therefore I fear I must 
have made many people grumble not a 
little; but, if I live, I will try to do jus- 
tice to all as far as I can in some way ; 
and I may take this opportunity of stating 
that if any of my friends have not received 
their boxes again, — the reason is that I 
will not send them empty. I may add that 
I would recommend all pupa-searchers 
to look diligently on all the small ledges 
formed by the roots of large trees, on 
which a little mould and moss have col- 
lected: such spots are not indicated in 
Mr. Greene’s valuable paper, but I find 
from experience that they are the favourite 
winter residences of D. Dodoncea. — Rev. 
Herbert Bree, Woolverstone, Ipswich ; 
October 9. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
Lucanus Cervus near Kingston. — This 
magnificent beetle has been very abun- 
dant this year at Kingston. Should any 
of your correspondents be in want of the 
species, I shall be happy to supply them 
with it as long as my slock lasts. — C. R. 
Sheppard, at George Long , Esq., Clap- 
ham Park, Clapham, Surrey ; Oct. 9. 
Hemiptera. 
Corizus hyoscyami. — I shall have great 
pleasure in sending specimens of this in- 
sect (taken in Devonshire) to all who send 
boxes with return postage. — E. C. Rye, 
14, King's Parade , Chelsea. 
Oxford University Entomological 
Society. — The first meeting of the pre- 
sent term will be held on Tuesday, 
October 20, at 8 p.m. Any entomologists 
who are not already members, but wish 
to attend or to be elected, are requested 
to communicate with the President of 
the Society, the Rev. II. A. Pickard, of 
Christ Church. 
GUENEE'S ‘ GEOMETRY.' 
On this important subject I have re- 
ceived the following letter: — 
“ Les Clnilellieres, 
September 2t>, 1857. 
“ Dear Sir, — I wish I could inform 
you of the precise period when my two 
volumes of the Geometric will be pub- 
lished, but I cannot yet enlighten you 
