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we fear before then they would get little 
attention. 
H — S., Regensbcry. — 1st. Send your 
letter for Mr. Clemens here; 2nd. Will 
be answered shortly ; your offer will ap- 
pear next week ; 3rd. Your inquiry has 
been forwarded to F. W. ; 4th. Z. is well 
and busy. 
D. M. — Fear you have hoaxed ; we do 
not purchase. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Phlogophora Empyrea. — Not seeing 
any announcement in the last ‘ Intelli- 
gencer’ of Phlogophora Empyrea being 
captured, I beg to state that I have 
taken nine or ten pairs of very fine 
specimens. — S. Howse, 82, St. James 
Street, Brighton ; October 20. 
Vanessa Polychloros. — Mr. Merrill tells 
us that he has, on the 5th of October, a 
young brood of V. Polychloros feeding 
on elm. Will Mr. M. also be kind 
enough to inform us how, when and 
where he got this brood ? Mr. Double- 
day, who knows as much of the habits of 
the Lepidoptera as any one, says he 
never saw any of the hybernating insects 
pair in the autumn, and I think I am 
right when I say that it is the generally 
received opinion among all entomologists, 
that they never pair or lay eggs till the 
spring. If Mr. Merrin has reared a young 
brood of V. Polychloros from eggs laid by 
a female bred this summer, it is a new 
and most interesting fact in Eutomology, 
and I hope he will give us the fullest 
particulars. The young larva of Lithosia 
griseola may now be beaten, about a 
quarter grown, from willows and sallows; 
they feed both on the leaves and on the 
lichens which grow on the trunks and 
boughs : they very closely resemble the 
young larva; of V. Polychloros ; they hy- 
bernate and feed up in the spring. Is 
Mr. Merrin quite sure that he has not 
been beating the larva of L. griseola P — 
Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, Stoxvmarlcet, 
Suffolk; October 19. 
Stock exhausted. — My duplicates of 
Erebia Blandina are all gone: the appli- 
cants whom I have not answered must 
please excuse me. — W. Cairnes, Head 
of Church Street, Durham; Oct. 16. 
Duplicate Lepidoptera. — I have four 
pairs of each of Nos. 33 and 34, and 
several pairs of Nos. 15 and 18, which I 
should be glad to exchange for any of 
the following: — Nos. 3, 5, 23, 25, 39, 44, 
50, 51, 55 or 57. — R. S. Reynolds, 
Mansfield, Notts ; October 16. 
Duplicate Lepidoptera. — Having pupae 
of Sphinx Ligustri and Smerinthus 
Populi, also bred specimens of Macro- 
glossa Slellatarum and larvae of Ltsio- 
campa Rubi, I should be happy to ex- 
change them for 
Trochilium tipuliforme, 
Thyatira derasa, 
Anarta Myrtilli, 
Pcecilocampa Populi, 
Psilura Monacha, 
Petasia Cassinea, or 
Calocampa Exoleta. 
— II chert Fry, 18, Medina Villas, 
Cliflonville, Brighton ; October 19. 
Duplicate Lepidoptera. — I have dupli- 
cates of the following insects for ex- 
change, numbered from the Appendix to 
the ‘ Manual 21, 34, 57, 86, 118, 139, 
145, 156, 164, 168, 173, 178, 179, 189, 
211,226,402,425,438. My wants are 
the following numbers: — 3, 12, 13, 23, 
29, 54, 55, Tliecla (any), 75, 78, 136, 163, 
166, 186, 205, 218, 329, 439, 440,470, 
471, 484, 491, 492, 493. The moths are 
all bred specimens, and I shall want 
good insects in exchange. Persons 
wishing to exchange had better write 
and say what they have and which they 
want for them. I pay the expense of 
box one way ; they to send the box. — 
William Johnson, 1 , Coronation Square, 
Gas St., Gt. Bolton, Lancashire ; Oct. 19. 
