THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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“ Sacramento” was dry or merely vul- 
garly muddy, and many a “ Placero ” 
situated to win the admiration of Auro or 
Aurelio-entomologists proved anything 
hut auriferous or aureliferous. Taking 
the average between occasional “ hauls” 
of twenty and much more numerous 
blanks, three useful pups to a tree was 
our modicum of success through the day, 
and this is above the ordinary average. 
Dusk aud the dinner-bell put an end to 
the campaign for that day: our numbers 
were 96. Omitting the good cheer of our 
host as beyond my powers of description, 
I pass to the next day. A rainy morning 
gave place (without putting the screw on) 
to a glorious afternoon, and we obtained 
150 pupae before dusk, after which we re- 
turned to count the spoil. From notes 
of our captures last year, including two 
X. conspicillaris, male and female, from 
the elm, we think we have one or two 
pupae of the last-named insect, also T. 
munda and D. do dona a among our best 
prizes, besides those before mentioned, 
with the ordinary amount of Sphiugina 
and the common Noctuina : these are all 
carefully deposited in a filtering-case, to 
bide their time, but we hope greatly to 
augment their number. In conclusion, 
and on another subject, I cannot help 
mentioning that we took at ivy last night 
no less a thing than Cerastis Erythro- 
eephala ! it perfectly agrees with the de- 
scription of that insect in the ‘ Manual,’ 
having the three small dots in the base 
of the renal stigma, and is quite unlike 
the figure of any other species, except 
that of G. Candelisequa in W estwood, 
which it resembles, excepting the before- 
mentioned dots. My last notice brought 
upon me a cloud of incipients, many of 
whom confess to beginning their study 
this summer. Is it wise to help them at 
this early period ? would not their working 
unassisted as yet, afford the best criterion 
of their ultimate perseverance, without 
which specimens are merely wasted on 
them and their characters as men of pur- 
pose simply lessened? Young Barnes is 
quite welcome to apply for Erythro- 
cephala, that I may form his acquaintance 
and — avoid him. — W. D. Crotch, Uphill 
House, Weston-super-Mare ; Nov. 2. 
Orgyia Gonostigma. — I was fortunate 
enough to get a brood of eggs of this in- 
sect the beginning of July last. They 
hatched in about fourteen days, and the 
young larvae fed freely on hawthorn : two 
males of the perfect insect came out the 
middle of August, at which time the 
majority of the larvae were full fed, and 
many had spun up. In September I 
bred about seventy specimens, male and 
female. A few of the larvae grew very 
slowly, and will evidently hybernate ; but, 
strange to say, about half a dozen of the 
larvae continued feeding till the middle 
of October, when they spun up, and last 
evening I found two fine males just 
emerged from the pup®. The larv® 
have all been treated exactly in the same 
manner, and fed in the same cages. With 
the exception of the two last, the speci- 
mens are all much smaller than the usual 
July brood. — W. Machin, 35, William 
Street, Globe Fields, Mile End, N.E. ; 
November 4. 
Ornix on Hornbeam. — I found an 
Ornix larva mining the leaves of the 
hornbeam in September, very similar in 
its habits to that on the beech. Unfor- 
tunately I was rather late for them, and 
I have only a few cocoons. — Professor 
Frey, Zurich ; October 22. 
Ornix on Lime. — A single bush of 
Tilia Europcea in a wood furnished me 
with four mines of an Ornix, two of 
which still contained the larvae, which 
have now entered the pupa state. — I bio. 
A new Mine on Coltsfoot . — In October 
I found some leaves of this plant ( Tus - 
silago farfara) with a very large, ra- 
diating mine, something like that of Cos- 
mopteryx Drurella on the hop leaves, 
only larger. The sixteen-footed larva is 
rather large, green, on the back brown ; 
it changes to pupa in the ground, and 
