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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
I can blanket a box for one-fourth of the 
cost of cork, and find it answer equally 
as well. The process is simple enough : 
cut the blanket the size of the drawer, 
and glue it down with good fresh glue ; 
when perfectly dry, soak it well with 
fresh paste, and paste one side of the 
paper also ; place the paper on the 
blanket, and smooth it well down with a 
warm linen cloth. In four days it will, 
in a favourable situation, be fit to hold 
insects. - — R. Tyber, jun., Bow Lane, 
Southport. 
Duplicate Micro- Lepidoptera — I have 
a limited number (twelve) of L. Parisiana, 
very fine and fresh, and about twenty 
of Ch. Cluerophyllellus and twelve of 
Pleroph. P/ueodactylus, if any of your 
correspondents would like to exchange 
other Tortrices or Tinea for them. Good 
specimens alone will be acceptable. I 
suppose the habits of S. Trauniana are 
well known to entomologists; if not, it 
may be interesting to some to know that 
the pupce are to be found under the loose 
bark of beeches, adhering to the bark in 
liardish cocoons : they are now, some of 
them, half-formed, inclosing a fat white 
larva preparing to “ turn I bred some 
last year, and hope to do so again. My 
“pupa-digging,” with this exception, has 
been lost labour. The lateness of the 
season may be one reason, but I have 
never been successful in this county, 
although no pains have been spared. — 
— Rev. E. Horton, Wick , Worcester; 
Dec. 29. 
COLEOPTERA AND HyMENOPTF.RA. 
Duplicate Captures. — Having a few 
specimens to spare of Dasytes viridis, 
Malachius maryincltus , Melecla lucluosa 
and Anlhophora return , I shall be happy 
to forward them singly to entomologists 
willing to pay postage and send boxes. 
The Anlhophora are all males. — C. 0. 
Groom, 16, Flora Villas, Brighton; 
Dec. 26. 
Hemiptera. 
A Manual of British Bugs . — In the 
first volume of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ you 
had an article headed “ Who bids for 
the Bugs,” and in the ‘Annual’ for the 
present year you state that you have 
not had a single offer for them. Now, 
I must confess that, when I read this 
announcement, I was rather surprised. 
What could be the cause of the He- 
miptera not being studied? It could 
not be their want of beauty, for they 
are quite as pretty as the Coleoptera. 
It could not be because no one was 
aware of their existence, for who that 
has lived in London has not had them 
brought under his notice? Was it their 
smell? Where would you find a Co- 
leopterist who would draw back from 
a lot of moles hanging on a hedge, 
although the latter would smell infinitely 
worse than the former? Could it be the 
want of a work on the subject? This 
question was more than I could answer, 
for, among all the entomological works 
of whose existence I was cognisant, I 
could not think of one which treated 
exclusively of the Hemiptera. My in- 
quiries among my friends led to no- 
thing; not one of them was aware of the 
existence of such a work. My first idea 
was to write to you, requesting the in- 
sertion of a note in the ‘ Intelligencer,’ 
with a view to procure the publication of 
a ‘Manual of British Bugs;’ but then, 
like a bug-bear, rose the ghost of the 
‘Manual of British Beetles,’ and I 
thought that, if the united strength of 
the Coleopterists of Great Britain could 
not produce such a work, it would be 
perfectly hopeless to expect that you 
could get one on the Hemiptera, when 
apparently there was not even a collector 
ol that order to be found among the 
entomologists of this island. Still I 
think that something might be done, 
and if wc could only get a few energetic 
collectors distributed over the country 
