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without the necessity of supposing the 
insect to be double-brooded. It also 
confirms my conjecture that it should be 
looked for in the company of Euphra- 
sy ne rather than of Selene, which is 
later. — R ev. B. Smith, Marlow ; Jan. 16. 
Viva la Dia. — As I know Bucking- 
hamshire very well, and have both resided 
and collected there a good deal, I can at 
once set Mr. Scott’s mind at rest as to 
the probability of Fritillaries being taken 
in gardens. Buckinghamshire is thickly 
interspersed with beech woods, where 
A. Selene and Eupkrosyne literally swarm, 
and, as I can testify, are not infre- 
quent visitors to the adjoining gardens. 
— Rev. H. Haepur Ceewe, Stowmarket ; 
Jan. 18. 
M.GuenSe’s new Volume. — Amongst 
the “larvae ignotae” in M. Guenee’s 
new volume, I find, in addition to those 
mentioned by Mr. Stainton, Tephrosia 
extersaria and Ephyra trilinearia. The 
larva of the former insect feeds on birch 
in September. I beat two specimens in 
1856, and bred the perfect insect June 6, 
1857. I very much regret that I did not 
take down an accurate description of the 
larva at the time. It very much re- 
sembles the larva of E. angularia, but is 
paler in colour and of course smaller. 
The pupa is so like that of C. dilutata 
that you can scarcely distinguish them. 
The larva of Ephyra trilinearia is red- 
dish brown with yellow markings, and 
very much resembles that of H. de- 
foliaria : it feeds on beech in August, 
September and October, and is very 
common in some parts of Buckingham- 
shire. The pupa, which is a very pale 
brown, in colour resembles that of M. 
stellalarum, and streaked with black, is 
suspended like the butterflies of the 
genus Pieris. I once bred H. abruptaria, 
but it is eight or ten years since, and I 
almost forget the larva : it fed on rose, 
and, as far as I remember, resembled 
H. defoliaria, but was almost destitute 
of yellow markings. — Ibid. 
Correction of an Error . — I find that 
what I called Trauniana, in the ‘ Intel- 
ligencer,’ p. 116, is now called Regiana , 
and I have also discovered that what I 
took for a beech tree was a sycamore. 
Will you please to correct this error, and 
also to announce to those applicants for 
Parisiana who have not received an 
answer that my stock is exhausted ? — 
Rev. E. Horton, Wide, Worcester; 
Jan. 24. 
Lilhocolletis Robiniella . — The notice 
on this species has much interested me, 
but I cannot fancy that “ exquisitely 
beautiful” would be said of so dull- 
looking a species as Acaciella, and I 
therefore expect that Robiniella will be 
something very different. 1 once found 
the larva of Illunaria on the Robinia : 
I have seen Argiolus frequently visit its 
flowers, and once found the larva of that 
species crawling down the stem of the 
tree ; probably it had fed on the blossoms. 
— Peofessob Zeller, Gross Glogau ; 
Jan. 20. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
Recent Captures . — On the 12lh inst. 
I visited Hampstead. I took at roots of 
trees on the Heath, Dromius foveolus and 
Tachyporus chrysomelinus ; under bark 
Helops slriatus; and in dung (not bur- 
rowing in the earth) Aphodius scyba- 
larius. In Turner’s Wood I fouud 
among moss, on the trunks of trees, 
Anchomenus mceslus, Bembidium 4-macn- 
latum, Phytonomus lurdarius and porcatus, 
Cryptophagus Ulicis, IJaltica nemorum 
and Lepulii. Most of these were found 
by examining the moss at home over a 
sheet of white paper. On the 15th I 
turned my steps towards Putney. In 
Walnut-Tree Walk, Brompton, I took 
Crioceris Asparagi, a Tomicus and 
Orchesl.es Alni hybernating under bark. 
Under the bark of willows near the tow- 
ing-path between Putney and Hammer- 
smith, Dromius 4-no talus, Nitidula grisea, 
Haltica helxines, Pkcedon Vitellirue and 
