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poplar. It also feeds upon apple, crab, willow, and the various species of 

 sallow. My brother took it in great abundance a few years since in 

 Radnorshire, on crab in the hedges. I am compelled to differ from my 

 friend Mr. Greene as to its penchant for Ichneumons. I have taken it for 

 the last eight or nine years at least, but never yet found one stung. I 

 may remark as a curious fact that a few years since I had a brood of 

 eggs laid by a female S. ocellatus, of the union with a male S. populi. 

 I reared the larvae; the produce were every one genuine Ocellatus, without 

 the slightest cross of Populi. The parents were bred by my brother, and 

 were the only two insects in the breeding-box, so there could be no mistake. 

 (C.) 



19. S. populi. — Common. The perfect insect not unfrequently comes to 

 light. 



N.B. — I found a pupa of this insect this spring, (1857,) under the bark 

 of an old willow, nearly five feet from the ground; it was enclosed in a 

 cocoon of gnawed bark and rotten wood, similar to that of Acronycta 

 psi, Widens, and meyacephala. (C.) 



20. Anthrocera Jllipendulce. — Very common near Stowmarket. (B.) 



21. P. statices. — Extremely local. Confined to one corner of a marshy 

 meadow bordering upon Kesgrave Heath, about a mile and a half from 

 Playford. 



(To be continued.) 



ABSTRACTS FROM THE "SPECIES GENERAL DES 

 LEP1DOPTERES." PAR M. M. BOISDUVAL ET GUENEE. 



Part I. 



Translated, with remarks, from the "Noctuelites Par M. Guenee," by C. R. Bree, Esq. 



It is our intention in this and subsequent papers, to give our readers, 

 who may not have access to the original works, some knowledge of the 

 valuable labours of M. Guenee, probably the first of European lepidopter- 

 ists. M. Guenee's arrangement is that, which, by common consent, seems 

 to be adopted by entomologists in this country. Mr. Stainton has used 

 it in his "Manual;" and we understand that so soon as the "Geoinetridae" 

 is published, Mr. Doubleday intends to issue a second edition of his 

 "Synonymic List," founded on the elaborations of M. Guenee. In the 

 meantime we cannot do better than make ourselves acquainted as much 

 as possible with the works from which these classifications are taken. The 

 following is M. Guenee's general description of the Noctuce. — Ed. 



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