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 CAPTURES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



CY ROBERT S. EDLESTON, ESQ. 



In April, at Prestwick Wood, I captured Talccjwria inconspicuella, Stainton, 

 in great abundance: tliis is a distinct species. 



In June, two of our collectors visited "Burnt Wood," near the Whitmore 

 Station, Staffordshire, and captured Melitoea Athalia in abundance, and several 

 specimens of Eacosmia undularia, Macaria iiotataria, and Hypena crassalis. 



At the end of June, Bleackley made an excursion often days to Brockenhurst, 

 in the New Forest, and captured at Sugar upwards of three hundred 3Iyth- 

 imna Turca, two hundred CJeoceris 00, and two Diphthera Orion. On the bole 

 of an oak he captured a fine 9 of Heterogena asclhis; the larvae of Lithosia 

 quadra exceedingly numerous, spinning their cocoons on the oaksj also a few 

 of JPdlura monacha. 



On the New Brighton and Lytham coasts, a great number of the larva 

 of Lasiocampa Trifolii were taken in the evening, feeding upon star grass; 

 some two or three hundred Moths have been reared: the virgin ^ attracts 

 the males in abundance at night. Leucania liltoralis is exceedingly abundant 

 on these coasts, and Adehia precox not uneom.mon. 



Gortyna Petasitis occurred last month in this neighbourhood in great plenty; 

 the jVIoths are taken on the wing at dusk, in places where Tussilago Petasites, 

 (butter bur,) abounds; Heliophohus popnlaris and Gharceas cespitis were also 

 captiu'ed. On the moors near Bolton, Cidaria Erutm'ia occurs in plenty, resting 

 on the stone walls. 



Epunda liehenea is most abundant at Lytham; they are captured soon 

 after dusk, by examining the dead branches of furze bushes with a lantern^ 

 and are almost invariably found on the lowest branches. 



At Chesterfield, Pterophorus osteodactylus, Lampronia luzella, and Semioscopis 

 Avellanella, are not rare. 



During a recent visit by Herr Zeller to my friend Mr. H. Doubleday, ho 

 kindly submitted to him drawings of a Xoctua in my cabinet, named in 

 London as ruticilla. Zeller says it is not that species, and at present 

 unnamed. He possesses a specimen of his own capturing, a charming Tineay 

 which has been in my cabinet some time, under the manuscript name of 

 Elerjantella, which he recognised as the Tinea Biganella Lodofisky described 

 in the "Moscow Natural History Magazine" in 1830. 



Cucullia Ghamomill(je : a few specimens of this rare insect were taken in 

 April last by Dr. Nelson and Mr. Gregson in the neighbourhood of Lytham, 

 resting on palings near fruit trees. Next season will no doubt make it a 

 common insect, a fate to which many rare species have recently fallen. 



Barrow Hill, Strangeways, Mancliester, Scptemher Zrd., 1852. 



