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 CAPTURES OP LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY ROBERT S. EDLESTOX, ESQ. 



Erehia Cassiope. — I captured several specimens on Sty Head, near Keswick, 

 on the 2oth. of June: this species varies considerably. 



Crambas Lapponlcellus occurred in some plenty on the summit of Skiddaw, 

 but few fine. I was amused at the highest point to see a very fine Pontia 

 Brassicce fly past in first-rate style. 



Ephippiphora Turbidana. — Several specimens taken near Manchester, end 

 of June, secreted in the dry leaves of Tussila(jo Petasitis. 



Plusia Bractea. — This splendid Moth has occurred in tolerable abundance 

 near Macclesfield. They are taken at night on honey-suckles in July. Some 

 of the specimens have a bright yellow fungus, hatchet-shape, about one-sixteenth 

 of an inch in length, growing out of the eyes, giving the insect a strange 

 appearance. I do not remember observing anything of the sort previously in 

 my collecting. 



Arctia Caja. — I possess a fine bred variety; upper wings all chocolate, the 

 lower wings black, usual black spots shew through in pta-ple. I bred a male 

 this season — lower wings are dissimilar, the right side being nearly suflFused 

 with black, and a small space in orange; the left side less sufi"used, and more 

 orange. 



(Ecophora Curtisella — I met with this species in great abundance, in July, 

 on Broughton Park palings — all the varieties from black and white to jet 

 black. 



Smerinthus populi. — A beautiful variety of this species was bred here this 

 season; the whole of the insect being suffused with the pinky hue, seen on 

 the wings of Ocellatus. 



Manchester, August oth., 1853. 



A BOTANICAL RAMBLE ALONG 

 THE BEACH FROM BRIGHTON TOWARDS SHOREHAM. 



r.Y J. E. SMITH, ESQ. 



C Continued from page 2o0. j 



Liquorice is obtained from the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra, not a nativ^e of 

 this country, though Astrnlagus glycyphyllus, (the Sweet INIilk-Vetch, or Wild 

 Liquorice,) is not uncommon in calcareous soils, and contains a considerable 

 quantity of sweet juice in its roots and leaves. The manna alluded to is, 

 derived from a plant of this order that grows in Persia; but the manna of 

 Mount Sinai is obtained from a variety of Tamarix gallica, a shrub which 

 is very common in the squares of Brighton, and occasionally as a fence. You 

 may have observed it at Hove and many other places on the coast; it is a 

 doubtful native, and belongs to the order Tamaricaceee. If we now go out 



