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summer — one on August 27th (a beautiful insect), flying over 

 scarlet geraniums; another on the 29th, on the same flowers 

 (a tattered specimen) ; and a tliird on Sept. 27tii, in a con- 

 servatory (a very good insect). At ivy, loo, amongst nume- 

 rous common insects, 1 was fortunate enough to secure one 

 specimen of Xanthia croceago and three of Phlogophora 

 empyrea. In conclusion, to stimulate pupa-digging, 1 may 

 mention that since September I have dug up between three 

 hundred and four hundred pupae, amongst them several of 

 Sphinx Ligustri, Smerinlhus Tiliae, S. ocellatus, S. Populi, and 

 Amphydasis betularia or A. prodromaria ; of which of these 

 two species the pupae are I am not sure, as the chrysalids 

 are so ranch alike ; I rather fancy of both, as some were 

 found at elm and others at oak trees. — {Rev.) H. J. White ; 

 November 4, 1868. 



Captures at Derwent Water. — I send you a list of insects 

 I have caught this summer at Derwent Water, Cumberland, 

 from June 25th to the end of August : — P^rebia Cassiope, 

 Ccenonympha Davus (common on one piece of peat moss), 

 Drepana falcataria, Thyalira Balis (came freely to sugar), Cy- 

 matophora duplaris, C. diluta, Acronycta leporina, A. Ligustri, 

 Mamestra furva, Celaena Haworthii (took several at sugar), 

 Agrotis Trilici, A. agathina, Triphajua fimbria (common at 

 sugar), Noctua glareosa, N. depuncta (one at sugar), Xanthia 

 flavago, Cirroedia xerampelina (one at sugar, and a gentleman 

 caught three or four by the shores of Derwent Water), Telhea 

 subtusa,PoliaChi,Epuuda viminalis (several at sugar), E. nigra 

 (three at sugar), Aplecla herbida, A. lincta, Hadena rectilinea 

 (one at sugar), Plusia bractea (one hovering over flowers), P. 

 Festucffi (one on the wing, June 26lh), P. Iota, P. pulchrina, 

 Ellopia fasciaria, Geomelra papilionaria, Fidonia piniaria. 

 Is not June 26th very early for Feslucae to be on the wing? 

 I caught it when taking Davus, on a small bit of swampy 

 ground. A gentleman found a pupa, not far from the same 

 place, which did not come out till the end of August, two 

 months later. — W. C. Marshall; Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 November 17, 1868. 



Entomological Notes from East Looe. — I have had three 

 specimens of the convolvulus moth this year, the first I have 

 ever procured here : two were caught in the same dwelling- 

 house ; one was put alive into a small box, and the other 



