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he was himself the captor. Be this as it may, Mr. Sealy and I, 

 in 1858, joined with two or three others, then at Cambridge, in 

 sending Mr. Farren on a collecting expedition to the New Forest, 

 Portland, and elsewhere, which resulted in the capture of a 

 specimen of L. dumerilil, which fell to my lot on the division of 

 the spoil. To the best of my recollection it was the only 

 specimen taken in 1858, and it has ever since been in my 

 possession, but unfortunately is in poor condition. — J. W. 

 Dunning; 12, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, February, 1885. 



LuPERiNA DUMERiLii. — I notice in last month's ' Entomolo- 

 gist ' (Entom. xviii. 54) that Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson asks for 

 confirmation of the capture of Luperina dumerilii. I am pleased 

 to be able to give him the information that in September, 1858, 

 in company with Mr. A. F. Sealy, I took two specimens in the 

 South of England ; one of these was in Mr. Sealy's collection, the 

 other went to that of Mr. Frederick Bond. The next yea,Y I took 

 three more in the same locality ; one I gave to my friend Alfred 

 Fryer, which I believe is still in his cabinet ; I forget where the 

 other two went to, but I think one went to the Eev. H. Burney. 

 — W. Farren; 14, King's Parade, Cambridge. 



Lepidoptera at Light in 1884. — Seeing several letters in 

 your columns on the above subject, I may state that my brother 

 and I took at light last summer, at the under-mentioned address 

 (by simply placing an ordinary lamp on a table next a back 

 window overlooking the garden), seventy-five species of Macro- 

 Lepidoptera, including Smerlnthus popiili, Nonagria geminipuncta, 

 Dipterygia scahriuscula {pinastri), Neuronia popularis, Mamestra 

 sordicla (anceps), Apamea gemina, A. ophiogramma, Caradrina 

 morpheus (very abundant), C. alsines, C. taraxaci (hlanda), Agrotis 

 tritici, Hadena trifoUi [chenopodii) , Plusia chrysitis, Catocala 

 nupta, Epione apiciaria, Melan'qjpe rivata, Cidaria truncata 

 (russata) var. comma-notata, &c.— E. B. Bishop; 3, Primrose 

 Terrace, George Lane, Woodford, Essex, January 24, 1885. 



The Urticating Hairs op Lepidoptera.— As this subject 

 seems to have aroused some interest, I may mention that I have 

 experienced the disagreeable symptoms described by Mr. South 

 from handling empty cocoons of Porthesia similis [chrysorrhoea), 

 which I found on a fence at Beckenham, on September 25th, 1880. 

 Now as these cocoons had probably been empty and exposed to 



