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7. Boletohia fuUginaria at Clapham. — I have to record 

 the capture of a specimen of this xaxe Geometra in a garden 

 at Clapham on the 8th inst. It was taken by Mr. WilUam 

 Dorking, of Battersea, who disturbed it in moving some 

 sash-frames. A quantity of decaying wood, in which the 

 larva had doubtless fed, was lying close by. The specimen, 

 which is slightly damaged, is now in my cabinet. — Trovey 

 Black more ; TJie Hollies, Wandsworth, July 19, 1864. 



8. Dosithea ehurnata at Bangor. — I have the pleasure 

 to record the capture, on the lllh and 13th inst., of four 

 specimens (pairs) of Dosithea eburnata (Hlibner's Acidalia 

 contiguaria), at the same spot at Bangor, N. Wales, where I 

 took that in July, 1862, already recorded in the ' Zoologist' 

 of that year. They appeared to be amongst elder, though 

 many other plants on which they might have fed were equally 

 abundant. Each of the females supplied me with a few eggs 

 of a reddish yellow colour, tough, detached. These hatched 

 on or about the 21st instant, and are now in the hands of my 

 friends Mr. Greening and Mr. Cooper, who will try to rear 

 them ; but as yet they are too small for description. — 

 B. Kendrick ; Warrington, July 28, 1864. 



9. Eupithecia suhciliata at Denbigh. — I may at the same 

 time mention the capture of Eupithecia subciliata at Den- 

 bigh on the 7th instant ; I saw several others, but could only 

 get one. — Id. 



10. Acidalia riibricata at Brandon, in Suffolk. — I was so 

 fortunate last Wednesday, the 27th of July, as to take nine 

 specimens of Acidalia rubricata; some of them were females, 

 and one of these has had the goodness to lay a few eggs, 

 which have been committed to the care of the Rev. J. Hel- 

 lins, in the hope of his being able to rear them. — ■ Frederick 

 Bond ; 59, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, July 29, 1864. 



11. ^^ Forty Thousand Pounds'' worth of Bulterjiiesr — On 

 reading over the ' Entomologist' for August, I see, at page 

 56, -that you reprint from the ' Daily News' an article stating 

 that 12,000,000 butterflies have been caught this year in the 

 canton of Basle (Switzerland), and that the Government has 

 paid the catchers the sum of 1,000,000 fs. Now, as long as 

 I saw this statement only in the newspapers I had no 

 objection to it, as when there is no news something must be 

 done to fill up the columns ; but seeing it in a scientific 



