230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



contained a very great number, and to extract all the Hyme- 

 noptera. I found, while thus searching on one occasion, a 

 small chip-box, containing probably forty or fifty insects, 

 and written on the bottom of the box, " Longraont, Shrop- 

 shire ;" amongst them were six or seven specimens of Apate 

 capucina. On pointing this out to Mr. Hope he expressed 

 his satisfaction at the finding of the box, and he added, 

 " I thought I had lost it : those specimens I took all on one 

 morning in the forest." To the foregoing I will add that my 

 youngest son, Edgar Smith, in company with his eldest 

 brother, took a fine and perfect specimen of A. capucina on 

 the 21st of the present month ; it was running on the trunk 

 of a barked and felled oak in Bishop's Wood, Hampstead. 

 Surely this accumulation of evidence will prove sufficient to 

 warrant the removal of Apate capucina from the list of 

 doubtful Britishers. 



Frederick Smith. 

 British Museum. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



155. A List of Lepidoptera collected in Persia in 1859 — 

 62. — I have the pleasure to enclose you a list of Lepidoptera 

 captured by me in Persia : they were all captured in Irak 

 (part of the ancient Media) at an elevation of from three to 

 ten thousand feet above the sea : — 



Papilio JNl achaon and P. Podalirius. Common. 



Gouepteryx Cleopatra. 



Colias Edusa, C. Hyale, C. Europome, and the small va- 

 riety of each, if not a distinct species. 



Pieris Brassica?, P. Raps, P. Napi and P. Daplidice. 



Anthocharis Cardamines. 



Arge Galathea. 



Satyrus Megaira. (L. iEgeria I have never taken either in 

 India or Persia). 



S. Semele. Abundant. 



Chortobius Hero. Abundant. 



C. Pamphilus. Very common. 



Cynthia Cardui. Very common. 



Vanessa Atalanta. Scarce. 



