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its beak, projocting eyes, longish legs and general aspect, seemingly 

 indicating such a propensity : most of its congeners, although generally 

 regarded as being more particularly fond of vegetable juices, I believe 

 to be chiefly nourished by the juices of insects found on plants. The 

 sjjecies, which I have named Probmnoph dromedarius, from what most 

 probably is only a sexual character, is a native of W. Africa ; it is 

 depressed, of a pitchy-black colour, curiously and minutely subver- 

 rucose, irregularly and transversely striated ; edge of abdomen rufo- 

 ochraceous, terminal joint of the antennse yellow at the tip, a spot on 

 the under side of nasus yellow. The Rev. D. F. Morgan brought it 

 from Sierra Leone, and presented it to the British Museum. Its 

 length is 5 lines, and breadth 3^^ lines.— Jc^am White; July 30, 1842. 



222. Polia occulta. I captured a pair of this rare species here this 

 week ; a female on the 1st and a male on the 4th ; they were both 

 sucking sugar which I had placed on the trunks of some trees to at- 

 tract moths. — H. Doubleday ; Eppmff, August 6, 1842. 



223. Captures near Manchester. Anchylopera derasana ? I cap- 

 tured several specimens of this rare insect, on white moss. May 9th ; 

 as also Cnephasia lepidana, Xylina combusta. Abraxas ulmata, Ma- 

 mestra furva, Scotosia porphyrea, Electra imbutata, Drepana falcataria, 

 Ennomos flexula, and Tortrix galiana ; these also occurred in other 

 localities round this neighbourhood. July 24. Orthotajnia Bentley- 

 ana and Amphisa Gerningiana, in beautiful condition on Baguley 

 Moor ; the fonner insect was very variable both in size and colour, 

 and of the latter insect the females were so very rare that I found but 

 three in four journeys : they fly very seldom, usually concealing them- 

 selves amongst the heath, so that it is almost an impossibility to find 

 them. Polia Herbida : having procured a few eggs from two females, 

 captured in Dunham Park last year, the larvae raised from which lived 

 through the winter, we were enabled, by attending to Mr. Chant's 

 instructions, (Entomol. 229) to rear a few of the moths : oak not be- 

 ing so easy to procure, I fed them with black-thorn, and, on the buds 

 making their appearance, I supplied them with twigs, and found 

 that they fed only on the buds, and not on the bark like Alcis Robo- 

 raria. August 6. Hama connexa : I procured some fine specimens 

 of this local insect in Lunn Wood, near Bamsley ; and also a fine 

 pair of Psilura Monacha. — Robert S. Edleston ; Cheetham, Man- 

 chester, August 10, 1842. 



224. Note on Hipparchioi. The following Hipparchiae are from 

 Thome Moor : Davus, Semele, Megaera, Tithonus, Janira and Pam- 

 philus. The variety of Davus, I believe, has not been found there 



