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25. Singular mode of capturing Nod lice. — I would recom- 

 mend to your readers a plan, by means of which I have cap- 

 tured many good Lepidoptera, as will be seen by the list I send 

 herewith. It is simply to lay a sugar-hogshead, which has 

 just been emptied, and to which of course some small quantity of 

 sugar will still adhere, in an open space near a garden or field. 

 In the course of a night or two it will be visited by numbers 

 of Noctuae, amongst which will not unfrequently be found some 

 of the rarer species. The Noctuae continue to visit it, parti- 

 cularly on moist evenings, as long as it retains any saccharine 

 matter. 



Yours, &c. 



E. DOUBLEDAY. 



Epping, Nov. 21, 1832. 



26. Genus Amphimalla. ( Vide ante, p. 84.) — Sir, So far from 

 suppressing my learned friend, M. Latreille's, genus Amphi- 

 malla (which may be termed a sub-genus), I have given the 

 characters of it under my third division. Vol. IX. p. 406. On 

 an inspection of the foreign species of Melolonthidce , the 

 antenntie will be found to vary so much, that if generic 

 names be given where the antennae differ, it must be done to a 



