Insects. 



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Capture of Lepidopterous Insects near Peterborough. I beg to offer you a list of 

 some diurnal and nocturnal Lepidoptera occurring in this neighbourhood, taken by 

 myself within the last two years, not including many common sorts. Some of those 

 enumerated may be thought too common to record, but having only tried the sugar 

 test two months, I cannot yet tell how numerous they may be in their respective sea- 

 sons. I forward the list, on account of the great pleasnre I have derived from seeing 

 in your pages captures made in other localities, leading me to suppose that a notice 

 of insects found here, howevever imperfect, may also be interesting to your readers : 

 if you can find room for it, and should desire further notes, I shall be happy to go on 

 with Geometra, and then with some of the other orders. 



Pieris Cratasgi. Caistor Hanglands. 

 Vanessa C. album. Grimeshaw-wood. 



Polychloros. 

 Hamearis Lucina. The Hanglands. 

 Thecla Pmni. The Hanglands. 



W. album. Westwood. 

 Pamphila Paniscus. The Hanglands. 

 Ino Statices. Bedford purlieus. 

 Anthrocera Filipendulae. Gardens. 

 Sesia bombyliformis. The Hanglands. 

 iEgeria vespiformis. Near Whittlesea 



Mere. 

 Cossus ligniperda. On willows. 

 Clostera curtula. 



reclusa. 

 Petasia Cassinea. 

 Pcecilocampa Populi. December. Near 



the town. 

 Gastropacha Quercifolia. The Mere. 

 Phragmatobia fuliginosa. Old Sulehay- 



wood. 

 Eyprepia Russula. Near Caistorfield. 



Plantaginis. The Hanglands. 

 Lithosia rubricollis. The Hanglands. 

 Nudaria mundana. At sugar. 

 Heliophobus Popularis. Attracted by 



light. 

 Agrotis suffusa. At sugar. 



Graphiphora augur. At sugar. 



plecta. Ditto. 



C. nigrum. Ditto. 



baja. Ditto. 



umbrosa. Ditto. 

 Caradrina trilinea. 

 Orthosia Lota. 



litura. At sugar. 

 Amphiphyra pyramidea. Ditto. 

 Cerigo texta. Ditto. 

 Lemuris typica. Ditto. 

 Triphaena iuterjecta. -Ditto. 



janthina. Ditto. 

 Xylina exoleta. Westwood. 



lithoxylea. At sugar. 

 Mamestra oleracea. Ditto. 



contigua. Garden. 



testacea. 

 Apamea fasciuncula. Grimeshaw-wood, 

 on Umbelliferae. 



latruncula. At sugar. 

 Acronycta Aceris. Bred. 



Ligustri. Bred. 

 Eremobia ochroleuca. Grimeshaw-wood. 

 Bryophila perla. On houses. 

 Thyatira derasa. Hedges. 

 Euclidia glyphica. Caistor Hanglands. 



Mi. Caistor Hanglands. 



radiola. Ditto. 



The following have been taken in this district by others . — Leucania obsoleta, at 

 sugar ; Polyommatus Arion, Barnwell- wold ; Papilio Machaon, the Mere ; Leuco- 

 phasia Sinapis, the Hanglands, — formerly plentiful, now scarce ; Apatura Iris, Monks- 

 wood, and the Hanglands. 



I have duplicates of several of the above, and should be happy to exchange with 

 tyros in Entomology, like myself, whose cabinets are not abundantly supplied, as I 

 cannot presume to offer any advantages to old hands, whose desiderata are " few and 

 far between." P.S. I find the sugar and beer to answer well, but better in open places 

 than in woods hitherto ; trees standing a little distance apart, in an old hedge-row, 



