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seem the best, and the side sheltered from the wind succeeds better than if exposed 

 to the wind, and as much facing the west as possible. I wish the greatest prosperity 

 to your journal. — John Whitwell ; Long Causeway, Peterborough, Sept. 16, 1844. 



Captures of Lepidopterous Insects in the Neiv Forest. On the 14th of last Septem- 

 ber, I started in company with my two friends, Mr. Grant and Mr. Sheppard, for a ten 

 days' excursion to the New Forest, full of hope and expectation of the grand captures 

 we intended to make, especially amongst the Peroneae ; and considering, perhaps, the 

 very dry and unproductive season, and the prevalence of easterly winds when there, I 

 must not, I suppose, complain of the captures that fell to my lot. Beating for buttons 

 is no sinecure, every day, from nine in the morning till five in the afternoon, with a 

 thick stick, like a broom-handle (as a thinner one is of no use, that being knocked to 

 pieces in a few hours), and out again at six, sugaring the trees, and sometimes not 

 returning to the house till eleven or twelve at night. At the sugar I met with the 

 following : — 



Agrotis aequa, male and female Agrotis puta, wasted 



Charseas nigra, male Polia seladonia, some very fine and dark 



fusca, female Orthosia flavilinea 



Caradrina glareosa, female litura 



The above four species, including one lunosa 



aequa taken on the evening of the 17th, Charaeas cespitis, males flying round lamp ; 

 all in fine condition besides many other common autumnal 



Segetia neglecta, mostly wasted species. 



Agrotis suffusa, in plenty 



The first two or three nights, moths were in tolerable plenty at the sugar, after 

 that they became scarce, the wind changing from south-west to north-east. By beat- 

 ing, I took the following species : — 



Peronea cristana Sarrothripus ramosanus 



cristalana undulanus 



Desfontainiana llicanus, and varieties 



consimilana Leptogramina irrorana 



Bentleyana squamana, and all the other varieties 



insulana Anacampsis Lyellella 



striana Tinea semifulvella 



brunneana Gracillaria sulphurella 



spadiceana Plutella scabrella, in plenty, but wasted ; 



vittana &c. &c. 



fulvovittana 



ruficostana, and a few other varieties. 

 I met with very few Coleoptera : the lateness of the season, combined with the 

 great drought, was no doubt the cause. Platypus cylindrus, Sylvanus unidentatus, 

 Elater sanguineus, and Bitoma crenata ; the latter, in plenty, were about the best. — 

 Samuel Stevens ; 38, King-street, Covent Garden, January 13, 1845. 



Captures of Lepidopterous Insects in Scotland. I beg to hand you a list of some 

 of the rarer Lepidoptcra, which I captured during the past summer, in Scotland. 

 llipparehiaMelampus. Kinloch llannoch, Hepialus Velleda. lnverary and Perth- 

 Perthshire, shire. 

 Blandina. Ditto, and Isle of Arran. Clostera reclusa. Ben-Nevis and Pcrth- 

 Polyommatus Artaxerxcs, Perthshire. shire. 



