804 Insects. 



last number of * The Zoologist' (Zool. 736), announcing the capture of this tine 

 insect in Lancashire, induces me to mention that a specimen was taken in this island 

 last summer, at Winford, I believe in June, by a farmer, who gave it to Mr. Robert 

 Loe, an ingenious blacksmith, at Newchurch, and a good practical ornithologist, from 

 whom I received it ; the:upper wings a good deal rubbed by unskilful handling, and 

 subsequent attempts at setting. The Isle of Wight possesses, I believe, all the Bri- 

 tish Sphingida?, excepting S. Pinastri, Deilephila Euphorbia?, and perhaps D. Celerio, 

 for though I have seen no specimen of the latter, nor heard of its capture in the 

 island, I can scarcely believe it to be really wanting, from its occurrence in so many 

 places along the south coast of England, as Brighton, Arundel, &c. A splendid 

 example of the rare, and I believe adventitious, Daphnis Nerii, is in the collection of a 

 lady in this town, taken by a boy at Sandown, about the year 1833 or 1834, when 

 many individuals occurred at Southampton, Dover, in Devonshire, and other parts of 

 the southern counties of England. — William, Arnold Bromfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 

 October 7, 1844. 



Note on the occurrence of the Death's Head Hawk Moth near Sudbury. Six cater- 

 pillars of Acherontia Atropos have been taken this autumn in Sudbury and its neigh- 

 bourhood, two of which have come into my possession : the first retired into the earth 

 about a fortnight since, but the other is still feeding on the leaves of the potato. — 

 W. Gaze; Ballingdon, Sudbury, October 18, 1844. 



Note on the capture of Lasiocampia Trifolii. I took one specimen of the above 

 rare moth, on the wing, at New Brighton, Cheshire, on the 17th of last month, flying 

 in company with Agrotis valligera, about nine o'clock at night ; it was very cold 

 and windy at the time. I have seen three others this season, but the whole of the 

 month was one continued storm here, without even one night fit for entomological 

 pursuits. — C. S. Gregson; 60, MilLstreet, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Sept. 26, 1844. 



Note on the capture of Lepidopterous Insects at Black Park, Buckinghamshire. 

 Having since the beginning of last June paid eight visits to this interesting locality, 

 I am, with the assistance of two or three of my friends, enabled, I think, to send to 

 ' The Zoologist' a tolerably complete list of the productions of this hitherto almost 

 untried locality. The park is composed principally of large and fine-grown pine 

 trees, interspersed with larches, oak, beech, birch, &c. ; and in some parts the ground 

 is covered with heath and fern. It is private property, and collectors will do well to 

 obtain permission previously to going there. 



Melitaea Selene Lophopteryx camelina, larvae, August 



Argynnis Paphia, abundant Petasia cassinea, larvae, June 



Limenitis Camilla. This graceful but- Psilura Monacha 



terfly I understand is very abundant Dasychira pudibunda 



here some seasons Colocasia Coryli 



Thecla Quercus Porthesia chrysorrhaea 



Polyommatus Argiolus Euthemonia russula 



Hepialus hcctus Fumea nitida <?, and $?, larva. 



Cossus Lignipeida Callimorpha rosea 



Zeuzera iEsculi Lelhosia Aureola 



( \o tem leclusa, larva?, August Helvola ^,and $?, the lattersexhas 



Stauropus Fagi, fairs', August; imago, never, I believe, been taken be- 



. I unc lore in this country, and at first, 



donta dromedaritti by some, was presumed a new 



