2032 Insects. 



Zeuzera Msculi. July, on fagot stack. 



Notodonta ziczac, July, flyiug among willows. 



Lophopteryx camelina. July, flying among willows. 



Drymonia dodonea. June, on palings. 



Gastropacha quercifolia. June, flying. 



Triphcena fimbria. July, at sugar. 



Agrotis suffusa. August, at sugar. 



Polia tincta and herbida. June, at sugar. 



Acronycta Ligustri. June, at sugar. 



Thyatira derasa and batis. July, at sugar. 



Tethea fiavicornis. April, on birch twigs. 



Xanthia aurago. September, at sugar and on hops. 



Xanthia croceago. April, on sallows ; September, at sugar and on hops. 



Gortyna micacea. June, at sugar. 



Abrostola triplasia. June, at sugar. 



Pericallia syringaria. July, flying. 



Emmelesia decolorata and herbaria. June, by beating. 



Emmelesia heparala. July, flying. 



Minoa charophyllata. July, flying. 



Platypteryx lacertinaria. July, flying. 



Platypteryx lacertinaria var. cultraria. July, flying. 



Cilix compressa. June, flying. 



Paracolax nemoralis. June, by beating. 



The above is a list of some of the Lepidoptera which I have met with in this im- 

 mediate neighbourhood during the course of the present year. I have not been long 

 acquainted with the locality, but I have every reason to believe that diligent entomo- 

 logists would be amply repaid for their researches into its natural productions. I may 

 add that there are nearly 4500 acres of woodland in this parish alone, where I believe 

 the net of the entomologist has never been : how far it is worth the attention of ento- 

 mologists the foregoing list will in some measure testify. — James B. Ellman ; Battel, 

 October 22, 1847. 



Occurrence of Colias Edusa near Liverpool. — Two specimens of Colias Edusa have 

 been captured here this season ; one by a Mr. Canty, taken at New Brighton, 

 Cheshire ; and the other a fine male, captured by my foreman in Pegue Lane, near 

 my residence. The above are the only specimens known to have occurred within 

 thirty miles of Liverpool. — C. S. Gregson ; Rose Bank, Fletcher Place, Edge Lane, Li- 

 verpool, October 24, 1847. 



Capture of Vanessa Antiopa at Bishop's Auckland. — I have in my cabinet two per- 

 fect specimens of Vanessa Antiopa, both taken in September last near this place ; one 

 in the Bishop of Durham's garden, at Bishop's Auckland Castle ; the other at Tudloe, 

 about five miles to the north-east. — Joseph Duff; Bishop's Auckland, county of Dur- 

 ham, February 17, 1848. 



Capture of Vanessa Antiopa at Ponder's End, Enfield. — Early in September last 

 (being myself absent from home at the time), my wife observed what she at first con- 

 sidered to be a purple emperor flying in the garden : her first impulse was to rush 

 into the house for my net, and after a chase of nearly three hours, from its flying into 

 the neighbouring gardens, was rewarded for her perseverance by securing it. Upon 

 looking over my collection, and not finding a corresponding specimen, she did not, as 



