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I think preferable to that for killing Noctuae, but no plan can be better for killing the 

 large Bombi. They are dead in a fraction of the time required by the method recom- 

 mended by Mr. Curtis in a previous number, and are in the finest condition for being 

 set immediately. — Id. 



Method of employing Chloroform in killing Insects. — I last year found chloroform 

 very useful for killing insects for specimens ; but how to use it conveniently was a de- 

 sideratum with me, until the idea lately occurred of constructing a collecting-bottle 

 with a common lamp-glass, having a perforated septum, resting upon the shoulder 

 formed by the reduced calibre of the longer part, and having a cork fitted to each end, 

 covering the corks first with ox-bladder, and then with chamois leather, to render them 

 more impervious. Tn the larger and shorter portion of the glass I propose to place a 

 piece of sponge having chloroform in it, which, on evaporating, will pass through the 

 cribriform plate. Bruised laurel-leaves might be placed in the cavity at the bottom 

 of the bottle in place of chloroform, if found to be more convenient. — Chas. Barron; 

 Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, March 3, 1852. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in the neighbourhood of Putney, Surrey. — The following 

 extracts from the records of my captures of Lepidoptera in this most accessible locality 

 may not be without utility, more particularly to collectors resident in London : — 



Orgyia Gouostigma, male and female, June 23, reared from larvae taken on Wim- 

 bledon Common from sallow. 



Leucania straminea, July, river-bank, at sugar. 



Nonagria despecta, July 6 to August 9, Barnes Common, flying over rushes. 



^„ fulva, September 8, Wimbledon Common, flying. 



Apamea Ophiogramma, July 14 — 26, among willows, flying and at sugar. 



Noctua Hebraica, September 8, Wimbledon Common, flying. 



Agrotis valligera, August 14 and 16, Barnes Common and garden. 



Xanthia aurago, September 25 to October 11, Wimbledon Park, at sugar. 

 „ citrago, September 6 to October 7, Wimbledon Park, at sugar. 



Hadena contigua, June, reared from larva? found on sallow, Wimbledon Common. 



Calocampa vetusta and exoleta, October 7 and 11, Wimbledon Park, at sugar. 



Dypterygia Pinastri, June 22 to July 25, Collis' orchard, at sugar. 



Xylina Khizolitha, October 4 and 7, Wimbledon Park, at sugar. 



Orthosia macilenta, October 6 — 11, Wimbledon Park, at sugar. 



Pyralis glaucinalis, July 4 to September 4, Collis' orchard, at sugar. 

 „ fimbrialis, August 20 to September 4, Collis' orchard, at sugar. 



Cledeobia angustalis, July 10 to August 7, flying in the day-time and evening, 

 Barnes Common. 



Nola cristulalis, May, Koehampton Lane, on palings. 



Acasis viretata, ditto. 



Eupithecia venosaria, May, Putney-park Lane, on palings. 

 „ subnotaria, July 15, garden, flying. 



Acidalia subsericeata, June, Barnes Common, flying. 



Chesias obliquaria, May 15 — 29 and July 21, Barnes Common, out of broom- 

 bushes by smoking, and on the wing. 



Toririx spectrana, June 30 to July 16, Barnes Common, flying over marshy ground. 



Peronea rufana, Hastiana and tristana, October 20 to November 9, Wimbledon 

 Common, by smoking bushes. 



