Insects. 1789 



Acronycta Salicis, Curtis. Is this distinct from A. rumicis ? I see no difference 

 except the darker colour. 



Cabera rotundaria. Some of my correspondents think that this and pusaria are 

 synonymous, but they are certainly quite distinct, rotundaria having the upper wings 

 more rounded, and the lines across them nearly confluent in the centre. 



Genus Peronea. Last season the Peroneae were very abundant. Some thousands 

 were taken at Hainault and Whittlebury Forests; among them several that some per- 

 sons think are distinct species. I believe, however, that they are only new varieties, 

 and that we have really but one exceedingly variable species of " raised buttons." 

 Those Peronea? without the "button," taken in Scotland by Mr. Weaver, will, I 

 think, be resolved into three or four species, though the varieties seem endless. 



Anacampsis nebulea. This species, I see, is often confounded with Malvella, but 

 it is very distinct both in its markings and habits. It is most nearly allied to betulea, 

 but it may be easily distinguished by a light-coloured spot near the extremity of the 

 costa. Sometimes there is another spot on the inferior edge immediately under this, 

 but it is not constant. The moth is very well figured in Wood's Index. I have taken 

 it only on Jerry's Hill, Putney Heath, on a bare place, where it gets up from among 

 the dry gravel and flies about at dusk, in April and May. — J. W. Douglas ; 19, Nel- 

 son Square, Peckham, May 5, 1847. 



Captures of Lepidoptera. — As I observe the kindness with which you admit into 

 your columns all information connected with the immediate subjects of your maga- 

 zine, I am induced to seud you a short minute of a few of the captures I made last 

 August, during an entomological excursion to Brockenhurst (New Forest), to Wey- 

 bridge, and to Greenhithe. 



Brockenhurst, August 27th to 30th. 



Polia occulta. At sugar. 



Stilbia anomolata. At rest on the seed-stalks of grass, on Brockenhurst Common 

 (only three females out of seventeen specimens). 



Segetia neglecta. On heath bloom and at sugar. 



Caradrina glareosa. On heath bloom. 



Peronea insularia. By beating. The other more common Peroneae I was too 

 early for. 



ISarrothripus degeneranus. By beating. 

 Leptogramma literana, squamana, tricolorana and fulvomistana. 

 Weybridge, August 3\st and September 3rd. 

 Agrotis agathina. Five, on the heath and at sugar. 



Segetia neglecta. At sugar. These specimens were not so large and fine as those 

 taken at the New Forest. 



Caradrina glareosa. At sugar. 



Pachycnemia Hippocastinaria. Flying over the heath in the evening. 



Crambus hamellus and latistrius. Beat out of the heath. 



Greenhithe, Darenth Wood, September 8th to 21st. 

 Charaas fusca. Nine, at sugar. 

 Xylina semibrunnea. At sugar. 

 Calocampa vetusta. At sugar. 



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