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Captures of Lepidoptera at Brighton. — Neuria Saponariae has been rather abundant 

 here during the last week or two : T never before met with it as a common insect. 

 Nearly all that I have taken of this species at sugar have been females, and those 

 which I have taken at light have been males. Can you account for this fact? I have 

 taken a single specimen of Agiotis cinerea, at sugar, on June 25th. — John N. 

 Winter ; 28, Montpellier Road, July 8, 1856. — [Intelligencer.] 



Captures of Lepidoptera in L856. — The following are the choicest of my captures 

 dnring the present summer : — 



Biston prodromaria. Several specimens. 



Aleucis pictaria. Mothed on Dartford Heath, April 12th . 



Ennomos illustraria. Two specimens, one of them flying round a lamp near the 

 Erith Station, April 26th. 



Notodonta carmelita. Several at West Wickham, from May 4th to 15th, on 

 trunks of birch-trees. 



„ dictseoides. Two, May 4th and 9th, on trunks of birch-trees. 



„ Chaonia. A single specimen, taken May 11th, on the trunk of an oak. 



„ trepida. A single specimen, taken May 15th, on the trunk of a birch. 



Ceropacha ridens. Several, May 1 1th. 



Ptilodontis palpina. A single specimen, May 20th. 



I have bred the undermentioned species from the larvae : — 



Ennomos illustraria. Several. 

 „ lunaria. Several. 



Notodonta dictseoides. Several. 

 „ dodonaea. Several. 



Stauropus Fagi. 



Orgyia gonostigma. Several. 



Cucullia Asteris. Several. 



Cabera rotundaria. Several. 



Notodonta dodonaea, a beautiful variety, from pupae raked. 

 „ dictaea. Several, from pupae raked. 



Ptilodontis palpina. 



Taeniocampa munda, and others too numerous to mention. — F. O. Standish ; 2, 

 Alfred Cottages, Warner Road, Camberwell, July, 1856. 



Cabera rotundaria. — I have bred several of this insect, which is undoubtedly a dis- 

 tinct species. It is a smaller insect than C. pusaria ; the wings are rounder and 

 fuller, and the two lines near the base of the wing nearly meet. I possess specimens 

 that vary in the closeness of the lines, but still they are readily distinguished from the 

 common white wave: I have had a pair in copulct, and trust to have the larva booked. 

 — Id. 



Notodonta dietceoides, N. dromedarius, and N. camelina. — I am breeding now all 

 three of the species named, from larvae I took last autumn, although I bred some in 

 April last: surely they have made their appearance too late (July 22nd) to allow of 

 an autumnal brood.— Id. 



Retinia sylvestrana. — I have bred several of this species from larvae, taken in the 

 young shoots of the stone pine (Pinus pinea). — Id. 



Capture of two nciv British Tinece at Box Hill. — I have taken several fine speci- 

 mens of Laverna conturbatella and Raschkiella off the Epilobium angustifolium 

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