4184 Insects. 



seceding from the cause, every one should use increased exertions to 

 cultivate the science in himself and others. 



J. W. Douglas. 



Lee, Kent, November 3, 1853. 



List of Lepidoptera captured near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. 

 By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A. 



The readers of the ' Zoologist' have been made acquainted, through 

 the communications of Mr. Douglas, Mr. Stevens, and others, with 

 the entomological richness of the well-known Black Park, in the 

 county of Bucks. The following list of insects captured by me dur- 

 ing my residence of eighteen months at Halton, near Aylesbury, will 

 show that that part of the county is not at all inferior to the above- 

 mentioned locality. 



Polyommatus Argiolus. Scarce, in Beech Wood, May. 



Nemeobius Lucina. Abundant in Beech Wood, May. 



Arge Galataea. One, August 2. The capture of a single specimen 

 of this insect is strange, as, though very local, it is common where it 

 occurs. In Gloucestershire I found it, in some places, as abundant 

 as the common cabbage white. The above was the only specimen I 

 ever saw in Buckinghamshire. 



Sesia Fuciformis. One, May 26, border of Beech Wood. 



I have met with the empty pupa-cases of iEgeria Apiformis and M. 

 Bembiciformis sticking out from the trunks of trees, but never saw the 

 insects. 



Sphinx Convolvuli. One female, July 17, hovering over honey- 

 suckle. 



Lithosia rubricollis. Extremely common in Beech Wood. Pupse 

 in abundance under moss on decayed trees. This insect appears to 

 be subject, in an extraordinary degree, to the attacks of an Ichneu- 

 mon. I collected about 300 pupae last winter, and having distributed 

 a considerable number, I kept the remainder : of these, only eight 

 came to perfection, the rest producing only Ichneumons. 



Lithosia aureola. Scarce, in Beech Wood, May, 1852. 



„ griseola. Very common in hedges, and bred from larvae 

 found feeding on plantain, in June. 



