5382 Insects. 



1. Hybridalis, Hub. 

 Noctuella, W. V. 

 Gen. 2. Scoparia, Haw. 

 Chilo, TV. 

 Eudorea, Curt., St., Dup., H-S. 



1. Ambigualis, Tr. 



Dubitalis, Hub. 207 ? Wood, 1442. 



2. Cembralis, Haw. 498, £7. 299, J*W, 1440. 



3. Pyralalis, W. V., Haw. 499, St. 299, WW, 1443. 

 Dubitalis, Germ. 



Tristrigella, St. 300, Wood, 1444. Var. 



4. Muralis, Curt. 4, pi. 170, St. 301, Wborf, 1447. 



5. Mercuralis, Lin., St. 302, W^borf, 1449. (Type). 



6. Crataegalis, £T£id. 



7. Resinalis, Haw., Woody 1448. 

 Mercurii, ifa#. 



Delunalis, Guen., olim. 



8. Coarctalis, J£e//. 

 Angustea, ££., Wood, 1450. 



9. Pallidulalis, S*. 300, Wood, 1445. 



C. R. Bree. 

 Stricklands, November 11, 1856. 



On Pupa Digging. By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M.A. 



Some years since a few remarks of mine on this subject were read 

 before the Entomological Society. I imagined the matter to have excited 

 little or no interest until I read, with, I trust, pardonable gratification, 

 the following passage in an article addressed to the ( Intelligencer,' 

 p. 74: — "Most of your readers will recollect a paper on digging for 

 pupae, which gave such an impetus to that mode of collecting." On 

 reading this paragraph I forthwith determined that I would, if spared, 

 write a few additional observations for the pages of the c Zoologist,' in 

 the hope that its readers might thereby be persuaded, in however 

 slight a degree, to apply themselves with zeal to the only method by 

 which their favourite study can be pursued during the long and dreary 

 months of winter and early spring. I am the more induced to take 

 this step, from the fact that I not unfrequently receive communications 

 from my entomological friends and correspondents, making grievous 

 complaints of their want of success ; some asking information as to the 

 "modus operandi," — all inquiring, " What is the cause of my want of 

 success ?" In reference to the first of these questions, some remarks 

 will be found at the close of this paper; in regard to the second, 



