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p. 406, together with this beetle and many other interesting insects, 

 among others a seemingly new species of Paussus, near P. Klugii, 

 were lately brought to this country by the Rev. D. F. Morgan, the 

 late indefatigable colonial chaplain at Sierra Leone, who, by three 

 valuable presentations of insects to the British Museum, has very ma- 

 terially increased the value of the collection. — Id. 



Polia occulta. I captured a pair of this rare species here this week, 

 a female on the 1st, and a male on the 4th ; they were both sucking 

 sugar which I had placed on the trunks of some trees to attract moths. 

 — H. Douhleday ; Epping, August 6, 1842. 



Captures near Guildford. 



Thecla Betulae Tiphia femorata Cryptocephalus sericeus, 



Polyommatus Adonis Chalcis MacLeanii (a purple variety). 



Cynthia Cardui Gomplioderus rufus Dasypoda Swammerdam- 



Myrmecina Latreillii Cryptocephalus hilineatus Sphegina nigra [ella 



J. F. Stephens ; Vicarage, Shalford, near Guildford, Aug. 21, 1842. 



Lehia Crux-minor. In brushing for Diptera, &c. in the woods at 

 Unsted, near Godalming, on the 27th instant, I caught a single spe- 

 cimen of this very rare insect, which evidently flew into my net ; it 

 was very active with its wings, and required some little dexterity to 

 secure it. — Id. 



Capture of Catocala Fi'axini at Hammersmith. I had the gra- 

 tification of taking a specimen of this rare and magnificent insect 

 in my own garden, on Saturday evening last the 3rd instant, in fine 

 condition. It was a beautiful sight to see him feasting on the sweets 

 that I had provided for him, on the trunk of an apple tree, raising his 

 wdngs sometliing after the manner of a butterfly. The Catocalae ap- 

 pear to be veiy fond of the sugar, for I very frequently meet with 

 Nupta, and I have a specimen in my cabinet of Fraxini that was 

 found by a relative in a bottle containing beer and sugar, that was 

 placed against a wall to catch the wasps, in October, 1838, near 

 Arundel in Sussex. — Samuel Stevens ; 38, King Street, Covent Gar- 

 den, Septemher bth, 1842. 



Capture of Colias Hyale and Argyn7iis Lathonia. On the 3rd of 

 September I captured two of our rarest butterflies — Colias Hyale and 

 Argynnis Lathonia, — in less than ten minutes. C. Hyale was taken 

 about two miles and a half fi'om Lavenham, on the Long Melford road. 

 It is the third specimen I have taken in this locality, and was making 

 its morning repast from the flowers of the autumnal hawkbit and dan- 

 delion, and was enclosed under the net while feeding on the blossom 

 of the latter plant: there were many fine fields of clover in this neigh- 



