112 Insects. 



I have before said that Zinken evidently did not know that his 

 insect was the Erycina Curius of Godart, but imagined it to be a 

 perfectly new insect. This is the more probable, as many of the in- 

 sects described in this paper belong to old and well-known species, 

 to which he has given new names. 



London, February, 1843. Edward Doubleday. 



Note on Lepidopterous Insects captured at Manchester. With the 

 assistance of a few friends I am enabled to send you a list of the Le- 

 pidoptera that have been captured within fifteen miles of Manchester, 

 and hope other entomologists will favor us with a list of their Fauna. 

 That local lists are highly interesting and useful to an entomologist, 

 needs no proof. 



The diurnal Lepidoptera, on the average, are very rare ; such spe- 

 cies as Gonepteryx Rhamni, Argynnis Paphia, Arg. Adippe, Vanessa 

 C-album, Van. Polychloros, Thecla Quercus, Polyommatus Alsus and 

 Pol. Argiolus, so common a little further south, are here seldom seen, 

 but why it is so I cannot account for. Hipparchia Davus, met with 

 in abundance on the mosses, is very variable ; Hip. Typhon and Hip. 

 Polydama are varieties of this insect. Polyommatus Argus is local 

 on Chat-moss, and is also variable, some specimens approaching very- 

 near to Pol. Agestis. Again, Bupalus favillacearius is scarcely half 

 the size, and considerably darker than those captured in Hampshire, 

 for specimens of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Dale of 

 Dorset : the same is the case with several other insects taken here. 



The mosses are the favourite localities with us entomologists ; some 

 of our rarest insects have been captured on them. Ashton-moss is 

 cultivated, aud White-moss is in process ; but fortunately for the 

 " brethren of the net," many years must elapse ere such extensive 

 tracts as Chat and Carrington are drained. — Robert S. Edleston ; 

 Cheetham, Manchester, January 17, 1843. 



[We doubt the expediency of printing lists of insects unaccompanied by notes, be- 

 cause the majority of the species thus enumerated occur in every county of the Unitedj 

 Kingdom, and the lists therefore want to be carefully looked through, and the univer-| 

 sally distributed species struck out, before they can be made useful. Mr. Edleston'sj 

 list contains a number of rarities, for instance, Deilephila Galii and Deil. Livornica,] 

 a few words about which would be more interesting than a column of such names as] 

 Pontia Brassicce, Rapae, Napi, &c. In this however our only desire is to consult thej 

 wishes of our correspondents, and we hope those distinguished entomologists whose] 



