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dropped through the quill. The other vial should be made very strongly, well corked, 

 and three parts filled with spirit: common whisky is the best spirit; pure alcohol in- 

 jures the colours of beetles, and gin makes them sticky. 



" A digger is another useful instrument : it is simply a piece of round iron, about 

 fifteen inches long, bent round at one end, and furnished with a wooden handle at the 

 other. This serves to rip the bark off dead trees, and to dig at the roots of living ones 

 for chrysalides. 



" Quills cut off close to the feather are very useful for bringing home minute in- 

 sects of all classes. The aperture should be most carefully corked, the corks being cut 

 expressly for the purpose, and should be of sufficient length to go half an inch into 

 the quill, and thus not liable to come out in the pocket. 



" Finally, pill-boxes, obtainable of any druggist, complete the outfit of the entomo- 

 logist. There is now an excellent kind manufactured, the tops and bottoms of which 

 never come out : it is important also to avoid sitting on pill-boxes, as it must interfere 

 with their structure : to avoid this, the author carries them in a breast pocket." — Fa- 

 miliar Introduction to the History of Insects, p. 92. 



Note on Colias Edusa fyc. Colias Edusa has been more abundant during the past 

 season in this neighbourhood than I have ever before witnessed. It is usually con- 

 fined to the immediate fields and cliffs bordering on the sea, but in August and Sep- 

 tember last, I observed many pursuing their undulating course at some distance from 

 their usual sporting grounds. Cynthia Cardui has certainly not been so abundant as 

 in previous years. I once met with Hipparchia Galatea in a small coppice and mea- 

 dow on the borders of Dartmoor in considerable numbers : they were confined to these 

 two places, not a single individual being seen in the adjacent country. I perhaps 

 should state that I never before or since saw this insect nearer this place than Teign- 

 mouth. — W. S. Hore ; Stoke, Devonport, February 2, 1844. 



Notes on Captures of Lepidoptera. March 19, Epigraphia avellanella, on palings at 

 Penge. April 5, Depressaria ocellana, Dulwich wood. May 28, Capua ochraceana, 

 Pseudotomia fraternana, Anchylopera siculana, Dulwich wood. June 18, Hadena ochra- 

 cea, Pancalia Latreillella, P. Leuwenhoekella, Anchylopera unculana, Carpocapsa 

 grossana on beeches, Pseudotomia nigricana, P. Ephippana, near Mickleham. June 

 25, Macrochila bicostella, Pseudotomia simpliciana, West Wickham woods. July 9, 

 Xerene procellata, Scotosia vetulata, Argyrolepia tesserana, Machrochila parenthesel- 

 la, Sanderstead downs. July 16, Anchylopera cuspidana, Pseudotomia Petiverella, P. 

 strigana, Pterophorus microdactylus, P. pallidactylus, Sanderstead downs. August 6, 

 Eupithecia subfulvella, Anchylopera Lundana, Sanderstead downs. August 13, Lo- 

 zopera Francillana, Acleris subtripunctulana, Steganoptycha unipunctana and Sericoris 

 aurofasciana out of holly, Macrochila marginella worn, Riddlesdown. Sept. 2 and 3, 



larva? of Cucullia Asteris on Solidago Virgaurea. Peronea ? a new species allied 



to P. boscana, larvae of Acronycta Ligustri on ash trees, Segetia neglecta and Ceropa- 

 cha diluta by sugar; Birch wood. Sept. 11, 17, Calocampa vetusta (three), Xanthia 

 aurago and citrago, Orthosia litura, by sugar ; two larva? of Centra bicuspis ? on sal- 

 low; one larva of Apatela Aceris; Birch wood. Oct. 25, Five Thera juniperata, on 

 Sanderstead downs. Nov. 5, twenty- five Thera juniperata (twenty being females), on 

 Sanderstead downs. The above are the best of my captures in Lepidoptera during the 

 past season. From nearly every collector T hear of the paucity of captures ; and al- 

 though some species, usually rare, have been somewhat common, I believe that Le- 

 pidoptera have been generally scarcer than usual : at least the unfavourable weather 



