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has prevented their capture. — J. W. Douglas ; 6, Grenville Terrace, Cohurg Road, 

 Kent Road, December 1, 1843. 



Note on Captures of Lepidoptera near Sudbury, in 1843. I send for ' The Zoolo- 

 gist ' a few notes on my captures in this neighbourhood during the past summer, ex- 

 cluding Assington-thickets, and omitting many of the commonest species. Gonepteryx 

 Rhamni ; this hutterily was on the wing as late as the 23rd of October. Colias Edusa ; 

 took one and saw two others between the 20th of August and the 7th of September. 

 Melitaea Euphrosyne ; plentiful in Brandon and Buhner woods in May. Vanessa Ur- 

 ticae ; saw a specimen of this butterfly on the wing on the 28th of November. Thecla 

 Betula? ; saw a few females at Bulmer and Lamarsh in the beginning of September. 

 iEgeria Tipuliformis; in attempting to nail up a branch of the common black-currant 

 tree in my garden, it broke, when I discovered that it had been hollowed of the pith by 

 a white caterpillar, which I put, with part of the branch, into the breeding-cage, and 

 on the 23rd of June it produced a beautiful specimen of iEgeria Tipuliformis, and 

 from that date to the 10th of July I took about ten specimens, some drying their wings 

 and others resting on the leaves of the currant. iEgeria Mutillaeformis; I took two 

 specimens in my garden on the 3rd and 12th of July, one of them from a blossom of 

 Valerian and the other resting on a rose-tree. Zeuzera iEsculi ; one female on the 

 premises of II. A. Allen, Esq., August 1st. Pygaera bucephala ; the larvae of this moth 

 were unusually abundant, the ground beneath many of the oaks and elms was com- 

 pletely covered with their excrement. Dasychira fascelina ; took a larva changing its 

 skin on some palings at Lamarsh, in the breeding-cage it fed on the blackthorn, and 

 produced a fine female on the 17th of July. Leucoma Salicis; rare in this neighbour- 

 hood, I met with only one specimen. Diaphora mendica ; several males of this moth 

 were found on the breeding-cage, which contained some females, a continuance of the 

 Lavenham brood. Nudaria mundana ; one specimen, July 16. Xylina Lambda; 

 plentiful in September and October. Amphipyra pyramidea; one specimen bred Au- 

 gust 1st from a larva found on the currant. Euplexia lucipara ; one specimen May 

 27. Polia dysodea ; rather plentiful round the Valerian in July. Polia seladonia ; 

 took one specimen of this very variable species on the 14th of September. Apatela 

 Aceris; took a female in June and two larvae in October. Catocala nupta ; saw a spe- 

 cimen of this moth on the wing in the end of July, and took one on the 3ist of Octo- 

 ber, in fine condition. Geometra tiliaria; a few specimens taken round the gas lamps 

 in the end of September. Geometra erosaria ; saw several wings of this species float- 

 ing on the river Stour near a small plantation. Geometra lunaria ; one specimen ta- 

 ken in Brandon wood on the 14th of May. Hemithea vernaria ; one specimen in 

 Brundon-lane, August 1st. I had not taken this species since 1835, when I met with 

 it rather plentifully by the side of a small wood at Kedington. The male in my ca- 

 binet was taken in an excursion by twilight, at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 10th of 

 July in that year. Ephyra omicronaria ; not scarce in Brundon-lane in June. Aniatis 

 plagiata; rather plentiful throughout the neighbourhood in May, and again in August 

 and September. Abraxas Grossulariata ; although a very abundant species, good va- 

 rieties are rarely met with, but this year I obtained one with the upper wings nearly 

 all black. Xerene adustata ; rather plentiful in Brundon-lane in the end of May and 

 beginning of June. Phibalapteryx tersala ; a few specimens taken in Brundon-lane 

 in the end of June. Phibalapteryx vitalbata ; took one specimen at Great Cornard, 

 and two in Brundon-lane, May 24th and June 21st. Emmelesia decolorata ; plenti- 

 ful in Brundon-lane from the end of May to the end of July. Eupithecia pusillata ; 



