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midway between Cottrell-wood and Altringham. Collectors residing in a favourable 

 situation, would do well to examine tbe sods that cover bricks when drying, as many 

 species of moths that are rarely met with in any other situation, secrete themselves un- 

 derneath. Hadena adusta is very partial to them, and Actebia praecox, Agrotis Tritici, 

 Mamestra Persicariae &c. have also been taken. — Id. 



Note on Nyssia zonaria. This insect has been very scarce this season. After a 

 diligent search for some hours on the 15th of March, we captured eighteen males and 

 five females ; since then other collectors have been down to Liverpool in quest of them, 

 but without success. Some years they appear in great abundance. — Id. 



Note on captures in Dunham-park, $-c. On the 11th of March I captured in this 

 locality, Phigalia pilosaria (male and female), Achatia piniperda, Cheimatobia rupica- 

 praria, Oporabia nubilea, and Anisopteryx leucophearia, very scarce, I have not heard 

 of a female captured this year, the males are generally in great abundance ; Nyssia 

 hispidaria, not a specimen found, although abundant last year. On the 5th and 8th 

 instant some fine specimens of Biston Prodromaria; the best time of the day to capture 

 this insect, is about 4, P.M. Larentia multistrigaria, Orthosia munda, 0. stabilis and 

 O. cruda, on the oak. On the horse-chesnut some very fine specimens of Anisopteryx 

 JEscularia, male, and a single female ; the latter sex is excessively rare with us, I am 

 not aware of its capture down here before. I also beat out of the young firs, Gracil- 

 laria hemidactylella, and an Argyromyges, which appears to be a new species. — Id. 



Note on captures of Moths in one night and the following morning at Neiv Brighton, 

 near Liverpool. Having just received a copy of 'The Entomologist,' together with the 

 1st volume of ' The Zoologist,' I am highly gratified with the information I have de- 

 rived from them, in fact they have come like bright gleams of sunshine, dispelling ma- 

 ny a cloudy point which I was vainly endeavouring to comprehend or define. You 

 must know that I am isolated from all personal intercourse with other entomologists ; 

 simply because I am located in a town, where, although there is ample scope for the 

 most sanguine naturalist, yet I am sorry to say I cannot find one practical entomolo- 

 gist within thirty miles. I therefore hail the appearance of ' The Zoologist' with un- 

 expected pleasure ; and as I find its pages are open to authentic notices from practical 

 knights of the net, I shall embrace the opportunity to let others know what is taken in 

 this locality, and commence my contributions with a list of the captures in one night, 

 at New Brighton, near the Black rock, Cheshire, August 12, 1843, commencing at 

 half past 8 o'clock, and concluding about a quarter to 10. 

 Agrotis valligera. Twelve males and one of wing, and in colour from a light ash 



female, the only one I ever took, al- to an almost white ground, marked 



though I generally take about ten or with beautiful black arrows. I might 



twelve males each night from the 9th have taken a hundred if I had wished. 



to the 18th, at which time they are be- Charceas Graminis. One specimen, very 



ginning to fade. large and black. 



cursoria. Three specimens. Lytcea umbrosa. Five good specimens. 



■ ■ exclamationis. One only. Mythimna conigera. One only. 



aquilina, Tritici, vitta, or by what- Segetia xanthographa. It is almost as tron- 



ever name different persons may call it. blesome to keep this species out of the 



Forty-six specimens, from which a spe- net, as to get some others iuto it. 



cies-manufacturer might have had a Pyrophila Tragopogonis. One specimen. 



treat, as there was every variety in size, Heliophobus Popularis. 



from about 11 to 17 lines in expansion Apamea oculea. Very black ; common. 



