Insects. 



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Miana literosa. Five specimens, very fine. 



humeralis. Captured four speci- 

 mens and saw a hundred or more. 



Actebia prcecox. Five specimens, sitting 

 on the flowers of the ragwort (Senecio 

 Jacobcea). I take them with the for- 

 ceps; approaching them very carefully 

 I snap quick, enclosing flower and fly, 

 otherwise they drop down and are lost 



to a certainty. They do not fall, as is 

 generally supposed ; hut they follow 

 the smaller branches until they come 

 to the main stem, down which they run 

 with a rapidity truly astonishing. I 

 have spent several nights in ascertain- 

 ing this curious fact. 



Leucania pygmcea. Two specimens. 



Eupithecia centaureata. Four specimens. 



I was out again between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, and took the following 

 species before 6. 

 Ennychia cinyulata. Plentiful. It is dou- Pyrausta punicealis. Plentiful, in com- 



ble-brooded with us, appearing in May pany with Ennychia cingulata. 



and June, and again at the end of Ju- ostrinalis. 



ly and beginning of August. ccespitalis. 



C. S. Grey son ; 60, Mill St., Toxteth Park, Liverpool, June 7, 1844. 



Note on Captures of Lepidopterous Insects at Preston, in Lancashire. Having just 

 had the pleasure of seeing, for the first time, the 1st volume of 'The Zoologist,' I find 

 that work contains a fund of general information respecting captures in different parts 

 of the kingdom. I beg leave to hand you for its pages a list of the rarer Lepidoptera 

 that have been taken by my brother and myself in the neighbourhood of Preston : its 

 insertion will greatly oblige me. I beg also to state, that having duplicates of most 

 of the insects enumerated, I shall be glad to exchange with entomologists in other 

 parts of the kingdom. 



Melitasa Selene 

 Argynnis Aglaia 

 Cyntha Cardui 

 Hipparchia Davus 

 Thymele Tages 

 Cerura fuscinula 

 Notodonta Ziczac 

 Leiocampa dictaea 

 Lasiocampa Rubi 

 Pcecilocampa Populi 

 Nemeophila Plantaginis 

 Diaphora mendica 

 Charaeas fusca 



iEthiops 

 Graphiphora brunnea 



triangulum 



candelisequa 



punicea 



baja 

 Orthosia gracilis 



munda 

 Mythimna grisea 

 Glaea rubricosa 

 Pyrophila tetra 



Xylophasia sublustris 



epomidion 



combusta 

 Hadena remissa 



adusta 



Cucubali 



Capsincola 

 Heliophobus Popularis 

 Mamestra furva 

 Apamea nictitans 



secalina 

 Celaena Haworthi 

 Miselia Aprilina 



Oxyacanthse 



compta 

 Polia nebulosa 



Herbida 



Chi 

 Apatela Leporina 

 Thyatira batis 

 Ceropacha duplaris 

 Plusia Festucae 

 Anarta Myrtilli 

 Hib. connectaria 



Geometra canaria 

 Ellopia fasciaria 

 Hipparchus Papilionarius 

 Larentia cervinaria 

 Aspilates respersaria 

 Cidaria olivata 

 Harpalyce sylvaticata 



unangulata 



silaceata 



conflata 

 Pol. marmorata 

 Electra imbutata 

 Abraxas Ulmata 

 Xerene albicillata 



plumbata 

 Enc. undulata 

 Eupithecia angustata 

 Bapta punctata 

 Emmelesia turbaria 



rivulata 



sylvata 



luteata 



Blomeri 



candidata 



