686 Insects. 



Hercyna clathrata Drepana falcataria Scopula Prunalis 



Hyria auroraria Hym. hybridalis Nola strigulalis 



Fidonia ericetaria Margaritia Verbascalis 



Deilephila celerio and Porcellus, Sphinx Convolvuli, Acherontia Atropos and Vanessa 

 Polychloros have been taken here by other parties. 



While in Cumberland I took Hipparchia Cassiope on the 18th of June, at Stye- 

 head tarn, and Cidaria latentaria, Emmelesia trigonata, and what I suppose to be E. 

 bifasciata in Borrowdale. I beat out of a hazel bush near Rosthwaite, a specimen of 

 Mamestra splendens ; it is a very different insect from M. Pisi. I was shown a spe- 

 cimen of Calocampa vetusta, and another of Lophopteryx carmelita, both taken near 

 Keswick. On arranging our series of Lepidoptera, I find we possess some which are 

 quite new, at least they are not figured or described in any work on British Lepidop- 

 tera. A friend of mine who lately visited the Isle of Skye, observed a great number 

 of the larvae of a Geometra, very similar to those of Abraxas grossulariata : they were 

 feeding on the burdock, on the summit of Ben Beckley, where he shot a rock dove 

 (Columba Livia), the crop of which was completely gorged with them. A few of these 

 larvae have since changed into pupae. — Jas. B. Hodgkinson ; 12, Friday St., Preston, 

 July 28, 1844. 



Note of Captures in the New Forest, Hampshire, and Darenth-wood, Kent. On the 

 4th of June, Mr. Haggar and myself went to the first of the above-named localities, 

 full of hope and preparation to do a great deal in making captures of Lepidoptera and 

 their larva? ; but though we worked hard day and night, the result of our labours was 

 very scanty, as the list will show. For many of the caterpillars we were too late, for 

 others too soon ; and moreover, we had to glean after the rooks, which, with their 

 young around them clamorously appealing to their parental feelings, searched every 

 large tree, and the young plantations too, for larvae. These, I suspect, constituted the 

 chief food of old and young, for the ground was baked hard with the long drought, 

 and could not yield the usual supply of worms &c, so that we beat and beat again, 

 and still found nothing new. At night we put sugar on the trees, in what we consi- 

 dered to be the best places, but nothing but a few common Noctuae came. The fol- 

 lowing is a list of the best of our captures. 



Fumea nitidella Alcis consortaria Anchylopera diminutana 



Xylophasia rurea Minoa Chaerophyllata siculana 



combusta Euphorbiata obtusana 



Apamea secalina, Haw. Bapta bimaculata Roxana arcuana 



Thyatira batis Macaria liturata Pseudotomia puncticostana 



Rusina ferruginea *Cleora Lichenaria Lampronia rupella 



Setina eborina Ditula sylvana Anacampsis dodocella 



Deilephila Porcellus Adela Sulzella 



And a few others, of the names of which 1 am not certain ; together with larvae of 

 Thecla Betulae and Quercus, Psilura monacha, Petasia cassinea, Lithosia quadra, 

 Miselia Oxyacanthae and Aprilina, Catocala spousa, C. promissa, Ceratopacha ridens, 

 Biston Prodromarius, Alcis roboraria, and some others, mostly common. 



Disappointed with the produce of the New Forest, we retraced our steps, and on 

 the 10th went to Darenth wood, where we found the Lepidoptera abundant. In one 



* The larval were also found, about half grown. 



