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or correspondents to indulge in coarse vulgarisms and personalities. It is to this 

 cause, and to this cause alone, that we are to attribute the gradual decay and final 

 extinction of the 1 Intelligencer.' That such a periodical, conducted in a gentleman- 

 like and impartial spirit, would be well supported I entertain no doubt whatever. — 

 Joseph Greene. 



Argynnis Lathonia in Suffolk. — The account in the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 7913) of 

 the capture of Argynnis Lathonia, by Captain Russell, in a meadow-field near Laven- 

 ham, Suffolk, confirms my opinion that A. Lathonia has claims to be considered a 

 truly indigenous species. It was said in a former paper on the subject that there 

 ought to be localities where it could be collected annually :- now if such localities do 

 not exist, there are those in which it is often to be met with ; one, for instance, is the 

 Devil's Ditch, near Newmarket, where, during my residence at Burwell, from the 

 year 1848 to 1854, 1 saw three specimens which were taken there, and heard of others, 

 and on my first going to Sudbury I called on a Mr. Barwick, a bird-stuffer (who 

 endeavoured, but without much success, to collect insects for sale), and requested him 

 to point out to me the most favourable localities of the neighbourhood, when he men- 

 tioned Assington Thickets as the one he had been the most successful in, gave me the 

 names of many good and local species which he had found there, and stated that on 

 one of his visits he found a caterpillar suspended by the tail from a branch of hazel, 

 which he left undisturbed till his next visit, when it was changed into a chrysalis; 

 this he took home, and in a short time it produced a fine specimen of A. Lathonia : 

 his son, who generally accompanied him in his excursions, visited the Thickets next 

 day, and captured two more specimens of A. Lathonia on the wing; the three speci- 

 mens he sold to Mansfield, a travelling dealer in insects, for five shillings, and 

 although I did not see the specimens I am inclined to think the account correct, 

 because I found all his other statements of the productions of that locality correct, 

 and also because he immediately pointed out the insect on my showing him my 

 cabinet, the specimen in which was taken by me about six miles from the Thickets 

 and two and a half from Lavenham, as recorded in the ' Zoologist ' (Zool. 30). I have 

 little doubt that I saw two more on the wing the following year, one in a meadow 

 near Lavenham Church, and the other in a pasture on the Monk's Eleigh road. 

 Assington Thickets being surrounded by high wood (not " high road," as misprinted 

 in the ' Zoologist,' p. 401), is a very unlikely place for specimens from the Continent 

 to be blown into. — William Gaze; Great Thurlow, near Newmarket, Suffolk, 

 March 3, 1862. 



Occurrence of Ch&rocampa Celerio at Upper Tooting. — On Saturday last was 

 captured a very good specimen of Chcerocanipa Celerio, at Upper Tooting, and 

 kindly sent alive to me. Is this not a very unusual time for its appearance? It is 

 not very lively, but I should think that might be owing to the cold weather. — William 

 Rogers; Grove Cottage, Merton Road, Lower Tooting, S., March 19, 1862. 



Food-plants of Eupithecia pumilata and Boarmia repandata. — Mr. Stowell, in his 

 interesting paper on "The Entomology of the Isle of Man" (Zool. 7898), remarks 

 that though Eupithecia pumilata is rather common in the imago state, he cannot find 

 the larva, and does not know the food-plant. It has never been my good fortune to 

 meet with this larva in the wild state, though I have reared a good many from the 

 egg. My friends and correspondents Messrs. Hellius, D'Orville, Greene and Buckler, 

 have taken it upon the following plants : — Spartium scoparium, Eupatoriuin canua- 

 binum, Senecio Jacobaea, Potentilla reptans, Clematis vitalba (growing wild), Clematis 



