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Insects. 



Deilephila Euphorhice not talien near BricJgnvater. — Havinpj seen an' erroneous 

 statement that a specimen of D. Euphorbiae, taken by the late Mr. Baker near Bridge- 

 water, was still in the collection formed by that lamented naturalist, and havin^^ an 

 opportunity of tracing the source of the error, by writing to tlie late Mr. Baker's friend 

 and coadjutor, Mr. Clark, of Halesleigh, I find it is simply a misnomer, the insect in 

 question being Deilephila Galii. Mr. Clark writes thus, "There is no specimen of 

 Deilephila Euphorbiae in the cabinet of the late William Baker, neither has that 

 cabinet ev er contained one ; the species is D. Galii, and the similarity of the two species 

 has probably led an incompetent observer into this error. Euphorbia Paralias grows 

 to a great extent among the Burnham Sands, a mile or two northward of the mouth of 

 the river Parrett, and William Baker used to remark to me that that one might expect 

 to find the larva of Euphorbiee there : we searched, but always in vain. There are two 

 specimens of D. Galii in the late W. B.'s collection, and a third in that of the Taunton 

 Museum : one of William Baker's was bred from a larva found by himself on the 

 southern side of Bridgewater ; of the history of the other two I know nothing." I fear 

 that this beautiful insect must now be struck out of the British list, since it appears to 

 have been extinct ever since the late Mr. Kaddon's razzia among the spurge at 

 Braunton Burrows. — Edward Newman. 



Capture of Endromis versicolor in Tilgate Forest. — On Thursday, the 8th of April, 

 in company with Messrs. Andrews and Tester, we made an expedition to the birch 

 woods, further up this line, the usual haunt of E. versicolor, taking with us a bred 

 female, which, notwithstanding the comparative dulness of the weather, proved such 

 an attraction that, after plying four nets with great rapidity as long as the rain would 

 allow us, we found we had captured between us 118 specimens, generally in fine con- 

 dition. Sundry specimens of Brephos Parthenias and Ceropacha flavicornis completed 

 our captures. To spare the trouble of application we had better add that, after sup- 

 plying the wants of our numerous friends, we shall have no remaining duplicates. — 

 J. Eardley Hall ; William Henry Draper ; Keymer^ Hnrstpierpoint, April 16, 1858. 



[I hear that more than six hundred of this species were taken simultaneously with 

 the above near Brighton. — E. N.'] 



Note on the Breeding of Endromis versicolor. — I succeeded in rearing twenty-eight 

 specimens this year from thirty-six eggs and ten caterpillars, which I obtained last 

 season. I kept the pupae out of doors, during the winter, in a flower-pot covered with 

 moss. — J. E. Hall ; Keymer, Hurstpierpoint, April 16, 1858. 



Occurrence of Hadena peregrina of Treitschke in the Isle of Wight. — Mr. Bond 

 kindly lent me a Noctua, which he captured last summer on the coast of the Isle of 

 Wight, to send to my friend M. Guenee for examination, and it proves to be, what I 

 supposed it was, the Hadena peregrina of Treitschke. It is a common species along 

 the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and will probably be found here along the 

 southern coast in those localities which Aporophyla australis inhabits. Mr. Bond's 

 insect is slightly darker in colour than the Continental specimens which I possess. — 

 Henry Doubleday ; Epping, April 17, 1858. 



Larvce of Tephrosia laricaria. — Mr. Burney has given us most interesting informa- 

 tion (Zool. 6029) concerning this previously unknown larva, but I am sure he will 

 excuse my asking him to add how he recognises a larva of which no figure or 

 description exists, indeed which no one had previously seen, and which he has not 

 yet bred, to be that of Tephrosia laricaria? I may mention that I have a decided 

 wish to prove the two species distinct; I neither desire to fuse such pairs of species, as 



