1892.] 



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Doubleday quietly left his seat and captured the prize to the great 

 amusement of the congregation. After leaving school, Mr. Capper, 

 for a time, had no opportunity or leisure for following his favourite 

 pursuit, but when he settled in Liverpool he became acquainted with 

 the late Benjamin Cooke, who induced him to send for his cabinet 

 and collections. He quickly made other entomological friends, and 

 as soon as an opportunity afforded, resumed his collecting. From 

 that time his interest in Entomology has never flagged. In the year 

 1874 he met with an accident when collecting at the top of 

 Penmaenmaur, where he had re-discovered A = contiguaria. From 

 this he has never entirely recovered, and has been since then too 

 lame for active collecting. Unable to take the field, he determined 

 to bring Entomology to him, and in 1877 the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society was commenced at his house, Huyton Park, 

 on the 26th March. Mr. Capper was the first President, which post 

 he has held for fifteen consecutive years, with honour to himself and 

 profit to the Society. Since then his work lias been much merged 

 in that of the Society under which much useful work has been done. 



With the exception of Mr. Webb's collection at Dover, Mr.. 

 Capper's is one of the best out of London. it is wonderfully 

 complete, and includes a very large number of interesting and valuable 

 varieties. He has also an extensive "Educational Collection," 

 comprising type specimens of all orders of insects, with representatives 

 of them in their earlier stages also. Both collections are always open 

 to Entomologists, either for study or to enable them to name their 

 specimens. Mr. Capper has not written much, but his Annual 

 Address to the members of the Society is always interesting, and 

 generally contains most suggestive material in relation to the advance 

 of Entomological Science. 



THE PTEROPHORINA OF BRITAIN, 



BY J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



( Continued from page 256, Vol. I.) 



Mavasmarcha phcBodactyla. — This single-brooded and sexually di- 

 morphic species is locally common in the South of England, where its 

 food plant Ononis grows. 



Synonymy — Phaodactyla, Hb. 14; Tr. IX., 2, 240; Zell. " Isis,'" 

 1841, 834, "Linn. Ent. Zeit.," VI., 356; Dup. XL, 313, 10, p. 657; 

 Sely's En. 25, 7; H.-S., V., p. 378; Frey 410; Sta. " Man." V, p. 



