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Duplicates. — Larvae of Lubricipeda, &c. 

 Desiderata. — Other Larvae. S. L. Mosley, 

 Beaumont Park, Huddersfield. 



Larvae of E. jacobcea, on receipt of box 

 and return postage.— George F. Miller, 

 23, Bensham Terrace, Gateshead. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, Sec. 



Captures at Honeydew. A portion of 

 a hedge in my garden is composed of Sallow, 

 and observing the other day they were much 

 infested with Aphides, I went at night with 

 a lantern to see if any Noctuae were feeding 

 on the honey dew. I have taken or seen the 

 following during the past week : — L. comma, 

 impura and pallens, X. lithoxyka and polyodon, 

 M. brassicce and ancceps, A . basilinea (including 

 one with a dark red band across the wing), 

 gemina and oculea, M. strigilis and fasciuncula, 

 C. morpheus and cubicularis, A scgetum, excla- 

 mation^ and povphyrea. The last named I 

 have never taken here before, and believe 

 only one specimen has been previously 

 obtained, by Mr. Gardner, at sugar, about 

 two years ago. T. pronuba, N. augur, plecta, 

 C. nigrum, f estiva, and baja, H. oleracea and 

 pisi,P. V-aureum,B. repandata and. C. russata. 

 I have given a full list because I have not 

 seen an account of the species frequenting 

 honeydew before. I have no doubt I will 

 yet add considerably to the list. — John E. 

 Robson, West Hartlepool. 



Captures at Lewisham. — I shall feel 

 obliged if you will kindly insert the following 

 captures made by myself and brother, at 

 sugar, during the past 10 days. On the 

 nights that we sugared, the sky was very 

 clear, and the wind chilly, but there was 

 no moon to interfere with our sport ; the 

 following were among our captures : — 1 fine 

 C. ligniperda ; 3 A. megacephala ; 1 A. aceris; 

 1 A.rumicis; A.pisi, common; A. basilinea 

 plentiful, as was N. plecta and T. orbona; T. 

 pronuba and X. poly don had their fighting 

 instincts highly developed. X. lithoxylea 



and A. gemina were fairly represented ; 1 2V. 

 /estiva; 1 N. triangulum and N. augur plen- 

 tiful ; 7 G. trilinea ; 2 L. comma; 3 D. pin- 

 astri ; 3 L. lithargyrm ; 3 E. lucipara ; and 

 M. typica was so plentiful that it became 

 quite a nuisance, averaging at least 4 or 5 

 to each patch of sugar. C. A. Marriott, 

 ii, George Lane, Lewisham, Kent. 



The Mole. It may be interesting to 

 some of the some of the readers of the 

 Young Naturalist to know that I have several 

 varieties of the Mole taken about here. It 

 seems to vary from black to white. I have 

 white, cream colour, dun, slate colour, and 

 various shades of grey and black. — Thomas 

 Hann, Byers Green. 



Notes on V. C-Album. — "We have all, 

 when out of doors, worked hard this season 

 for larvae of this species, as we failed to get 

 ova, and we never in all our years took so 

 many. Besides the one I sent you, I have 

 at this time, one emerged, found on currant, 

 and two pupae on the same tree still to 

 emerge, and one larvae nearly full fed ; on 

 nettle three larvae have been found. On 

 Friday, June 24th, a pupa and a tiny just 

 hatched larva were found on currant (the 

 latter is the larva I have still feeding). This 

 shows they must have been deposited at 

 very different times. If you remember I 

 told you my son took a C. album on the wing 

 on Good Friday ; about this time the ova 

 producing these now in pupa must have 

 been laid ; then came a season of cold, when 

 doubtless the butterflies returned to hyber- 

 nation, and when once more the weather be- 

 came warm, they were again on the wing, and 

 our young larva, would be from an egg depos- 

 ited then. Does not this seem reasonable ? 

 On the 22nd. of June my eldest girl was 

 driving for a friend, and resting on a flower 

 sunning itself, she watched for a few minutes, 

 a splendid freshly emerged C. album. She 

 longed to get out and try to catch it, but her 

 pony was too fresh to permit her to venture 

 to alight. Even since I have been trying to 



