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The rare little Quedius fuscipes, in hay-stack refuse, and Silusa, at its usnal 
Cossi<s-haunts, have occurred to me near my house ; in the garden of which I have 
captured Cercyon laterale and C. terminatum on the wing. Attagenus occasionally 
exhibits itself indoors, with the elegant Ptinus sex-punctatus, which, alas ! exhibits 
a fatal attachment to the bottoms of window-frames, thereby coming to grief. 
I have also found both sexes of Brachytarsus scahrosus in an old red thorn tree 
in my garden, round which males of Smerinthus tilix (there are contiguous limes) 
are not rarely observed. I have also noticed this hawk-moth on Wimbledon 
Common.— E. C. Rye, 7, Park Field, Putney, S.W., 3Ia^, 1868. 
Capture of Dianthcecia cwsia. — lu the beginning of June I visited the Isle of 
Man, in company with Mr. Birchall, for the purpose of getting this species. The 
insect was rather scarce and very wild, as may be imagined from the fact that one 
night we did not capture a specimen. We succeeded, however, in procuring suffi- 
cient for our own wants, with some over. — D. Baxendale, Akroydon, Halifax, 
June I5th, 1868. 
Capture of Dianthaecia Barrettii. — Mr. Birchall has been staying at Howth for 
a few days this week, and has succeeded in capturing ^D. Barrettii. On Tuesday 
evening, when collecting in his company, I took a specimen of D. consx>ersa,, which 
has hitherto been placed in the Irish list only, on the authority of a single specimen 
recorded by Mr. Bristow, supposed to have been taken near Belfast. — W. F. Kirby, 
Dublin, June 18th, 1868. 
Lejndoptera hred and captured in the spring of 1SG8. — The present season 
opened auspiciously with the capture of six males and one female of N. hispidaria 
in Richmond Park. Unfortunately, however, all my efforts to establish a brood 
proved unavailing. 
At the end of March I recovered my larvae of 0. fascelina, D. ohfuscata, and C. 
Caja from their tiny outhouse, the remnant of the first-named numbering about a 
Bcore, of ohfuscata ten, of Caja two. More miserable invalids than the fascelina I 
never beheld. Wood-lice had worked fearful ravages, too, among the ohfuscata, 
but what survived appeared to be strong and well. The young budding shoots of 
broom were partaken of with avidity by the latter — very languidly indeed by the 
former. Time, however, worked wonders, and the end of May saw a dozen fat 
fascelina ready to spin, while seven fine olfuscata dived among the long moss in 
their flower-pot and disappeared. Caja, too, fed up rapaciously after the manner 
of its kind. 
At West Wickham, in March, I captured a beautiful jiair of E. cuvellanella and 
a scries of T. crepuscularia ; while at Shirley my friend Mr. Stanley Leigh took 
B. parthenias and P. hippocastanaria. 
In April one of my breeding-cages yielded P. lacertula, T. opima, and B. hirtaria. 
From Rannoch larva3 1 obtained fine specimens of N. ziczac ; and from larvaj taken 
nearer home, drumedarius. At the same time there emerged, beautiful among bred 
insects, A. myrtilli and A. porphyrea, and richly-coloured examples of A. ruhidata, 
together with many S. ligustn. Now, too, a goodly supply of E. albipunctata, 
adorned my setting-boards, shortly afterwards succeeded by ccntaureata, na)uita, 
exiguata. minutata, assimilata, and absynthi.Ua. 
