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ave found moths very common at sugar this summer, indeed, I have never seen 
Ihicolon, corticea, and littoralis so common as they were last month ; it is also a 
ery early season for many things ; valligera, in particular, I have never seen before 
ae end of July, and it is common in August with tritici at ragwort flowers, whilst 
lany of the specimens which I captured last month were more or less worn. 
The corticea vary wonderfully in colour and markings — one which I took is 
early black, whilst others of the same sex (males predominate) are very pale. 
I would recommend incipient collectors to examine at night all kinds of plants 
ifested with Aphides, and not confine their attention solely to nettles, for the 
honey-dew " found on other plants is also very attractive, but in various degrees. 
I am prompted to send you these remarks in the hope that they may prove 
Seful to some of your readers, remembering, as I do, when I began collecting, how 
lie sight of a fine bed of nettles made my heart jump, but I was continually 
oomed to disappointment, never having succeeded until lately in finding any moths 
a the nettles, as mentioned in Mr. Greene's little work. — B. L. Eagonot, 130, 
onway Street, Birkenhead, July 8th, 1868. 
Lepidoptera hred, ^c, in the spring. — I began the year by breeding Eupithecia 
Ihipunctata on January 27th (forced), from larvae collected in Coombe Wood. I 
ave been very successful with this species, as — though Mr. Harpur Crewe says 
uly one in every ten escapes ichneumons — I succeeded in breeding more than half 
line ; the last emerged on April 28th, or three months after the first ! 
In the early spring I collected, near Rugby, a number of spruce-fir cones, from 
rhich I have bred a fine series of Coccyx strohilella. 
On Wimbledon Common Adela cuprella has been out in far larger numbers 
dan last year ; while, at the sallows, Tceniocampa gracilis and ruhricosa were at 
ome as usual, — and a specimen of the latter occurred at the lamps. 
During April, Clostera reclusa, Eiqnthecia minutata, and others, appeared in 
ly breeding-cages, from larvae taken on Wimbledon Common and Combe Wood 
ist autumn. — G. B. Longstaff, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W. 
Collix sparsata, Sfc, near York. — In five nights' collecting during last week I 
btained a good series of C. sparsata in very fine condition ; also series or pairs of 
aost of the following : — H. unca, by sweeping long grass ; on the wing, P. syrin- 
aria; at sugar, amongst others, A. leporina, A. rumicis \a,r. salicis, L. pudorina 
frequent), X. hepatica, M. abjecta, M. anceps, Agrotis suffusa (one, apparently just 
lut), D. citcuhali, and A. adusta.—T. J. Carkington, 1, Melbourne Terrace, York, 
Tune 13th, 1868. 
Capture of the larva of Polia nigrocincta. — I had the good fortune, this after- 
loon, again to find the larva of P. nigrocincta. — N. Greening, Isle of Man, 
I9th June, 1868. 
Note on Colias Edusa. — I found a caterpillar of C. Edusa feeding on Melilot 
ast October at Charmouth ; it changed to a pupa on our journey home, and died 
n the act of emerging at the end of March.— C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, 
m June, 1868. 
[This interesting fact tends to prove that Edusa in this country is double- 
brooded, or partially so ; or that all the examples taken in spring and early summer 
bave not necessarily hybernated. — Eds.] 
