THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY' INTELLIGENCER. 
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CAPTURES. 
LePIDOI’TERA. 
A new Noctua. — It will perhaps be 
interesting to you and your numerous 
readers to hear that another Noctua has 
occurred near Manchester, which is new 
to this country. It has been in my pos- 
session the last three or four weeks, 
having been sent to me for my inspection 
by the fortunate captor, Mr. Thomas 
West, of Openshaw, near Manchester, 
who took it on the 15th of August, 1858, 
on the bank of the Leeds and Liverpool 
Canal, near Cborley: he was not col- 
lecting, and having neither pin nor box 
with him he begged a pin of a passer-by 
(a Mr. Fox); having secured it he took 
it to an entomologist, Mr. Henry Scott, 
and, being unable to ascertain its name, 
he took it alive the same day to two other 
entomologists residing seven miles off, 
but with no better success. The several 
members of his family and upwards of 
twenty persons saw it alive shortly after 
its capture. I consider it proper to men- 
tion the foregoing particulars in corrobo- 
ration of the fact. It is a noble insect, 
and appears to be closely allied to the 
Calocala family: it is in extent and size 
about equal to C. Sponsa ; f. w. white, 
irrorated with black, a black dot at the 
base; i. 1. black, sinuous, reaching from 
the costa fully to the inner margin ob- 
liquely from the thorax ; the orb. st. 
represented by a black dot; the ren. st. 
distinct, the outlines proceeding down- 
wards to the inner margin, forming two 
waved pale grey bands unconnected with 
the costa; el. 1. black, edged with white, 
sinuous, running up from the inner 
margin, but not reaching the costa; a 
semicircular black line edged with white 
enclosing a pale grey and fulvous patch, 
almost forming a circular spot at the 
apex ; thorax and abdomen white, ir- 
rorated with grey ; h. w. pure while, 
margin very deeply denticulated, and 
two black streaks near the anal angle. — 
Abraham Edmunds, The Tything, Wor- 
cester ; Jan. 10, 1861. 
Captures at Perth in 1860. — Perhaps 
a lew particulars of our most notable 
captures at Perth for the season of 1860 
may be interesting to your readers. In 
the first place, we have turned up a moth 
which I suppose has never been taken so 
far north before — namely, Deilephila 
Galii, of which fifteen larvae were taken 
in the autumn of 1859, upon Galium 
verum , near Perth and Auchtermucbty. 
Of the fifteen “serpents” (as they were 
impiously termed by some rustics who 
fell foul of some) some perished in the 
act of changing, and some — “ horribile 
dictu” — fell victims to the jaws of mice, 
— “sic periit gloria” Galii ; but five 
were successfully reared by one collector 
(Mr. Lamb), one of which now graces 
my cabinet. I believe D. Galii has 
been taken as far north before as Edin- 
burgh. A. Atropos also turned up at 
Moncrieff, and S. Convolvuli at Scone. 
I reared some specimens of Eupilhecia 
tenuiata from larvae obtained in the cat- 
kins of sallows in May : this is a new 
locality, I think, for this local little moth. 
My address from November to April is 
— F. B. W. W hite, Mrs. Jamiesons, 
18, Nelson Street, Edinburgh, and for the 
rest of the year as formerly, at Perth. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Lasiocanipa Rubi forced. — In Sep- 
tember I obtained larvae of L. Rubi, 
which I wished to force; I therefore 
placed them at some distance from the 
kitchen range in a box with a little sand 
in the bottom. All went on quite w r ell 
till after the 1st of December, on which 
day one began to spin, since which all 
the others have died, and this day it 
emerged, a female. — Y. Dueb, Ravens- 
bourne Park, Lewisham, S.E.; Jan. 17. 
