THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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make it out as a splendid T. Munda. 
This was a very good beginning, and put 
us on the qui vive : we took several other 
inoihs hovering over, but it was now too 
dark to distinguish them. When they 
ceased flying we lighted up, and after 
searching over the blossoms beat them 
into our nets. In this way we took 
T. Stabilis and T. Cruda abundantly.; 
C. Vacdnii, Spadicea and S. Satellitia 
commonly. We now proceeded on our 
first round of the sugar, but the attrac- 
tions of the sallows proved far superior 
to our mixture; we only took a few 
S. Satellitia and a couple of C. Vaceinii 
on it. Passing near some fir trees a very 
good specimen of X. Lithorhiza flew at 
the light, and was quickly transferred to 
a pill-box. We now diversified the 
amusement a little by larvse hunting; 
but after more than an hour’s hard work 
on our hands and knees we gave it up in 
despair, having only taken three small 
ones crawling up dead grass stems. A 
second round of the sugar produced no 
results, and as it was now about half-past 
nine, and we had to catch the 10.40 
train at Beckenham, we beat a retreat, 
having spent a few hours pleasantly 
enough, though the captures were very 
ordinary; we numbered on our arrival at 
home forty boxes. Sallows at Lewisham 
have produced the usual common Tcenio- 
campcB, T. Rubricosa being about the 
best. Mothing and at rest we have taken 
P. Pilosaria, H. Rupicapraria (male and 
female) and H. Leucopkearia. We have 
also taken a good many young larvae at 
night with a lantern, chiefly on grass — 
nearly all Nocluae, but we do not know 
their names. We have bred B. Prodro- 
maria (male and female) and H. Leuco- 
phearia {three females), besides numerous 
commoner species.— C. & J. Fenn, Clyde 
Villa, Lee ; March 25, 1861. 
Captures near Sheffield . — On looking 
over our diaries we find the following cap- 
tures chronicled for the present year; — Ou 
the 17th of February we opened the cam- 
paign by taking two P. Pilosaria. After 
this we did not succeed in finding any 
images till the 9th of March, when we 
took two C. Flavicornis at rest on birch 
trees, in the Old Park Wood, and one 
L. Multistrigaria, flying round a bush, 
the same evening. On the 10th we ob- 
tained a fine dark variety of H. Leuco- 
phearia. Since then we have visited the 
sallows once or twice, the most noticeable 
captures there being T. Rubricosa, about 
a dozen ; saw any number of C. Spadicea, 
T. Gothica, T. Stabilis, &c. The breeding 
cage has produced several A. Prodro- 
maria, two N. Camelina and four E. 
Satyrata. From the 21st of February to 
the 8th of March we have taken nearly 
three hundred larvae, and out of all this 
number can only recognise about a dozen 
to be A. Porphyrea, and half that quantity 
to be A. Nebulosa; we have hopes that 
some of them will turn out to be Noctuae 
of which the larvae are unknown. The 
temperature of the night seems to have a 
great effect on them, as one night, when 
we were on the Einginglow Moors we 
did not capture a single one, while, only 
a night or two before, we had taken over 
seventy, and we do not suppose that there 
was a difference of 5° in the two nights. — 
W. Thomas & W. B. Pryee, Sheffield ; 
March 26, 1861. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The Larva of Micropteryx . — The an- 
nouncement, in the ‘Intelligencer’ last 
week, of Dr. Hofmann having bred one 
of the species of Micropteryx has afforded 
me much pleasure, because some six years 
ago I found a mine in the leaf of Caltha 
paluslris, which I then considered to be 
that of Micropteryx Calthella, but as 
others suggested that it might only be 
the infant larva form of the Sciaphilce I 
was contented with the decision, and so 
the matter has lain until the preseut 
