THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
B, G. — Your letter of the 6th is duly 
to hand, but it contained no stamps. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoi’teba. 
Nolodonta Carrnelila. — Not having 
seen the capture of N. Carinelita an- 
nounced in the ‘Intelligencer’ for the 
present year, I beg to stale that within 
the last fortnight ray brother, J. G. Maw- 
son, has taken five specimens of that 
insect; the captures were made near 
Keswick. He has also taken one speci- 
men of Ceropacka Ridens and one pair 
of C. Flavicornis, near the same place. 
Last week, when out in search of insects, 
I took a male Nolodonta Chaonia ; it 
was not a perfect insect, the wings not 
having properly expanded, I think on 
account of the dry weather we have had 
here. — George Mawson, Gill House, 
near Cockermouth ; May 4, 1861. 
Anarla Myrtilli in April. — Your cor- 
respondent “ F. B.” appears to have 
informed you of the capture of A. Myr- 
tilli last month, and, doubting the fact, 
you have, in the ‘Intelligencer’ of this 
week, suggested the insect captured being 
D. Sulphurella. I therefore beg to com- 
municate to you that my friend Mr. 
Lynch, in sweeping heath with me last 
week, took a specimen of A. Myrtilli. 
It was in bad condition, and therefore 
thrown away, but it was most un- 
doubtedly an insect of that species. — 
R. W. Fe REDAY, 3, Leighton Villas, 
York Road, Holloway, N. ; May 4, 1861. 
[We shall certainly be glad to hear 
of any further captures of Anarla Myr- 
tilli in April, if any of our readers can 
throw more light on the subject.] 
Captures at Colchester. — I have taken 
the following insects this season, up to 
the present date : — 
Tteniocampa Gothica, 
Selenia Illunaria, 
Biston Hirtaria, 
Amphidasis Prodromaria (8), 
Hibernia Leucophearia (I female), 
... Progemmaria, 
Anisopteryx iEscularia, 
Coremia Ferrugaria (2, April 24th), 
Chimabacche Fagella (abundant). 
Is not the 24th of April a very early date 
for Ferrugaria? I was certainly sur- 
prised at meeting with it, considering 
how cold the weather has been, but I 
was even more surprised at seeing 
Strenia Clalhrata out on the 12th. But- 
terflies seem very backward. I have 
also bred the following : — 
Smerinthus Tiliae (male and female), 
Leiocampa Diclaea (1), 
Dasychira Pudibunda, 
Saturnia Pavonia-miuor, 
Chloephora Prasinana (5). 
— W. H. Harwood, Colchester, April 30, 
1861. 
Captures near Sheffield . — Chaonia is 
beginning to put in an appearance in 
my breeding-cage; the larvae of this I 
obtained last August, a notice of which 
has already appeared in the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer.’ I have also bred a most splendid 
variety of C. Ridens from a larva which 
I look near here ; I have another in pupa. 
This species must have been overlooked 
here, as I have never heard of it being 
taken, and I therefore think 1 may claim 
to be the first breeder of it here. In 
addition to these 1 have bred S. Lunaria, 
F. Atomaria, E. Dodoneala. I have also, 
in company with Mr. Pryer, obtained 
some hundreds (fust approaching thou- 
sands) of larvae off grass ; also one or two 
hundred off sallow. — W. Thomas, Tom 
Cross Lane, Sheffield; April 30, 1861. 
A Night’s Larva-hunting in Whitsand 
Bay. — 1 and two other entomologists had 
thought that many species of larvae might 
be taken by night on the coast, by the aid 
