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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
and Orthoptera fare ? Are grasshoppers 
plentiful? How is it with the He- 
miptera? Are they also in diminished 
numbers, and is there any great prospect 
of the Aphides becoming extinct? 
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CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Acronycta Alni. — I have great plea- 
sure in adding one more locality for this 
insect. A beautiful, nearly full-fed larva 
was brought me to-day by a gardener, 
who had found it on a crab-leaf which 
was lying hy the pathway. I examined 
the spot, but could see no trees which 
W’ould afford it food, save a few poplars 
some hundred yards off. Whether it 
really came from a crab tree, or whether 
hunger had compelled it to take a new 
pabulum, I cannot say, but a strong 
wind was blowing at the time. It ate a 
great portion of the crab-leaf whilst it 
was in his possession. He further in- 
formed me that he had seen the cater- 
pillar before, but very rarely and at long 
intervals. — F. 0. Rospini, Tamworth ; 
August 24. 
Emmelesia Unifasciata. — Whilst col- 
lecting near here, on the 21st instant, I 
had the good fortune to capture two fine 
specimens of this insect, which I beat 
out of a hawthorn hedge. — W. A. Ellis, 
Cheam, Surrey ; Aug. 24. 
Coleoptera. 
Disappointments. — Towards the end of 
May last I made an excursion to Crwm- 
lyn Burrows, Swansea, in the hope of 
obtaining a series of Nehria complanata, 
or any other good things I might pick 
up. I was induced to visit this spot by 
a notice in the ‘ Intelligencer,’ some time 
since, that a gentleman from Cheltenham 
College had taken upwards of eighty 
specimens of the species above named in 
one morning. I was informed that the 
place where beetles were to be found 
commenced about a mile from the town, 
and extended along the coast to Briton 
Ferry. At this latter place (if I may be 
excused for the digression) there is a 
lunatic asylum, — a fitting receptacle, in 
the opinion of most persons, for ento- 
mologists in general, and coleopterists in 
partieular, especially wheu seen, on their 
hands and knees, on sand or mud, “ in 
the fact” of dabbing here and there to 
obtain Bemhidium or other small Geode- 
phaga. Having reached the sands, I pro- 
