THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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July 14. Carrington Moss; find fe- 
male Callunce been out some time. 
July 23. Four of the above larvae in 
cocoon for some days past. 
July 24. Carrington Moss; Callunce 
flying in abundance ; on my return home 
male Callunce bred (larva, May 12), and 
two of the larvae still feeding. 
Aug. 2. Another larva in cocoon; 
female bred; take her to Carrington 
Moss to attract males ; select some twenty 
fine specimens. 
Aug. 6. Bred another female Cal- 
lunce. 
Aug. 7. Take her to Carrington ; 
males visit her in great abundance; find 
an old female on the heather depositing 
her eggs. 
Aug. 10. Eggs of Callunce, laid 24th 
July, hatch to day. 
Leaving home at this date for three 
weeks, the single larva (still feeding) was 
tnrned out into the garden, and two 
pupae remain over till next season. 
1859. 
May 9. Carrington Moss ; get six or 
eight larvae of Callunce , various sizes. 
Mr. Sidebotham a few also. 
May 13. Receive from Mr. Double- 
day ten larvae of Quercus nearly full- 
grown ; ours not more than half-grown. 
May 27. Most of Mr. Doubleday’s 
larvae in cocoon. 
June 10. Carrington larvae grown 
amazingly, but do not appear inclined to 
form cocoons. 
June 11. Leave home till the 28th. 
June 21. See Callunce on the wing 
over heather at the foot of Skiddaw, 
Cumberland. 
June 27. My people write me female 
Callunce ( last years cocoon) bred, taken 
to Carrington Moss, where another fe- 
male was found on the heather ; attract 
the males in great abundance, and the 
larvae taken May 9th are still feeding. 
July 7. Mr. Sidebotham breeds two 
female Callunce ; my larvae, taken same 
time, still feeding. 
July 8. Bred another female; last 
season’s cocoon ; place her in the garden 
at Bowdon, and attracts the males in 
plenty ; and again the next day Mr. 
Sidebotbam’s female, kept in the coach- 
house at Sale, is visited by a host of 
males ; on the same day males observed 
on the wing in the parish of Hale. 
July 12. Callunce flying abundantly 
at Bowdon, and a female picked up on 
the fence. 
July 16. Carrington Moss, Caflunce 
in plenty. 
July 18. Ditto, ditto, and a female 
found at Sale. 
July 19. One of the Carrington larvae 
(May 9th) in cocoon ; the others refuse 
to go into cocoon. 
I leave home for three weeks. 
R. S. Edleston. 
Bowdon ; Dec. 7. 
A LAMENT FOE THE LARGE 
COPPER. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — Much as collectors may have to 
answer for their attacks on Chrysophanus 
dispar, yet I believe that neither to them 
nor to the burning of the surface-growth 
of the fens is the extinction of this 
butterfly due, as is set forth by your 
correspondent (No. 166, p. 79). Up to 
a certain date, of which I am not certain, 
but I think it was fourteen or fifteen 
years ago, the species had survived all 
adverse influences, and was not at all 
rare ; for almost any quantity could be 
bought of the London dealers. But sud- 
denly there came a flood, at the time 
when the insect was in the larva state ; 
all the broods were drowned, and after- 
wards there was not a solitary specimen 
to gladden the eyes of a collector. 
I made a pilgrimage to Wliittlesea 
Mere in 1841, on purpose to see the 
