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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
men or boys will not insert lists of insects 
that never have been taken up to the 
present time, but may be some day met 
with. I may instance a list which ap- 
peared in the ‘ Intelligencer,’ a few weeks 
ago, informing us that Pamphila Linea 
occurred at Carlisle, whereas it is Syl- 
vanus that occurs, and not Linea , of which 
you appear to be cognizant by your 
noting York as its northern range as yet. 
There were also other errors in the same 
list, such as Sphinx Ligustri, Halias 
Quercana, &c., being taken there ; those 
species have not as yet occurred — at least 
been bred or captured. I should be 
greatly interested to know authentically 
of such occurrences. It is too bad of 
parties so heedlessly to mislead those 
who are engaged in any scientific pursuit. 
You, Mr. Editor, are not supposed to 
know each individual’s competency to 
determine one species from another, but 
in the butterflies I think one should 
expect to keep right, being such a 
short creed to learn. I will now note 
a few, and you can reckon your own 
latitudes and longitudes, and draw your 
own observations ; suffice it to say there 
is nothing I note down here but I have 
questioned the parties very minutely and 
sceptically upon odd points. 
Leucophasia Sinapis I have known 
taken at Dunham Park, near Manchester; 
it is abundant for a few miles round 
Grange, on the western and northern 
sides of Morecambe Bay, also at Winder- 
mere more sparingly, and about the West 
Cumberland Lakes very thinly strewn ; 
by Ullswater, which is more eastward, it 
is more numerous; but in the neighbour- 
hood of Carlisle I have not known of 
more than half a dozen specimens 
being taken within a circuit of twelve 
miles. 
Colias Edusa, Many have been taken 
here, also on the west coast of Cumber- 
land, but those only during the past two 
or three years, only three specimens 
having been seen for fifty years in Cum- 
berland (Mr. Heysham’s authority). 
Colias Hyale. My father had an odd 
specimen under his hat close to Carlisle, 
last year; he knows Hyale well, and I 
could not persuade him to think it into 
Edusa. 
Pieris Daplidice. See a communica- 
tion in the ‘ Intelligencer,’ from Mr. 
Mason, of Grange (Intel, iv. 194), last 
year’s capture ; I should suppose him to 
be correct iu this, as he certainly does 
know female Orange-tips. It is perhaps 
not generally known that Grange is in 
Lancashire. 
Gonepteryx Rhamni. Only an odd 
specimen seen here as we go to the 
limestone range, on by Kendal, Grange, 
&c., it is common. I never knew any to 
be taken near Carlisle, or yet in Cumber- 
land ; in Northumberland, the adjoining 
county on the eastern side, it again ap- 
pears on the limestone range. 
Thecla Betulce. You are already ac- 
quainted with its occurrence in North 
Lancashire. 
Thecla Rubi. It occurs from here to 
Carlisle. 
Thecla Quercus. Only odd ones here ; 
not met with at Grange, but occurs 
plentifully near Carlisle. 
Chrysophanus Dispar. In 1847 I saw 
a specimen in Barron Wood — a very un- 
likely place for Dispar ; but it might 
possibly have been Chryseis : indeed, it 
was so very simple in its action that I 
made sure of only having to let it fly 
into my net; it flitted up during the sun’s 
gloom, and settled on a young birch 
trunk. My brother and I say it was a 
“ big Copper,” and we are not “ green- 
horns” exactly. I put my net to it to 
make it fly off, and it only just flitted 
over our heads again and settled among 
the long grass, and it then became a 
matter of history. I communicated the 
