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own was dropped for want of support 
that now proposed might meet a similar 
fate. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Worcestershire Captures , fyc. — During 
the past season of 1859 I have captured 
and bred the under-mentioned species. 
The mildness of the weather during the 
early part of it aroused many from their 
wintry slumbers at a much earlier period 
than was expected ; and though I may 
mention some common things, yet their 
early appearance is worthy of notice, and 
may be interesting to some of the readers 
of the ‘ Intelligencer.’ 
February 6. This day I captured at 
rest a moth with a large white diamond- 
shaped spot near the costa in the middle 
of the fore wing. The same day one of 
the same description emerged in my 
breeding- cage, and upon the following 
day I had the gratification of beholding 
another in the same box, waiting his 
turn to wear a decorative pin in his 
bosom. These moths vary but very 
little in the spots mentioned, and are 
almost destitute of any other markings 
or shadings. In colour and general 
appearance they resemble Eriogaster 
Laneslris, but the contour of the wings 
differs a little. They have excited much 
astonishment in those entomological 
friends who have seen them, but they 
appear inclined to think they are re- 
markable varieties of E. Lanestris ; but 
their very singular spots, and almost 
simultaneous appearance nine days prior 
to that of E. Lanestris (of which I bred 
many the same season) in its usual 
habiliments, half inclined me to fancy 
them a different species. Or was it that 
three precocious members of a family 
abandoned their usual style of attire and 
made their debut in the boxes in a novel 
and attractive dress, to start a new 
fashion? However, these diamonds are 
gems of the first water, and I have 
endeavoured to set them in a manner 
most exhibitory of their beauty. 
15. Eriogaster Lanestris. A fine series 
emerged twenty-nine days earlier than 
the same species did in 1858. Many 
of the same brood remained in the 
pupm until the following season, but 
not in consequence of any chilliness 
of the weather, as the following will 
demonstrate : those that did emerge, 
and those that did not, were kept in 
rather a mild temperature, a fire being 
in the room occasionally. Two pupa; I 
placed in a box in a cellar, where but 
very little light penetrates, and where no 
subject of her Britannic Majesty would 
be clamorous for a strawberry ice, even 
in the month of July! It is a very cold 
place; the thermometer is never high 
when it is down there ! and yet these two 
poor little creatures, without the aid of 
any stimulus, though very handy to it, 
poked their noses through a hard shelly 
cocoon, expanded their wings in full 
beauty and perfection, one upon the 5th 
and the other upon the 7th of April last, 
bidding defiance to the darkness and the 
cold to hold them prisoners any longer. 
21. Saturnia Pavonia-minor. Bred; 
had been in pupa two seasons. 
27 and 28. Amphidasis Prodromaria. 
Male and female bred. 
March 3. Tamiocampa Munda. One 
bred. 
4. Eubolia Cervinata. Eggs of this 
species commenced hatching. Last 
season the eggs did not hatch until 
the 15th of April, and although they 
were laid within the space of two or 
three days, there was a regular “ pop ” 
goes the larvte from the egg for upwards 
of a month afterwards. What a long 
hatch of grubs ! There were some almost 
full grown, while others were as babies to 
grown-up people, sometimes performing 
eccentric contortions upon the backs of 
