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Scotosia Vitalbata, S. Rhamnata , C. 
LSaworthii, II. Serena, II. TJncana etc 
&c. Mr. Hossor exhibited Diphthera 
Orion, L Putrescens taken near 
Torquay, Agrotit Lunigera from 
Torquay, Noctua Ditrapezium, and 
iY. Neglecta, (the two last named 
bred.) Mr. Anderson, exhibited a 
dark red variety of E. Vesper tar ia, 
female, — much darker than two others 
t exhibited on previous occasions. It 
would seem that the male of this 
species is subject to considerable 
^variation in depth of color and mark- 
ings to which the female, so far as 
observation goes, is not liable. He 
also exhibited Eurymene Dolalraria, 
'larvae and imago) Boarmia Roboraria 
and Asthena Sylvata, — all taken near 
’'York. Messrs Ecroyd and "Wade also 
■ ?xhibited several insects Mr. Anderson 
i exhibited apparatus he had made to 
: facilitate the capture of insects at rest 
on lamps, or high walls. Mr. Birks, 
Irew attention to some singular 
■ ninute black parasites which were 
bund firmly attached between the 
- segments of the larva of Dicranura 
Vinula . — R,. Anderson, Hon. Sec. 
September 4. 1862. 
CAPTUKES. 
Crambus Contaminellus. Never 
ose a night. Being at Morecambe 
n North Lancashire on the 31st, 
lit, I was much disappointed when 
t became frosty, as the evening 
slosed in, but having seen a likely 
dace for -work, when I passed along 
the shore, some time previously, I 
determined to try it, — fair or foul. 
To sugar on such a night, I knew, 
would be waste of material, and to 
search the flowers, would be to waste 
time. I therefore lay down on the 
bank, and had not been long searching 
among the low herbage, — principally 
Ononis at vensis, when Agrotis cur soria 
turned up. Presently I found another, 
and then another ; but soon cursoria 
was quite neglected, for, snugly 
ensconced in a sheltered place, sat 
Crambus Contaminellus. An hour’s 
searching produced four specimens. C. 
S. Gregson, Stanley Grove, Liverpool. 
September 4. 1862. 
Tinea Semifulvella. I have been 
rather successful, this season, in 
meeting with the above insect, which 
I never before saw alive, and which 
is, in fact, far from common. This 
year I have met with it in several 
localities. On June 23rd. I took a 
very fine specimen at rest on the trunk 
of a beech near Ambleside (West- 
morland;) about ten days after, I 
captured one flying at dusk, near 
Bow don, and about a week later still 
my brother, Mr. r J. B. Blackburn, 
met with it at Bcigate, Surrey. It 
never rains but it pours. — T. Black- 
burn, Bowdon, September 8. 1862. 
Nudaria Mundana. — While walk- 
ing near Levisham, about the end of 
July, I observed JY. Mundana, flying 
in numbers amongst some stunted 
oaks. Is it usual for them to appear 
gregariously ? — W. Stjrxbes Hornby, 
Clifton, York, August 25. 1862. 
