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man to illustrate the impossibility of 
exterminating an annual and local 
species, by two, I might almost say 
continual breeding species, common 
everywhere. 
The remarks in the “Zoologist,’’ 
about Z. Minos ? amount to nothing, 
because few would expect a species 
which is so abundant as to cause the 
plants it rests upon to appear to have 
red flowers,- to be extirpated by the 
capture of a few thousands more or 
less, in two or three years, — only fine 
specimens being taken, but with 
such species as the Rev. J. Greene, 
mentions, the case is quite altered. 
To secure the breed of JY. Zonaria 
at Hoylake I got many males and 
injured their wings, so that the boys 
would not take them, and the result 
was that, last season, there were 
plenty of imagos, — but, in this case, 
the matter was easy. The females 
sit on the ground, and, when the 
males were injured, they were left 
with them. Had forty or fifty 
children, who were on this limited 
space, picked up every male as it 
appeared, (in hundreds of instances 
before they were stretched) the case 
would be altered, — especially as the 
perfect insect appears in the afternoon, 
as a rule, when those little rag-a- 
muflins are in tip top trim for taking 
them. 
To deny that persistence in such a 
process as is here employed for taking 
all the N. Zonaria, has the effect of 
exterminating species, is simply to 
hold to a foregone conclusion, and, as 
I said before, to use such illustrations 
as Mr. Newman used, is to deceive 
oneself. C. S. Geegsox, Stanley 
Grove, Liverpool. 
To he continued. 
CAPTURES, 
Lepidopteea. 
List of Lepidoptera, Captured in 
the neighbourhood of London in 1862. 
Below is a list of some of my cap- 
tures of Lepidoptera in the London 
district during the past season, which 
may possibly interest some of your 
readers. I have devoted the greater 
portion of my time this year to collec - 
ting Triclioptera and Neuroptera, 
which must be my excuse for there 
being so few of interest mentioned 
therein. As far as my experience 
goes, this has not been a favourable 
year for Lepidoptera generally : I 
did not meet with a single butterfly 
worth mentioning and many moths 
usually common were either scarce or 
apparently entirely absent. 
Smerinthus Tilice. Bred two 
specimens, end of May. 
Hepialus sylvinus. Kew and 
Willesden in August. 
Calligenia miniata Ruislip, Mid- 
dlesex, June. 
Arctia mendica. Harlesden Larvae 
July and August. 
Venilia maculata. West Wickham, 
end of May, Common. 
Metrocampa margaritata Ruislip, 
July. 
Ennomos erosaria. (1) On a gas 
lamp at Kilburn, November 1. 
