THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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OBSERVATION S. 
Lepidopteha. 
Miscellaneous . — I feel great delight 
in seeing at page 108 of the ‘ Weekly 
Entomologist/ the capture of P. Car- 
damines in Sept. I saw a very pale 
variety of M. Fuphrosyne and Selene 
in Haworth’s Cabinet (almost of a 
white ground). He assured me they 
were taken in August and September. 
This has been denied, but I have a 
small Selene from old Standish — 
father of Ben. Standish — and in his 
letters he writes “ One of the three 
Pearl-border Likenesses is what the 
Aurelians called the small Pearl-bor- 
der. I took it with the Queen of Spain, 
( LathoniaJ the same year and place 
but not since. I don’t know Hr. 
Stephen’s opinion of it yet.” 
The last letter I had from Captain 
Blomer dated Marlbank Cottage — 
(close under the rampart of Caris- 
brook Castle — in the centre of the 
habitat of M. CinxiaJ contains the 
following — “ There are now upwards 
of twenty broods on a bank outside 
my garden hedge, not fifteen yards 
from my door ! ! ” Dated April 16th. 
1824. He had not met with them 
a quarter of a mile distant from that 
spot. After his death I saw several 
lying dead that had bred and died in 
the cage. In Switzerland Car da- 
mines and the Fritillaries have two 
broods, but not always in England. 
Many others have two broods in the 
year. — J. C. Dale, Gian. Wootton, 
Sherborne, Dorset. 
A list of Lepidoptera occurring in 
the neighbourhood of Plymouth. By 
J. S. Dell, Esq. 
Continued. 
Bombyces & Pseudo-Bombyces. 
II. Hectus. Common. Taken at 
dusk, flying along hedgerows. 
June. 
“ Lupulinus. Common. The pupa 
in April under dry turf. Not 
deep. 
“ Humuli. Yery common in 
long grass at dusk, and at 
rest on hedges. Took the larva 
in December, very deep in the 
earth. 
“ Sylvinus. Common. Along hedge- 
rows, at dusk, August. 
Z. JEsculi. Rare. Taken at Sal- 
trum Wood. 
C. Ligniperda. Common in the larva 
state on ash. I shall long re- 
member the species through an 
encounter with the veritable 
Lord Dundreary, whilst in pur- 
suit of it, which I will detail at 
some future time. 
C. Fur cilia.* Rare. Was taken at 
Landulph. 
“ Bifida. Commoner than the 
above, though it cannot be called 
common here. 
“ Vinula. Common in the larva 
Btate ; mostly on Lombardy 
Poplar. 
S. Fagi. Rare. The larva taken 
at Mount Edgecumbe and An- 
tony Park; more like a grass- 
hopper than a caterpillar. Eed 
on Beech. 
