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finitely more rare than the Gamlingay 
one ; there have only been seen five 
individuals of it, all in different and 
distant years, and all in the month of 
September. Every one of these 1 
have examined, but the Gamlingay 
Lathonic p never. I have also found 
since the body of this work was printed 
that M artyn enumerates in his Aureli- 
an’s vade mecum, the following five 
insects as natives of Britain, which 
are very distinct from all here given, 
aud from each other ; they are fre- 
quent on the continent, but I have 
not yet seen British Specimens of 
them. 
Papilio [ Colias~\ Palceno 
Papilio [ Nymphalis ] Populi 
Papilio [~ Hrebia] Ligea 
Bombyx [ Jaspideah] Celsia" 
The last species Staudinger places 
among the Noctuce. 
“ And I have recently heard that 
the Papilio [Parnassius] Apollo has 
been found in Scotland, but have not 
yet seen a British specimen of that 
beautiful species myself.” 
I have no doubt that when the 
islands of Scotland have been properly 
worked, they will yield many new 
British Lepidoptera, and very possi- 
bly even some new Butterflies. 
To le continued 
Bombyx Rubi. In August 1861, 
I took eight or nine larvae of this spe- 
cies ( which is common here ) and 
succeeded in rearing four out of the 
number. Last Autumn I took from 
forty to fifty, and, in all probability, 
I shall not get a single moth from 
them. Those of 1861 all hybernated 
in October not being seen from that 
time till March of the following year, 
but the larvae which are now in my 
cage ( out of doors ) have never hyber- 
nated, and the larger number of them 
is dead, being covered with a white 
species of mould. Has any other per- 
son who is in the habit of rearing this 
species met with the same misfortune 
this year in particular ? G. B. 
Corbin. Ringwood Hants. 
Relaxing with laurel leaves. I 
should be glad of information from the 
experience of your readers, and so, I 
doubt not would many others too, a s 
to the proper mode of relaxing beetles 
and other insects with laurel leaves, 
which one or two of my Entomologi- 
cal friends and correspondents seem to 
find so very effective, although I can- 
not say that I have so found it myself. 
How does the plan act in the case of 
the larger Coleoptera etc, or rather, 
how is it to be acted on ? Rev. E. 0. 
Morris, JYunburnholme Rectory , Hay- 
ton, York. 
CAPTURES . 
Coleoptera. 
Diotyopteras minutus. I met with 
this beautiful beetle near Llangollen 
last July when “prospecting.” As 
this is a locality not given for it in the 
“ Annual ” I thought it might interest 
some of our Lancashire Coleopterists 
to know it could be taken within a 
reasonable distance. The first speci- 
mens I ever saw of this species were 
taken by J. Cooper, in Perthshire, 
several years ago. C. S. Gregson, 
Spring Hill, Stanley, Liverpool. 
