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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
the stage, but were scarcely treated with 
the respect they would have met with had 
our standard not been too highly raised. 
However, on our return we numbered 
seventy-four boxes, containing Cruda, 
Piniperda, Populeti, Rubricusa, Munda, 
Gracilis , Lithorhiza, Badiata and Leuco- 
grapha , with many others of the corps de 
ballet not worth recording. Larva, too, 
came grovelling among the rest, and 
Coleoptera, amoug which Oncomera 
would persist in flyiug away, without 
waiting for his turn. Leucographa af- 
fected one bush (we have taken four as 
yet), of which I have a painful remi- 
niscence in my finger, but I have also 
the lady herself before me, which is better 
than “parmaceti for an outward bruise;’’ 
however, as it is striking one, I will 
chloroform her and go to bed, wishing 
my reader the like good fortune. — W. D. 
Crotch, Uphill House , Weston-super- 
Mare ; March 27. 
Captures in Perthshire. — I sugared on 
Wednesday, the 23rd inst., and took 
C. exoleta, C.Jlavicornis, and several of 
the common Tceniocampce. Thursday 
was a blank day with me, but on Friday 
I took two C. Jlavicornis and one Petasia 
nubeculosa (a fine male). To-day I have 
taken another Nubeculosa (a female), and 
hope to get some eggs from her. I found 
both specimens restiug on the trunks of 
large birch trees, about two feet from the 
ground. My address for the next four or 
five weeks will be — George King, Cam- 
agoran , Rannoch by Pitlochric, Perth- 
shire ; March 28. 
Vanessa Antiopa. — Yesterday, while 
standing at my own door along with a 
few more persons, talking over the pre- 
sent Reform Bill, my attention was 
drawn to a butterfly that come out of the 
field and alighted in the road just below ; 
I thought it was V. Alalanta, but on 
going to it, to my great surprise, I found 
it was a very good specimen of Vanessa 
Antiopa, which I approached very cau- 
tiously, with cap in hand, and 1 made it 
a captive within forty yards of my own 
door. — James North, Neivsome, near 
Huddersjield ; March 28. 
Hackney Marshes. — Hammersmith 
Marshes are all very good for those that 
live in that direction, but Hackney 
Marshes are not to be despised, though 
the growth is so different; for up to the 
present time I have seen very few reeds 
at Hackney, though Poa aquatica and 
Carex riparia and paludosa are abuudant. 
On the 25th of March, in company with 
Mr. Robinson, l visited Hackney in 
search of larvre of Elachista Poor and 
Gelechia arundinetella. Both were in 
abundance, — the latter we had never be- 
fore found so plentiful; in less than an 
hour we had collected upwards of a hun- 
dred of these elongate, uncoloured larvae ; 
how many of these will be reared is pro- 
blematical. Last year I only bred two, 
or, to speak more correctly, one aud a 
half, for one specimen was too injured to 
count as an “ entire animal ;” I was, how- 
ever, comforted, when at Hackuey the 
other day, by learning from Mr. Boyd, 
who stumbled on us accidentally whilst 
we were poaching on his preserves, that 
he had not bred a single specimen last 
season. There is always something con- 
solatory in hearing of the misfortunes of 
our friends. The larva; of Elachista Poa; 
were so plentiful that we were soon tired 
of picking them, aud many, as usual, 
were ichneumoned. Perhaps we looked 
for another larva, but as we did not find 
it, it is unnecessary to say anything more 
about it. — H. T. StaINXon; April 4. 
Coleoptera. 
Hammersmith Marshes. — To prove the 
prolific nature of this locality (despite 
the repeated razzias of metropolitan col- 
lectors) I subjoin a list of names and 
numbers taken by me about a fortnight 
ago, premising that all captures were 
made in less than three feet square of 
dry reed roots, and that l was occupied 
exactly two hours thereon. Though the 
