THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEE. 
75 
P- W. C. — The cases are probably 
those of a Psyche. We do not know that 
any part in your district is better than 
another. Entomologists resident in a 
place find out such matters. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Ennychia octomaculalis and Nephop- 
teryx Abietella . — I wish to record the 
occurrence of the above insects in Skye ; 
they were taken there last season by Mr. 
James Wingate, of Hamilton. N. Abie- 
tella has been taken in this neighbour- 
hood, but I believe that E. octomaculalis 
has not been found in Scotland before. 
Mr. W. also found Melanippe hastata 
very plentifully in Skye.— T. Chapman, 
Glasgow ; May 20. 
Captures at Maltby . — On the 21st 
instant, in company with Mr. W. Hicks, 
I paid a visit to the above-named spot, 
and beat for larvae ; the result was as 
follows : — 
Thecla W-album (rare), 
Xanthia citrago, 
„ gilvago (very rare), 
Cosmia diffinis, 
„ affinis, See. 
— James Batty, 133, South St., Parle, 
Sheffield ; May 23. 
[The other captures are not deserving 
of a special notice.] 
Lepidoptera in Dumbartonshire.— On 
the 19th inst. my son and I made an 
excursion to the Gareloch. We found 
the vegetation less advanced than at the 
same period last year; Pleris aquilina 
only just breaking through the surface of 
the ground in exposed places. Between 
Garelochead and the shore of Loch Long 
we found the under-mentioned insects 
on the wing. We also brought home 
eleven larvae of Geometra Papilionaria, 
taken off the small birches — i. e. small 
specimens of Bctula alba, not B. nana. 
Pieris Napi, 
Thecla Rubi, 
Fidonia atomaria, 
Melanippe hastata, 
Coremi;y,,ferrugata, 
Eupithecia pumilata, 
„ Satyrata, 
Antithesia praelongana, 
„ dimidiana, 
Sericoris politana, 
Anchylopera unguicella, 
Grapholitha Ulicetana, &c. 
I have bred this month in the house 
A. prcelongana and dimidiana , from larva; 
collected last September, on the Argyle 
side of Loch Long ; the former lives on 
birch, and is a bright green, while the 
larva of the latter lives in the terminal 
shoots of Myrica Gale, several leaves of 
which it draws together, and is rather 
stout, of a blackish colour, like pale 
Indian ink. — T. Chapman, Glasgow ; 
May 21. 
Captures at Darenth Wood . — During 
a three days’ visit (May 21 — 23) to this 
locality I have made the following cap- 
tures : — 
Thecla Rubi, 
Nemeobius Lucina, 
Trocbilium Cynipiformis, 
„ Culiciformis, 
Sesia fuciformis, 
Lithosia aureola, 
Phragmatobia mendica. 
By sugar, first night ; — 
Acronycta Rumicis, 
Gonoptera Libatrix, 
Hadena Thalassina, 
„ Contigua, 
Euplexia Lucipara, &c. 
Eleven species in all ; so that those fond 
of the sport can now induge in it to their 
hearts’ content. Cucullia Verbasci was 
just out. I have also taken the following 
Geometrae and Tortrices, as well as many 
other species : — 
Macaria notataria, 
Hemerophila abruptaria, 
Harpalyce ruptaria, 
