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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
scarcely say the season is as early here as 
elsewhere. During the past season I have 
also taken the following species : — 
P. Alsus, 
Artaxerxes, 
A. Selene, 
Aglaia, 
M. Artemis, 
P. Statices, 
M. Hastaria, 
T. Batis, 
B. Cousortaria, 
P. Sylvanus, 
H. Hyperantlius, O. Sambucaria, 
Semele, 
P. Salmacis,! 
and many others not worth troubling you 
to mention. I have most of these in du- 
plicate, which I shall offer later in the 
season. I took one specimen of Pamphila 
Sylvanus on a railway-bank at Skincliffe, 
on the loth of June; it is the only one 
known to have been taken in the county 
of Durham. — John Wilson, jun., Coul- 
son’s Buildings , Hallgarth St., Durham ; 
August 2. 
Captures of Lcpidoplera.'—I had several 
days in Cumberland, and paid a visit to 
the most noted localities, as I felt anxious 
to capture over again species that I used 
to take when a boy, and some twelve 
years ago took abundantly. What a 
change! this season, indeed, it does not 
apply to Cumberland only, for in this 
neighbourhood there is absolutely nothing 
to be got. My father and I, in company 
with Mr. Greening, of Keswick, went to 
look for Lobophora sexalisaria and Em~ 
melesia Tccniaria ; none to be found, nor 
anything else. On Skiddaw we only saw 
Harpaiyce Galiaria and Ccesiaria, Gele- 
chia Politella in plenty, and a specimen, a 
great height up, of Hemithea Cythisaria ; 
on the crest we “raked” the banks for 
Agrolis Ripce ; nothing visible but com- 
mon Caradrina and Triphcena Pronuba. 
To Newby Cross we paid two journeys ; 
the tirst, after a deal of thumping, only 
yielded three Nephopteryx Abietella , and 
two days thrashing the lichen boughs, in 
Barron Wood, with sticks four yards long, 
only turned up one Cleora Glabraria; 
in former years I have taken three score 
in less time: in fact, no Geometra to be 
beaten out. Of Blomeraria , in this dis- 
trict, I only met with three bad specimens 
this year. Interrogationis I only hear of, 
not a dozen specimens having been taken. 
I have met with a few line Crambus Con- 
taminellus, Selasellus and Perlellus Can 
this be identical with the species I took 
in June, the Argentellus variety? those 
I take on the salt-marshes now are cer- 
tainly very queer ones ; in some of them 
the silver streaks are entirely wanting. 
I may remark that I paid two visits to 
the (Seulosa-ground, and found the plant 
upon which the larva is said to feed 
(wormwood) growing in plenty there still. 
I forgot to note that in my travels I met 
with Triphcena Subscqua and Coccyx 
Internana. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 11, 
Bispham Street, Preston. 
Captures near Dublin , in J uly . — 
Dosithea Eburnaria. 
Spilodes Sticticalis. 
Lotria Siuuella. 
Agrotis Tritici. Abundant on rag- 
wort flowers. 
„ Valligera. Do. 
„ Fumosa. Do. 
Leucania Oonigera. Do. 
llydracia Niclicans. Do. 
Cerapteryx Graminis. Do. 
Pyrausta Ceespitalis. Luinbay Island. 
— Edwin Bibchall, Dublin ; Aug.'S. 
Doings in Ireland. — Being on a visit 
to Waterford, in the South of Ireland, I 
enquired if there were any lovers of 
Natural History in those parts; the only 
one I could hear of was a Dr. Burkitt, a 
name well known to ornithologists for his 
captures (the great auk and gold-vented 
thrush), presented to the Dublin Museum 
many years since. It was very lamentable 
to find among 30,000 inhabitants in one 
city only one man at all conversant with 
Natural History, and that the sight of an 
insect-net recalled to the Irish mind the 
story of a bow which had been dropped 
by a lady once in the neighbourhood, 
returning from an archery meeting, and 
which was for some years kept as a great 
curiosity by its captor, an Irish farmer, 
