186 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No doubt other topics will suggest 
themselves to the Coleopterist and Hy- 
menopterist as likely to be invested 
with peculiar interest at Aberdeen, and 
we trust that all orders of insects 
will be efficiently represented. For our 
own contribution to the labours of the 
Meeting we have prepared a few ob- 
servations “ On the Geographical Dis- 
tribution of our British Butterflies.” 
The Entomologist’s Weekly Intel- 
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Mr. H. T. Stainton, Mountsjield, 
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Mr. Stainton will be at Aberdeen 
during the Meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
E. G. — Unfortunately we cannot refer 
yon to any work which will give a key to 
the English and Latin names of insects. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Pieris Daplidice . — There is something 
almost irritating in the tremendous luck 
that seems so often to reward a beginner’s 
first labours in the field of Entomology, 
and it is not to be wondered at. that the 
older collectors, whose lucky day has long 
gone by and whose rare captures now 
are the result of downright hard work, 
should be a little jealous. I was a very 
young band when I took my sixLathonias, 
and, not knowing what they were, gave 
one of them to the friend who named 
them for me. I was but a neophyte when 
I found Cloaniha Perspicillaris in a spi- 
der’s web, and for ever so long thought 
myself supremely fortunate in having 
captured an “ antler moth.’’ Now the 
above insects were all got without the least 
Science, trouble or merit on my part, and 
yet, I suppose, they would be considered 
as almost equal to the whole of my sub- 
sequent captures. And I believe that 
the experience of many an entomo- 
logist would show the same thing. Here 
is a case in point. A few Sundays ago I 
had the great pleasure of seeing, on my 
way to church, a female Pieris Daplidice, 
the first I have ever seen alive in Eng- 
land. Whatever my impulse may have 
been, I could hardly, in the face of several 
of my congregation, cry “hats off in 
chase;” the chance was missed and I 
never saw the fair one again. However, 
the next morning I wrote to some of my 
neighbours to put them on the look out, 
and a few days after one of them called 
and said that he was going back to school 
the next day and wished before starting 
to show me a few of bis last captures. I 
opened the box and beheld three Dapli- 
dices, one male and two females, all in 
good order, especially the male, which 
appeared not long out of the chrysalis. 
He took the first Specimen before be re- 
ceived my note, the others after. His 
elder brother, who also collects, was witli 
him, but did not get a single one, and so 
had to console himself with the reflection 
“Won’t I hunt for the larvae, old boy, 
while you are grinding away at Virgil.’’ 
The two females had evidently laid all 
their eggs.— Rev. W. H. Hawker, Green 
Ilook, II or n dean ; September 3. 
Sphinx Convolvuli . — On the evening 
