196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
female specimen hovering over the 
flowers of a Petunia, last evening. Colias 
Edusa is much more common here this 
autumn than the white butterflies. — G. F. 
Mathews, Raleigh House , Barnstaple ; 
Sept. 12. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — A very fine female 
specimen was taken by one of my neigh- 
bours, on Friday evening, within two feet 
of where I was standing, and is now on 
my setting-board; another was noticed 
on Saturday evening, about ten o’clock, 
but not captured. Both were hovering 
over Marvel of Peru. — R. W. Weight, 
4, Gloucester Terr ace, Victoria Park Road , 
Hackney , N.E. ; Sept. 12. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — A pair of this in- 
sect have been taken here ; one was cap- 
tured by me. — Samuel Tagg, Parle Street, 
Congleton ; Sept. 12. 
Gelechia Palustrella, fyc. — I have taken 
ten specimens of G. Palustrella, in very 
line condition. I have successfully tran- 
sported the larvae of Nothris Verbuscella 
to Aldeby, as the Mullein fully shows. — 
W. Winter, Aldeby, Beccles ; Sept. 12. 
Captures at Deal. — Both Colias Edusa 
and Cynthia Cardui are as abundant this 
year as last ; this breaks up the theory 
that their appearance is septenary. I 
have taken four more of the larvae of 
Deilephila Galii since my last communi- 
cation, making ten in all. Ten speci- 
mens of Sphinx Convolvuli have likewise 
fallen to my share. Many of the Pyralidae 
are very abundant; S. ferrugalis and 
(S', hybrulalis swaim. All your corre- 
spondents are very quiet as to their suc- 
cess at sugar: the moths come hereto 
it in swarms, such species as L. pallens 
and impura, A. Valligera, A. Segetum, 
X. Xanthographa and N. C-nigrum, but 
nothing very good. Lncusta migratoria 
is common this year; I have seen about 
twenty. — H. J. Harding, 1, York Street, 
Church Street, Shoreditch. 
Lepuloptera near Dublin in August . — 
♦Colias Edusa. Abundant. 
♦ „ Hyale. Several specimens. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. This fine insect, 
hitherto doubtfully recorded as Irish, but 
of which no native specimen was extant, 
has made its appearance in considerable 
numbers. Five specimens have come 
into my hands. Gardens near to the sea 
appear to be its favourite resort, but no 
partiality for any flower observed, cab- 
bages and carnations seeming to be 
equally attractive. Its habits appear 
sluggish ; one specimen placed unhurt in 
a box lined with cotton-wool thrust its 
nose into a corner, and remained without 
motion for forty-eight hours, until aroused 
by the preparations for its execution. 
Agrotis Cursoria. Asleep in ragwort 
flowers on the sea-shore, but scarce; has 
not previously occurred in Ireland. 
Spadotis Prtecox. By “raking” on the 
Malahide sand-hills, but not abundant. 
Luperina Caespitis. Do. 
♦Harpalyce Ocellaria. In swarms on 
the sand-hills. 
* „ Galiaria. Do. 
Camptogramma Fluviata. Two males 
beaten from a bank of mixed herbage on 
shore at Malahide ; new to the Irish list. 
♦Scopula Ferrugalis. Abundant on the 
cliffs. 
♦Crambus Geniculens. Do. 
I have duplicates of those species marked 
with a * ; also of 
Grapta C-album, 
Liparis Dispar, 
Agrotis Valligera, 
„ Tritici, 
Leucania Couigera, 
Apamea Counexa, 
Pyralis Farinalis, 
and trust that any of my correspondents 
to whom they would be useful will write. 
— Edwin Biuchall , Dublin; Sept. 9. 
Micro- Lepidoptera at Taunton. — I here- 
with send a list of Micros I have taken 
since my residence in Taunton, not that 
there are many rare ones amongst them, 
although several 1 had not met with 
before, viz. Coleophora apicella, Gelechia 
scriptella and Elachisla subocella. The 
