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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Capture of Petasia nubeculosa. — 
Mr. Foxcroft has forwarded to Mr. S. 
Stevens a living specimen of P. nubecu- 
losa for exhibition at the next meeting 
of the Entomological Society. Mr. Fox- 
croft has taken several at Rannoch. 
Abundance of early Noctuio.e. — 
We hear that more than one collector in 
the north of England has found the early 
Noctuidce very abundant at the sallow- 
blooms this month ; Taniocampa opirna, 
gracilis, Populeli being the best species. 
Populeti and munda have also been at- 
tracted to sugar. The lanat of Noctuidce 
are reported to be more numerous than 
usual. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The World of Insects; a Guide to 
its Wonders. By J. W. Douglas, 
Secretary to the Entomologies. Society 
of London. Price 3s. 6d. Van Voorst. 
(Second notice). 
We called attention in our first to this 
pleasant, unassuming little work, and 
beg now to lay another extract before 
our readers. 
“ The garden being an artificial as- 
semblage of certain plants within a re- 
stricted space, there to be cultivated for 
the sake of their foliage, flowers, or fruit, 
it follows that all the insects attached 
thereto have thus the conditions favour- 
able to their increase proportionably 
multiplied and cared for. Some insects 
accordingly abound in gardens, not only 
in those attached to mansions in the 
country, but in those small parallelo- 
grams attached to the modest suburban 
residences, which are ironically, or by 
courtesy, called gardens, but the number 
of species found is not great. Many 
garden flowers, however, are attractive to 
insects born and bred beyond the boun- 
dary wall, and draw them from the sur- 
rounding woods or fields ; so far a gar- 
den is an advantage to a collector, for 
some of the visitors are rare and not 
otherwise to be obtained, or at least not 
without great trouble; I allude more 
particularly to the Sphingidae, 
“ Soft moths that kiss 
The sweet lips of the flowers and harm not," 
hovering over them, Petunias espe- 
cially in some years in great abun- 
dance. I suspect that if gardens 
near the south coast were attentively 
watched on summer evenings, the num- 
ber of our native species of Sphingid®, at 
present very small, might be increased, 
and some of the rarer species of the 
family be more often taken than they are 
at present.’’ 
Noiu ready , price 3s., 
P RACTICAL HINTS RESPECT- 
ING MOTHS AND BUTTER- 
FLIES. By Richard Shield. 
London: John Van Voorst. 
Now ready, price 3d. (or post free 4 </.), 
No. 2 of 
i MANUAL OF BRITISH 
A BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 
By II. T. Stainton, Editor of ‘ The En- 
tomologist’s Annual.’ 
This work will contain descriptions of 
all the British species, with popular 
readable instructions where to find and 
how to know them, and will be illus- 
trated with numerous wood-cuts. To be 
completed in about Thirty Monthly 
Numbers. 
London: John Van Voorst, Paternos- 
ter Row, and to be had of all Booksellers 
and News Agents. 
Printed and published by Edward Newman, 
Printer, of No. 9, Devonshire Street, Bishops 
Without, London, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex. — Saturday, April 19, 1H50. 
