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E. G. C.— Y oar insects are too com- 
mon : we shall he happy to announce 
any rarities you may meet with. 
S. B. — Your larvae on raspberry are 
not Lepidopterous ; they belong to one 
of the saw-flies, and will, no doubt, 
prove injurious to your bushes. 
T. L. C. — The larva on wild parsnep 
will, no doubt, be the Large Flat-body 
( Depressaria Heracliana.) The pale 
moth, of which you took a colony of 
larvae, is Scythropia Cralcegella. The 
dark moth from rushes is Glyphipteryx 
Thrasonella. The domestic moth is 
Tinea Granella. If you visit Trench 
Wood please search for the Genista 
Tinctoria (Dyer’s Green-weed) on which 
the Coleophora Vibicella feeds. 
Fuey’s Work. — Several of our readers 
have written to us to enquire the price of 
this useful and instructive book. This 
question we cannot at present answer, 
as our copy did not reach us through the 
trade, and we have not heard the price 
mentioned. The title is ‘ Die Tineen 
und Pterophoren der Schweiz,’ von 
Prof. Frey ; Zurich, Verlag von Meyer 
und Zeller, 1856. 
W. T., Wakefield. — Your Cerura 
larvae will eat either sallow or poplar : 
try them with both. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lists of Lepidoptera. — Owing to the 
great demand for my lists I am sud- 
denly sold out; and as I shall not have 
any more ready for two months no more 
need apply at present. —Thomas Chap- 
man, Glasgow ; July 7, 1856. 
Turlrix pinivorana. — I took a curious 
variety of this insect in Kensington Gar- 
dens on the 22nd of June, being almost 
black instead of the usual brown colour. 
[Is it really the same species P] On the 
28th I took another specimen, but in this 
the markings were brown. The locality 
was a group of fir trees from forty-eight 
to fifty in number, opposite Porchester 
Terrace. — T. R. Oxley, London ; July 
8, 1856. 
Doubleday's List ivanted. — I shall be 
glad to purchase one of Mr. Doubleday’s 
lists for labelling Lepidoptera if any of 
your readers have one to part with. — F. 
Meyer, 17, Sand Street, Birmingham; 
July 8, 1856. 
Captures of Lepidoptera at Brighton. 
— Neuria Saponarice has been rather 
abundant here during the last week or 
two: T never before met with it as a 
common insect. Nearly all that I have 
taken of this species at sugar have been 
females, and those which I have taken at 
light have been males. Can you account 
for this fact? I have taken a single 
specimen of Agrotis cinerea at sugar on 
June 25. — John N. Winter, 28, Mont- 
pellier Road ; July 6, 1856. 
Lepidoptera at Shooter's Hill. — Being 
on a visit here I have had a day or two 
in the neighbouring woods to see what 
they would produce in the way of Lepi- 
doptera : my exertions have been almost 
entirely confined to beating and search- 
ing for larvie. Since the 30th of June I 
have beaten off oak two larvas of Noto- 
donta chaonia, one N. trepida, three Ce- 
ropacha ridens, and a dozen or so of 
Biston prodromarius ; off birch one Noto- 
donta dictceoides, one N. dromedarius, and 
several N. eamelina, one of which is 
nearly half-grown, and will, I hope, spin 
up and produce a moth in August, thus 
proving it to be double-brooded beyond 
a doubt. On aspen 1 found the eggs 
and larvcE of Notodonta dielcea and 
Pterostoma palpina, and two or three 
larvie of Closlera reclusa or curtula full- 
grown : I also saw two others not long 
hatched. Off honeysuckle I beat a small 
larva of Sesia fuciformis ; it is feeding 
well, and I hope I may be able to rear it. 
To-day I found upwards of twenty larvae 
