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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
pondeut alludes has furnished the follow- 
ing statistics of the “ Innocents slaugh- 
tered : ” — 
Dvtiscus marginalis 
. . 1 
Colymbetes fuscus . 
. . 8 
llybius ater . . . 
. . 6 
„ uliginosus . 
. . 18 
Agabus guttatus . . 
. . 8 
„ paludosus . 
. . 17 
„ vitreus . . 
. . 53 
„ bipustulatus 
. . 47 
Hydroporus elegans 
. . 21 
Helophorus, Hydrochus, Hydraena, Be- 
rosus, Hydrobiiis, &c., more than 200. 
Grand total 400 more or less.] 
An Euler of llie Broom- seed. — About 
this season, for several previous years, I 
have observed empty pupa-cases project- 
ing fiom the seed-pod of the broom. I 
should be glad to learn what species of 
moth it is that is reared within such 
narrow limits as these pods afford. I 
take it to be one of the seed-eating Tor- 
trices, such as Dicrorampha.— Ibid. 
Captures near Sheffield. — I and Mr. 
John Jessop paid a visit to Maltby 
Wood and Common, July 27th, and 
captured one Thecla W-albuin, sixty 
Arcje Galathea, and eight Ophiusa pasti- 
num, besides several commoner species 
in abundance. — W. Laycock, 154, Bath 
Street , Sheffield; August 4, 1856. 
Duplicate Lepi'doplera. — I shall be 
happy to supply any entomologist, who 
may think them worth applying for, with 
A rge Galathea , Abraxas Ulmaria and 
Aplecla herbida , and I should feel ex- 
ceedingly obliged to any of your readers 
who could help me with the Clear-wings. 
— F. Meyer, 17, Sand Street, Birming- 
ham ; Augusts, 1856. 
Captures at Cirencester.- — I have been 
over here from Newnham for the last 
four days, and have taken 
A rge Galathea, 
Argynnis Paphia, 
Steropes Pauiscus, 
Pamphila liuea, and 
Pol y om m a t us C ory d o n , 
all in Earl Bathurst’s park. I only 
found the head quarters of Galathea to- 
day. I saw two or three stray ones on 
Saturday ; but to-day by the ‘ Round 
house’ they were swarming: I captured 
a dozen in a few minutes, and ten P. 
Linen at the same place. Paphia was 
plentiful in the “ rides.” I give the lo- 
calities, as no doubt you have readers in 
this neighbourhood. I cannot under- 
stand how P. Corydon came here: there 
is no chalk in the county, and I have 
always understood they were only found 
in chalky districts. 1 took the only two 
I saw, and shall explore the country 
round in the hope of finding their metro- 
polis before next Saturday, when I leave 
here. Galathea I have captured as freely 
as I can so as to supply those who want 
it. I have a lot of eggs, if of use to any 
one. — S. Bingham, Cirencester ; August 
4, 1856. 
[This is a new locality for the local 
Pauiscus, and we should be glad of a few 
Cirencester specimens if our correspond- 
ent has them to spare.] 
Monk's Wood. — It may save some col- 
lectors a fruitless journey to know that 
they will be refused admission to Monk’s 
Wood to collect. It is to us no small 
loss to be refused admission, as it is the 
only wood good for much in this part of 
England. This, in addition to the ruth- 
less destruction of our feus, will be a great 
misfortune to our cabinets. I went down 
to the vicinity of Monk’s Wood last week, 
and on being refused by the keepers, 1 
wrote to the proprietor, Mr. Simpson, 
Burlington Gardens, and the reply was 
as courteous as the refusal was decided, 
on account of the game not being dis- 
turbed. Although 1 do not agree with 
him that walking through the rides would 
disturb the game after the second week 
in July, the proprietor considers so, and 
therefore we have to go without the 
Purple Emperor and other rarities with 
which that wood used to supply our 
cabinets. My sugaring for two or three 
