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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
served before is a fact familiar to all 
experts in our craft ; and many a record 
of such occurrences might be preserved 
with far greater advantage to science 
than those apocryphal statements about 
Bath Whites, &c., to which we are occa- 
sionally treated. — Edward Newman: 
August 16, 1856. 
Erebia Cassiope. — Last week I cap- 
tured a good number of this species 
on Ben Lomond. — M orris Young, Old 
Sneddon Street, Paisley; August 15, 
1856. 
Captures of Coleoptera in Renfrew- 
shire. — During the past summer I have 
taken in Renfrewshire the following spe- 
cies of Hydradephaga : — 
Dytiscus marginalis, common, 
„ punctulatus, common, 
Acilius sulcatus, not very common, 
„ fasciatus, local, but abun- 
dant, 
Colymbetes fuscus, common, 
„ pulverosus, 2 specimens, 
„ notatus, 1 specimen, 
„ exoletus, common, 
„ bistriatus, not very 
abundant, 
Ilybius ater, common, 
„ guttiger, local, but very 
abundant, 
„ uliginosus, very common, 
Agabus arcticus, local, but very 
abundant, 
„ Sturmii, very common, 
„ chalconotus, not very 
abundant, 
„ maculatus, abundant, 
„ paludosus, abundant, 
„ bipunctatus, common, 
„ guttatus, abundant, 
„ fontinalis, local : I have 
taken 50 males and a propor- 
tionate number of females, 
„ affinis, local, but very 
abundant, 
„ bipustulatus, common. 
In a future number of the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer’ I may continue my list of Ren- 
frewshire species. I shall be most happy 
to exchange my captures for such as are 
not found in this neighbourfield. — Ibid. 
Laverna conturbatella at Preston . — I 
have this species by me, which I took 
two or three years ago along with Eido- 
phasia Messingiella : it agrees with those 
which Mr. Machin sent me. — J. B. 
Hodgkinson, Preston; August 18, 1856. 
Sirnaethis scintillulana at Preston . — 
This day, Sunday, I have taken a few 
hundreds of this pretty species among 
wild mint : they were flying by thou- 
sands, another instance of the non-rarity 
of any species when the peculiarity of the 
species is found out: a score of those 
beautiful spangled little fellows might 
be seen sitting on one plant ; the tops of 
the plants were all puckered together 
with the larva in the space of a few 
yards. — Ibid. 
Captures at Darentli Wood. — During 
the past week, while at Darn, I have 
had the good fortune to capture a fair 
specimen of Deilcp/iila Galii while flut- 
tering over the blossoms of the honey- 
suckle, and a few specimens of Arge 
Galathea, which, I am told, has not 
occurred there for many years. I also 
saw Apatura Iris several times, but un- 
fortunately did not succeed in capturing 
it. — Henry Mercer, Spital Square; 
August 16, 1856. 
Polyommatus Acis. — This is reported 
to have occurred at Ventnor lately. 
This, if true, is quite a new locality for 
that species. Can it have gone there in 
search of Galathea P — II. T. Stainton ; 
August 20, 1856. 
Larva of Agrolis Ashworthii. — I have 
at present four or five larvm of this spe- 
cies, reared from eggs sent from Wales 
by Mr. Foxcroft. They are now in their 
second moult, and have no resemblance 
to the larvie of Agrotis, being green with 
a white lateral line, and in habit as well 
as colour resemble more the larvie of the 
genus Polia. They are now feeding on 
Campanula rotundifolia , though at first 
