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flowers. But I am afraid that owing to 
my clumsiness and their vivacity, besides 
their being a little passe, they are not 
worth offering as duplicates to any one. 
I have taken lately the larva of Ccrura 
bifida near Abingdon. — A School-bov 
Entomologist. 
Captures at Iienfield, Sussex. — The 
following is a list of my doings at Hen- 
field and neighbouring woods during a 
stay of three weeks : — 
Apatura Iris, 6 
Leucophasia Sinapis, 1 
Tliecla Betul®, 40 
Vanessa Polycliloros, 2 
Cerigo cytherea, 1 
Lophopteryx Camelina, 2 
Miltochrista miniata, 1 
Plerostoma palpina, 1. 
— W. H. Draper, Chichester ; Sept. 8, 
1850. 
Spilosoma lubricepeda in the West of 
Scotland. — You say in the ‘ Manual’ for 
September, p. 148, that Lubricepeda 
“ does not occur iu Scotland.” In this 
neighbourhood it is a pretty common in- 
sect, and for the last six years I have 
taken it every year in some considerable 
numbers. All the gardens in the village 
of Prestwick, about a mile from Monk- 
ton, furnish both the perfect insect and 
the caterpillar ; the latter iu abundance. 
— John P. Duncan, Monk ton, Ayrshire; 
Sept. 0, 1850. 
Spilosoma lubricepeda in the West of 
Scotland. — In your ‘ Manual’ I observe 
Lubricepeda is not allowed to live in 
Scotland. This won’t do. Dr. Colqu- 
houn and I have bred this species for 
several years from larvae picked up in 
September. This spring the perfect in- 
sect was iu plenty in the neighbourhood 
of Dunoon. I have also taken it in 
Bute, and Dr. Colquhoun in Ayrshire. — 
T. Chapman, Glasgow ; Sept. 10, 1850. 
[It is very satisfactory to see how 
promptly any error is detected ; the above 
are samples ol several letters Iroin \\ est 
Scotland, but no one has claimed it as a 
native of East Scotland. What are its 
limits of distribution Eastward ? On the 
line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail- 
way, does it stop at the Falkirk Station ? 
or does it reach as far as Linlithgow ? or 
is Kirkintilloch its Eastern limit ?] 
Callimorpha Jacobcecc common in some 
parts of Scotland. — At page 149 of the 
‘ Manual,’ you mention that C. Jacobceae 
is “in Scotland a great rarity.” At one 
lime this might have been so, but not 
now. I have taken the larvae in some 
numbers off the Senecio Jacobcea , and 
also off 5. vulgaris in Fifesbire, parish of 
Falkland, and near Kinross; in Perth- 
shire, from Kinnoul Hill ; but, so far as 
I can learn, it has not been found in 
Ayrshire, though the Senecio Jacobcea is 
very abundant. It occurs to me that it 
is fond of elevated situations, rather an 
alpine species, at least iu Scotland ; for 
in all the localities where I have found 
it, it was at a considerable elevation 
above the level of the sea or the sur- 
rounding valleys. — John P. Duncan, 
Monhton, Ayrshire ; September 6, 1856. 
Oporabia filigrammaria. — On Sunday 
last I took several very fine specimens of 
the above insect; “on the wall” is cer- 
tainly a very precarious method of find- 
ing them. I found out their peculiar 
habits, and can therefore take them at 
all times, to a certainty, by looking for 
them. I also took about a dozen of what 
I think will prove to be a new Euthalia ; 
if not neiv, it is certainly a permanent 
variety ; some of them are really elegant, 
and, like all the genus, are very variable ; 
the situation is so totally at variance 
with the haunts of Elutaria, and the 
characters are so positive that it leaves 
more room for distinction than Ruberaria 
and Impluviata. I will leave it in more 
competent hands to decide. I took 
Filigrammaria , in fine order, off a lamp 
close to my door. Where has this come 
from? no place at all likely nearer than 
from ten to fourteen miles, unless it has 
come with the heath brought to town, as 
