THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Claudius. — We have received several 
letters highly approving of your proposal 
of an alphabetical list of Lepidoplera, 
and one entomologist intimates his in- 
tention to subscribe for three copies of 
the work. 
Old Chaklie. — A correspondent writes 
that you can obtain the London Catalogue 
of Plants at Mr. Pamplin’s, Frith Street, 
Soho, London. 
CAPTURES. 
LePIDOI'TEBA. 
Grapla C-album. — Several specimens 
of this insect^have been captured lately 
near here by Mr. Ablett Jesse. — R. Ward, 
Llanbeck Hall, Ruthin, Denbighshire; 
April 30. 
Acherontia Atropps. — I was yesterday 
working in a large hot-bed frame, in 
which I last year grew early potatoes, 
when I was both surprised and delighted 
to find, betwixt one end of the frame and 
the other, seventeen good specimens of 
pupae of the Death’s Head moth. I am 
only a young entomologist, but am in- 
formed that it is a rare occurrence in this 
locality ; it will be a source of encourage- 
ment to me in my new undertaking, and 
will also enable me to make a few pre- 
sents to my entomological brethren, who 
are becoming numerous here. — John 
Richardson, Cabinet Maker, Trinity 
Church Terrace, Ripon ; April 24. 
Night Rambles in quest of Lepidoptera. 
— It may not be uninteresting to many 
of your readers if I give an account of 
my night rambles in search of Lepi- 
doplera. Having taken the hints thrown 
out several times by the ‘ Intelligencer ’ 
of the advantages of night work, I deter- 
mined to put it in practice this spring, 
and accordingly I commenced on the 7th 
of February, — a cold, frosty, uncomfort- 
able night, — and, after searching hedge- 
rows and any warm-looking nook, I at 
last caught sight of Hybernia Leucophe- 
aria, on the top of some dry grass, blow- 
ing to and fro in the wind : I took several 
of the species during the next fortnight, 
and also several larvae of Leucania Fallens 
and Mania Typica, March was also very 
cold, but it produced Hybernia Rupi- 
capraria, H, Frogemmaria, Anisopteryx 
AEscularia and also larvai of Epunda 
Lichenea, Mania Maura, Triphcena Fim- 
bria, Arctia Villica and several others. 
In the latter part of the month I went to 
visit the sallows, but they were looking 
solitary and calkinless; they had a most 
miserable look altogether, and so I soon 
left them. April was cold and back- 
ward, and the nights far from templing for 
any one to leave a warm room to ramble^ 
but “ Perseverance ” was for the time 
my motto. I succeeded in taking larvae 
of Arctia Villica, Epunda Lichenea and 
Lutulenta, Triphcena Orhona and Fim- 
bria. On the 7ih I again visited the 
sallows; it was a wet night, and, in the 
intervals of rain, I took my positions, 
but, though the catkins were just coming 
in bloom, I saw nothing. A few nights 
later I again tried the sallows, when a 
few Teeniocampce showed themselves, 
such as Cruda, Instabilis, Stabilis and 
Gothica and Scopelosoma Satellitia ; on 
ihe trunks of trees Biston Frodromaria 
and some apterous-looking species. It 
seems very strange, but when I saw a 
cow-house, with rank weedy banks around 
it, I was sure to find larvae there ; in fact, 
the larvae of Fhlogophora Meticulosa were 
as thick as possible— they were in swarms. 
In this way I have found very many 
larvae that I am unacquainted with, par- 
ticularly on the dock ; one must turn 
the leaves over, for they hide under 
