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descriptions are scanty ; the figures are 
as good as you can expect. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidopteba. 
Grapta C-album at West Wickham . — 
On the 29th ult. a hybernated specimen 
of G. C-album was captured by Mr. Holy- 
day in West Wickham Wood. — Charles 
Healy, 74, Napier Street, Hoxton, N. ; 
May 14. 
Deilephila Livorniea. — A fine speci- 
men of this insect has just been brought 
to me to set out; it was taken, near here, 
at rest among some grass and weeds in 
a hedge, and, from its appearance, cannot 
have left its pupa-case more than a couple 
of days. — Rev. J. Hellins, Exeter; 
May 14. 
Deilephila Livorniea . — On the evening 
of the 13lh I succeeded in capturing 
three specimens of this insect hovering 
over the flowers of the white Narcissus, 
their flight being precisely like that 
of M. Stellatarum . — R. M. Stewart, 
3, Park Place, Torquay, Devon ; May 14. 
[Mr. Stewart has kindly forwarded to 
us one of his specimens, and we can 
testify to its being, like the specimen 
mentioned by Mr. Hellins, in excellent 
condition and apparently quite fresh from 
the pupa,] 
Cerura Bicuspis. — Some of your 
readers will probably be interested in 
hearing that the pupa of Bicuspis, which 
I found near York last summer, pro- 
duced a fine male on Thursday last, the 
10th inst., and I am informed by my 
friend Mr. Birks, to whose kind care I 
entrusted it during my absence liom 
home, that it emerged between the hours 
of 7 p. M. and 12 p.m. — T.H. Allis; 
May 14. 
Notodonta Carmelita at West Wick- 
ham,— 1 had the pleasure of taking a 
female specimen of this much-prized in- 
sect, on the 14th instant, at West Wick- 
ham. — Charles Holyday, 16, Hunts- 
worth Terrace, Portman Market, N. W. ; 
May 15. 
Gastropacha ilieifolia. — On the 30th 
of April I took a ramble to the Moors, in 
search of the pupte of Phragmatobia fuli- 
ginosa, of which 1 found several, and 
amongst them a chrysalis of G. Ilieifolia ; 
the perfect insect emerged on the 9th 
inst. I am told it is very rare in this 
part of the country, having never been 
found near Ripou before. — W. Lickley, 
High Skillgate, Ripon ; May 14. 
Selenia illustraria. — Notwithstanding 
the almost unparalleled severity and 
backwardness of the season, this fine in- 
sect made its appearance as early as the 
29th of April, on which day a beautiful 
specimen, newly emerged, was observed 
sitting upon the trunk of a hornbeam tree 
in Cokethorpe Wood. — S. Stone, Bright- 
hamplon, Witney, Oxon; May II, 
Gelechia mulinella. — The larvae of this 
species is in the utmost abundance in 
the flowers of the Furze on Hampstead 
Heath. — C. Healy, 74, Napier Street, 
Hoxton, N.; May 14. 
Coleophora olivaceella. — This appears 
to be very scarce. I find the cases of it 
iu a very circumscribed locality near 
here, with Solitariella, in the proportion 
of one of the former to about 200 of the 
latter. I have only found two as yet 
this season. Two years since I found it 
in the same place, but, considering the 
cases as mere varieties of Solitariella, 
did not attempt to breed them. — Robert 
M'Lachlan, Forest Hill ; May 9. 
Coleophora ulcyonipennella. — This I 
found feeding on Serralula tincloria, a 
plant closely allied to Cenlaurea . — Ibid. 
Bucculalrix aurimaculella . — Those iu 
want of this pretty species should search 
the under side of the leaves of its food- 
plant, Chrysanlhemum Leucanthemum. 
for the cocoons; on the leaves 
cocoons in which the 0 -“* 
