THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
J. P. M., Ulverslone. — Your insect will 
be Gnophria rubricollis. 
W. H. D. — We are not aware of any 
work on East Indian Lepidoptera likely 
to be of service to you ; the ‘ Oriental 
Cabinet’ may prove of some assistance, 
but if you expect any work on Indian 
Lepidoptera with descriptions of all the 
species you may meet with, we fear you 
will have to wait a long time for it. 
P. Acis occurs somewhere in the vicinity 
of Herefordshire. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Cerura Bicuspis. — On the 20th inst. I 
went out for a day’s enlomologizing ; 
when I had fairly gained the hunting- 
ground where I intended to commence 
operations the rain began to come down 
ill torrents, so of course I concluded that 
to make the best of my way back was 
my wisest course, and commenced rny 
retreat accordingly ; but iu turning to 
shelter under some alders I was lioth 
surprised and delighted to see a beautiful 
specimen of a male Bicuspis silting on 
the trunk of one of the alders immediately 
above the pupa-case ; I immediately pro- 
ceeded to box it, considering myself as 
lucky as I bad a few moments before 
considered myself unlucky. This is the 
second Bicuspis which has fallen to my 
lot, having taken a pupa Irom an alder 
in 1858, but, unfortunately, being from 
liome when it emerged fioin the pupa it 
had so beat itself about that 1 had some 
doubts as to its being a bona fide Bicus- 
pis. — T. Meldbum, MiUgaie, Ripon. 
Gaslropacha Quercifolia. — By well 
searching the whitethorn in this locality 
I succeeded in taking twenty-five larvae 
of this fine species. — J oseph Potter, 
Countess Weir, near Exeter ; June 27. 
Acronycta Alni . — At our meeting on 
Thursday last a beautiful specimen of 
this insect was exhibited, which had been 
captured near Wakefield by Mr. Samuel 
Sorby (brother of one of our members) on 
the 19th instant. — H. S. Roxby, Hon. 
Secretary Naturalists’ Society; Wake- 
field, June 26. 
Erastria Venustula. — On the 14th inst. 
I had the pleasure of capturing a female 
of this species; it has fortunately laid 
me some eggs, which have since hatched. 
I have since taken several more; I think 
I shall have half a dozen to spare. — 
J. Bryant, 63, Old Broad Street, E.C.; 
June 26. 
A Day on the Moss in June. — I was 
comfortably seated at breakfast in Ken- 
dal on the morning of the 19th, when 
Mr. Butler walked iu, prepared for a day 
of it; a few minutes saw us started for 
Elston Barrows; on the way we picked 
up Mr. Roxbourgh and friend ; tra- 
versing the uplands we observed a few 
common species on the wing, Phy- 
tometra JEnea being line and plentiful. 
Scrambling down Coot Scar our work 
commenced in earnest, my friends tearing 
away after M. E upkrosyne and V. macu- 
laria, whilst my attention was given to 
Bulalis fusco-renea. Tinea imella, Plero- 
phorus playiodactylus, Eupithecia con- 
strictala, Larentia Sulicaria, &c. Being 
desirous of pushing on to the Mosses, 
which we could now see, we got down 
the escarpment of the Scar into the wood 
below ; here L. Sinapis and G. rubri- 
collis detained us; a little further down, 
and Ennychia oclomaculalis claimed our 
attention, and who could refuse its 
