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Medicus. — Your larvas are Eriogaster 
Lanestris ; they always occur by hun- 
dreds. 
CAPTURES. 
LePIDOI’XEEA. 
Sphecia Bemheci forme. — On the 4th 
insl. I had the pleasure of capturing the 
first of this species. I have looked every 
day since, and up to the present time have 
taken twenty-seven specimens. They 
are much later this season ; they ap- 
peared on the loth of June last season. — 
James Vabley, Almondbury Bank, Hud- 
dersfield; July 9. 
Trochilium Formicaforme . — I have 
mnch pleasure in recording the capture 
of three fine specimens of this insect, by 
• my younger brother, on the 2nd of July, 
close to a bed of osiers near this city. — 
■ J. T. Cakbington, Clifton, York. 
Limacodes tesludo. — Whilst beating 
for Coleoptera at Darenlh I have several 
times turned out this species during the 
past mouth, and once or twice the female 
, and male together. They have a peculiar 
way of quivering the wings, keeping them 
i in constant and rapid vibration, but not 
. attempting to fly out of the net. As I 
I did not know the species was generally 
1 wanted I only took a pair or so (which 
I have been given away). The pretty 
s silver-lines has been abundant (from 
; young oak) and one or two chocolate-tips, 
.Abroslnla urticce, und Trochilium cynipi- 
jforme have also intruded themselves 
lupon me in the same locality. — E. C. 
)Eye, 284, King’s Road, Chelsea, S. W. 
Pyralis costalis . — To-day I was sur- 
iprised at finding a specimen of this 
linsect, evidently just emerged from the 
jpupa, in an office up “ three pair” in the 
iheait of the city: had it been its con- 
Lgeiier, Farinalis, there would have been 
1 nothing extraordinary in ii,but a species 
ithat usually occurs in the country at 
autumnal sugarings must have been 
somewhat out of its latitude so far in 
town. Can it be a dry feeder and true 
native of “ the city?” — R. M‘Lachi.an, 
Forest Hill ; July 3. 
Hyponomeuta vigintipunctatus . — This 
species occurs in plenty in the neigh- 
bourhood of Witham, Essex, where I 
collected a number of the larvae on the 
29th of last month, feeding on the Sedum 
Telephium. — W. R. Jeffkey, 2, Huntriss 
Row, Scarboro’ ; J uly 6. 
Captures at Sugar . — On the 23rd of 
June, while sugaring for Thyatira Batis, 
I had the good fortune to take a fine 
specimeu of Acronycta Alni, which had 
just emerged from the pupa, and also 
three specimens of Cymatophora Fluc- 
tuosa, in Haw Park, near Walton Hall. 
— Chakles Robeets, Elrn Street, Wake- 
field ; July 3. 
COLEOPTEKA. 
Rhynchites beluleti. — I have taken 
both sexes of this beautiful species 
plentifully this year in the two-year-old 
clearings at Darenth. Early in the sea- 
son only stragglers, and those chiefly 
raiiles, are to be taken, settling in the 
sunshine on the leaves of any trees, 
though the hazel and dwarf aspen are 
their chief haunts. When found on the 
latter the small examples are at first 
sight hard to distinguish from large spe- 
cimens of populi (both species being 
variable in size), but they may be sepa- 
rated by looking at the under-sides, 
which in the latter are blue, the whole 
body being concolorous in betuleti. At 
the end of June, when coupling, they 
may be found abundantly by examining 
the top twigs of the hazel bushes, and 
while doing this a net or umbrella must 
be held underneath, as the insect is 
crafty withal, and will drop to the ground 
on very litile provocation ; in which an- 
noying “ dodge,” however, it is surpassed 
bv the larger Cryptocephali, which roll 
over and escape if merely looked at. In 
