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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST 
in a damp situation, (probably in 
the water ) they dry and become 
useless. 
I do not know the larva or pupa. 
The perfect insects are common 
on the banks of the old cutting of 
the New River, at Wood Green. 
The water has been diverted through 
some new filtering beds in the neigh- 
bourhood, and the old course allowed 
to dry. The water gets very low 
during the summer, and coarse, 
weedy herbage is luxuriant on the 
banks. The moths fly about a 
quarter of an hour before the noctuce 
(xanthographa. dec.') come out. It 
does not fly for more than twenty 
minutes, or so, and beating is the 
only way to disturb them after that 
time. I found them most abundant 
in a bed of “ mare’s tail,” in the 
swampy mud of the river, and have 
seen them sitting on the plant im- 
derfectly expanded and drying their 
wings. They are, however, common 
enough amongst the tufts of rashes 
growing in and near the banks of 
the river, from which they can bo 
easily beaten when their flight has 
ceased. 
The moths come very freely to the 
gas lamps, but, as a rale, the speci- 
mens taken off the light are very 
much worn. 
About the middle of August was 
the tiino when tliey were most abun- 
dant. 
I- have had the pleasure of supply- 
ing very nearly all applicants, and 
those with whom I found myself 
unable to communicate, shall be 
borne in mind, and, if possible, shall 
receive specimens next year. I hope 
that this notice will be considered 
satisfactory. F. Lovell Keays, 4, 
JIarringay Villas , Groan Lanes, Tot- 
tenham, N. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Sphinx convolvuli . — I have got a 
flue specimen of S. convolvuli, taken 
in a garden at Clapton. It. W. 
Wright, Morland House, Well Street, 
Hackney, September 7. 
Doth species of Colias . — I have 
just returned from Dover and the 
South coast. I saw a Hyale. It was 
half way up the cliff; and, after 
making an insane and futile attempt 
to go after it, I lost sight of it. I 
only met with one Edusa. — F. 
Lovell Keays, 4, Haringay Villas, 
Green Lanes, Tottenham, September 
24, 1863. 
S. Convolvuli, &c . — I have had 
two specimens of Sphinx Convolvuli 
bronght to me by boys, taken by 
them in the street at rest on gate 
posts, utterly useless as specimens, 
and looking like clear wings. 
I have met with, in the lower 
part of Shooter’s Hill Wood, four 
specimens of Nonagria Fulva, also, 
one Ennomas Filiaria flying round 
the gas lamps at Charlton. There 
