THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Captures at West Wickham . — I made 
the following captures at West Wickham 
on the 6th inst. : — 
Sesia Fucifonnis (3), 
Trochilium Culiciforme (I), 
Macroglossa Stellatarum (1), 
Nemeophila Plautaginis (2), 
Pyrausta purpuralis (2). 
— Charles Healy, 4, Bath Place , Hag- 
gerstone, N.E.; June 8. 
Captures near Sheffield. — On the 4th 
inst. I and a friend, Mr. Moore, being 
provided with a two-yards-square sheet, 
took the route for Maltby Woods, where 
we arrived at 9 a.m. We put the sheet 
together, and began to beat some large 
elms, oaks, &c. : we beat about two 
hours, and took 100 larvae of Thecla W- 
album, two of T. Quercus and three 
more, which no doubt will be X. Gilvago 
( C . t.rapezina was of course at every 
corner of the sheet), one Geometra Papi - 
lionaria, one P. Syringaria, three N. 
Hispidaria , and a few other strange 
Geometrae. We then wrapped up the 
sheet, and took to our nets and worked 
hard till three in the afternoon : we took 
N. Lucina, T. Alveolus, T. Pages, P. Syl- 
vanus, P. Staliees, C. Jacobccce , P . Pur- 
puralis, one B. Pandalis (this insect 
seems rare this year) and E. Decoloraria. 
We returned home quite satisfied with 
our journey. — James Batty, 133, Bath 
Street, Park, Sheffield ; June 7. 
Captures in Argyleshire. — Last week, 
on new ground, four miles north of Kil- 
muu, I met, for the first time, with 
M. Stellatarum, T. Laricaria and Bolys 
Decrepitalis (see Ent. An., 1856, p. 32). 
Laricaria sits closely pressed on the bark 
of larches, and is very unwilling to move, 
requiring a pull to take them off. The 
females are equally unwilling to lay 
their eggs in confinement, having ob- 
tained only nine eggs from five indi- 
viduals. The eggs are oval, dull and of 
a delicate green. — Thomas Chapman, 
Glasgow ; June 7. 
Duplicates. — I have been very success- 
ful in taking A. Euphrosyne and 21/. Ar- 
temis, and shall be glad to exchange for 
almost any local or South- country butter- 
flies or moths: those who are in want of 
them had better write first, and state 
what they have to spare. — J. Robinson, 
Jackson Street, Groves, York ; June 8. 
Entomological Excursion to Roche 
Abbey. — On the 2nd inst., in company 
with Mr. W. Green, 1 visited the above 
charming spot, which for beauty of 
wooded scenery has few equals, and 
where a great many of the British butter- 
flies love to disport themselves on the 
margins of the beautiful wooded hills 
and vales. The following is a summary 
of our captures : — N. Lucina (60), A. Eu- 
phrosyne, T. Tages, T. Alveolus, E. Gly- 
phica, P. Purpuralis, A. Cardamines, 
E. Angularia, S. Ribesaria, E. Decolor- 
aria, and 95 larvae of T. W- Album, just 
emerging from the chrysalis, and several 
larvae unknown to us. Mr. Green has at 
present about 400 of the larvae of II. 
Dispar, which he will be glad to exchange 
with any entomologist for other local 
species; he has also 112 S. Carpini, 
male, which he took by the attraction of 
one female. — W. LI. Smith, Eccleshall 
Nciv Road, Sheffield ; June 7. 
Eggs for Distribution. — My notice 
of last autumn respecting Ptilodontis 
palpina and Nolodonla diclaea brought 
many requests for eggs or larva of one or 
both species, if I obtained any. Such of 
these as I entertained I answered, pro- 
mising to place the names on the list. 
I beg now to say that I have obtained 
impregnated eggs of both insects, and 
before this notice appears each person on 
the list will have received a small batch 
of such as they respectively wished for. 
The matter has been some lime on hand, 
and the applications dropping in through- 
out the winter, possibly some names may 
have been omitted : any one therefore 
who holds a promise from me, and who 
has not already received a supply will 
