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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Street, Hyde Park Gardens ; February 
21, 1857. 
Plusia orichalcea. — Three specimens 
of this insect have occurred at Dursley, 
in Gloucestershire. This locality was 
omitted accidentally in the ‘ Manual.’ — 
H. T. Stain ton ; March 27, 1857. 
Ennomos illustraria. — I bred a fine 
female this morning from an egg laid by 
one of the autumn brood. — A rthur 
Naisii, Brooklyn Lodge, Ashley Ilill, 
Bristol ; March 21, 1857. 
Phigalia Pilosaria. — On a cage out of 
doors I found this morning a fine male 
specimen of Phigalia Pilosaria, attracted 
by an apterous female, which had 
emerged from a pupa within. — William 
Buckler, Lumley Cottage, Emsworth ; 
February 24, 1857. 
Geomelra Pupilionaria . — I have taken, 
with the aid of a friend, seven or eight 
larvce of this insect during the last few 
days, from the birch. — R. H. Fremlin, 
Wateringbury, near Maidstone ; February 
17, 1857. 
Nepticula Septembrella. — During the 
last two months I have collected several 
of the pup* of this insect in the blad- 
dery-mined leaves still remaining on the 
Hypericum, where it grows in sheltered 
places in woods. — H. T. Stainton; 
March 27, 1 857. 
Larva of Micr apteryx. — Mr. Gregson 
thought he had found last year a clue to 
the food of this “ great unknown,” from 
having obtained the pup* in lichen. I 
have not heard that any one has suc- 
ceeded in finding the larva, and am 
curious to know whether Mr. Gregson 
has himself been successful in the search 
for it. — In. 
Captures near Carlisle. — Whoever may 
visit Bar ui Wood in July or August, 
eleven miles south-east of Carlisle, in 
East Cumberland, whether entomologi- 
cal ly or botanically, successfully or un- 
successfully, will, I am sure, feel grati- 
fied, as the journey (though it may be 
attended with trouble and fatigue, being 
over a rough scraggy country, but which 
is overcome by its beautiful and romantic 
scenery) from the top of Blaes Fell, 
Baron Wood in the distance, is a view of 
the highest mountains in England, viz., 
Cross Fell, Skiddaw, Shap and Helvel- 
lyn ; the Scottish hills and Geltsdale 
Forest, in the east, may be considered to 
complete the landscape. A little to the 
left of Blaes Fell lies Baron Wood, where 
the river Eden rolls rapidly between it 
and the Coombs Wood, on whose fertile 
banks grow numerous plants worthy of 
botanical investigation, as so may be the 
time-worn rocks that hem the Eden on 
both sides, clad in gay colours of various 
plants, Solidago virgaurea and Campa- 
nula rotundifolia adding a bright lustre 
to the scenery ; but still brighter and 
more stately, observable along the edge 
of the Coombs, grow Trollius Europceus 
and Aquilegia vulgaris, wild, and free 
from the hands of the florist, whose tall 
figures stand amidst their native air high 
above their lesser companions. It is now 
that the Sylvia atricapilla (Blackcap 
warbler) raises its tuneful voice ; now 
the woodpigeon’s ( Columba palumbus) 
mild and plaintive note issues from the 
sheltered wood : evening approaches, 
which may be termed the harvest of the 
entomologist, and the screech is heard of 
the Strigidxe ; their lurking character 
renders all around you wild and solitary. 
It is in this locality that the writer has 
taken many insects: last year, on the 
28tli of April, I met with a fine male 
specimen of Cerura vinula, aud from the 
sallows I beat out Noctua leucographa 
and Calocampa exolcta, and others ; the 
latter being hybernating insects, and are 
taken in the spring. Diantheecia con- 
spersa fly on the 15th of June in the 
evening ; wet or dry they will take the 
wing, quick in motion, but not to any 
distance ; they drop soon upon the 
flowers of Lychnis Flos-cticuli : of this 
moth several were taken by me last 
year, as well as in 1855. Melanippe has - 
