.THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Mr. H. Beach, 
Mr. F. Fawkes, 
Mr. E. Lethbridge, 
Mr. A. Sidgvvick, 
Mr. W. Weston, 
Mr. T. Wilkinson, 
Mr. J. Braim, 
Mr. J. Dutton, 
Dr. Allchin, 
Mr. A. Pretor, 
Mr. J. Balding, 
Mr. Clarke, 
Air. T. Smithson. 
Some of my correspondents expressed a 
desire for specimens' of the insects 
offered. I am sure that this was unin- 
tentional, but I think a moment’s consi- 
deration would have satisfied them of 
the improbability, not to say impossibi- 
lity, of my being able to send more than 
one. I can now offer a specimen of 
Dodoncea and Megacephala to all the 
above ; to the first eighteen P. Populi 
in addition ; to the first twelve Palpina 
in addition, and to about the first nine or 
ten A. Liguslri in addition. In Dictcea 
I failed altogether. Should any of my 
correspondents think Dodonrea and Me- 
gacephala not worth the postage, they 
have nothing to do but to take no notice. 
Should ten days elapse without my hear- 
ing from any gentleman named in the 
above list, I shall assume that he does 
not want the insects, and shall replace 
his name by that of some one else. I 
may add, that as it will take some time 
to pack so many boxes, & c., some delay 
will necessarily arise in returning them. 
I here repeat that I expect no return for 
the insects. All I require is that the 
postage be paid ; and if any of my cor- 
respondents, at some future period, 
should happen to turn up some rarity in 
abundance, they will perhaps remember 
me. I conclude with an expression of 
regret that I am compelled to disappoint 
some, but I have worked long and hard 
to obtain even these. — Rev. J. Gkeene, 
Playfurd , Ipswich. 
Polyommatus Argiolus. — On. the 17tli 
inst. I with two friends paid a visit to 
Cauklow Wood in search of P. Argiolus, 
and after about three hours’ run, on 
taking stock, had succeeded in taking 
forty specimens in fine condition. — 
William Laycock, 154, Bath Street, 
Sheffield; May 18, 1857. 
Ennomos illustraria. — I had the plea- 
sure of capturing, on Friday last, a fine 
female specimen of this insect seated on 
some palings near Croydon, on the road to 
Wickham. — L. Roberts, 18, Montague 
Street, Russell Square. 
Drymonia Chaonia. — A male of this 
insect was brought me this morning from 
a street gas-lamp. — J. J. Reading, Ply- 
mouth ; May 19, 1857. 
Drymonia Chaonia. — I have taken a 
specimen of this insect at rest on the wall 
of a room. As no locality near this is 
mentioned in the ‘ Manual,’ this notice 
may be worth inserting. — J. McLach- 
lan, Hethersett, near Wymondham ; 
May 19, 1 857. 
Captures at Ashford. — On the 17th I 
had a long stroll on the W estwell Downs, 
near here, and brought home three Poly- 
ommatus Adonis, three Thymele Alveo- 
lus, six T. Pages, one Melilcea Artemis, 
&c. — A. Russell, Ashford; May 19, 
1857. 
Killing Large Moths. — [From the 
mass of letters we have received on this 
subject we select the following.] I think 
your Reigate correspondent must have 
applied the oxalic acid externally, and 
not internally. I am perfectly successful 
in killing the largest Lepidoptera with it. 
I make the solution as strong as possible 
with cold water, and with a steel pen 
pass it into the corslet under the wings, 
holding the pen there for a short time, 
and the insect is, in a few seconds, if not 
as dead as a herring, at least as dead as 
an entomologist, or even humanity, would 
have it. My laurel leaves are very 
harmless ; perhaps they are loo smoke- 
dried (existing as they do less than two 
