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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
cus,” but, ou cutting down a young ash 
(I know the owner of that wood never 
reads the ‘Intelligencer’), and thus rig- 
ging a twenty-foot net, we secured one of 
these “ Quirks,” as we irreverently mis- 
name his Purple Majesty’s most purple 
servitor, and as we gazed on his spotless 
anal angle, “ W -album !” spouted from 
both our lips. Unfortunately we were 
late in the season, and the specimens 
were rather worn — but next year ! ! This 
I think nearly completes the list of but- 
terflies worthy of notice which we have 
taken this year : the moths, among which 
were many prizes, I reserve for some 
future notice. And I must here beg 
pardon for remarking that I do not pro- 
pose to give localities, within some twenty 
miles, thus publicly: an advertisement 
for the purchase of twenty gross of 
P. Arlaxerxes leads me to this determi- 
nation : tweuty gross! may they haunt 
the advertiser’s slumbers with their in- 
cessant wings, and prick the conscience 
of the pander who may collect them with 
twenty gross of entomological pins No. 1 ! 
For Thecla W-album and Betulce at least, 
and I believe and hope C. Dispar , I 
possess new localities, which I shall be 
happy to communicate to every true 
Lepidopterist — every one wdio would 
think it a crime, equal at least to the 
murder of the Innocents, to clear a 
locality, be his w'ants ever so great. 
After this outburst of temper (for which, 
however, I feel secure of absolution from 
all whose opinion I value), I return to 
our captures. We gave up hopes of 
Dispar , &c., because the time for T. lie- 
tula: was drawing near, and we were in 
many instances pledged to our numerous 
correspondents of last year to scud them, 
when possible, better specimens ; and I 
cannot help here according them, as a 
body, my best thanks for the very gentle- 
manly and liberal manner in which I 
was, in every instance but two, then 
treated. But space is failing me ; briefly, 
then, since our arrival in North Wales, 
rain has fallen almost daily, and Quei-ci 
were spoiling on the trees ; we now take 
them belter in the rain with two twenty- 
feet poles, one for beating, the other for 
carrying the net; we have thus taken 
eighty, and they are innumerable, but 
rather passe. T. Betulce came out yester- 
day ; they are very local , and we took 
five — males, of course. This Thecla 
usually accompanies aud fights furiously 
with T. Quercus on the oak, but is rather 
more ready to settle, and thus falls an 
easier prey : a windy day drives them all 
to the lee of the wood, and then there 
are pretty pickings, but certainly wind 
injures them more than rain, and fighting 
more than either. This will be probably 
my last Welsh campaign for some years, 
as I intend passing some time in New 
Zealand, but the English ‘ Intelligencer ’ 
will be always a welcome guest, aud I 
shall hope occasionally to intrude some 
“Doings in the Antipodes” among its 
columns. Should this meet the eye of 
any naturalist taking interest in some 
special branch, I shall be most happy to 
communicate with him. Allow me, in 
conclusion, to state to all those gentlemen 
to whom I last year promised specimens 
of T. Betulce , that I intend sending boxes 
whenever I shall have caught and set a 
sufficient number. Any letters may be 
addressed “ Uphill House, Weston-super- 
Mare,” or “ Cemmaes, Shrewsbury,” which 
will then be forwarded to me. — William 
D. Crotch, Cemmaes, Shreivsbury ; 
Any us t 10. 
Troehilium Myopaforme. — I have re- 
ceived so many applications for T.Myopcc- 
forme, in consequence of the notice of my 
captures in the ‘Intelligencer,’ that I 
cannot possibly answer all. Those, there- 
fore who do not hear from me must con- 
clude that my stock of duplicates is ex- 
hausted. — T. Wild man, Grove Place, 
Camberwell ; August 13. 
Gelechia vclocclla. — The larva of this 
species feeds on the flowers of the sorrel 
( llumex acetosa), constructing silken gal- 
