THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoftera. 
How to make shift with cheap Ap- 
paratus . — I am only a beginner in Ento- 
mology, and was at first terrified by 
reading of the cabinets, nets, boxes, &c., 
that would be necessary ; but I contrived 
to get over that difficulty in the following 
manner: — First of all, I got an old plate- 
rack, and, with a little paint, easily con- 
verted it into a receptacle for specimens, 
quite as useful, if not as elegant, as a 
mahogany cabinet. For the net I got a 
stick about four feet long and an old 
hoop, knocked off a “ tumble-down ” 
barrel : these I fitted together, and got 
my sister to sew on an old muslin window 
curtain. Now, though this looks re- 
markably like a pillow-case on the end 
of a stick, yet I very much question 
whether an expensive net would have 
taken more prisoners than it has. As to 
boxes and corks, any old cork, from a 
bottle or elsewhere, fitted into a match- 
box, serves the purpose very well. And 
in various other ways, if the beginner 
would keep his eyes open and think 
nothing useless, he would find that En- 
tomology, far from being out of his reach, 
was at his finger’s ends. — L. S. 
Pupa Dipping . — It may perhaps inte- 
rest some of your readers to learn that, a 
few days ago, in an hour and a half’s 
di^eins at the roots of some elms, I ob- 
tained forty- five pupae ; one was S. Tiliw, 
others different Agrotis and Tceniocampce. 
I had the misfortune to cut in two another 
S. Tilice. Three days ago I obtained 
twelve more pupae ; yesterday seventeen. 
Well may you say, in the ‘ Song of the 
Moths,’ “Dig, dig, dig!”— J. G. Gren- 
fell, Rugby ; September 2. 
Capture of Deilephila Galii at Stoiv- 
market. — My gardener brought me in 
this morning a specimen of D. Galii. 
He found it on the lawn, the grass of 
which he was mowing, between a bed of 
Verbenas and Petunias: it was rather 
worn, but otherwise not injured. — C. R. 
Bree, Stricklands, Stowmarket ; Sept. 2. 
Duplicate Lepidoptera. — I have taken 
this season duplicates of the following 
insects, should any one be in want of 
them : — 
Thecla Rubi, 
Argynnis Aglaia, 
„ Euphrosyne, 
„ Selene, 
Ceropacha Flavicornis, 
Hadena Glauca, 
Cloantha Solidaginis, 
Brephos Parthenias. 
I shall be glad if any one will help me 
with — 
Pieris Crataegi, 
Leucophasia Sinapis, 
Colias Edusa, 
Thecla (any except Rubi), 
Polyommatus (any except Alexis ), 
Melitaea Artemis, 
„ Athalia, 
Vanessa Cardui, 
Erebia Cassiope, 
Pamphila Comma, 
„ Actaeon, 
Satyrus Davus. 
I shall also be glad of any addition to 
my collection of moths. — Edward S. 
Bonnet, Churchdale House, Rugeley. 
Grapla C-album. — Having a few du- 
plicates of this insect, in fine condition, 
to exchange, I shall be glad of any of 
the following species: — 
Colias Edusa, 
Erebia Cassiope, 
Liinenitis Sibilla, 
Nemeobius Lucina, 
Thecla Rubi, 
„ Betulee, 
Pieris Crataegi, 
Ccenonymplia Davus, 
Apatura Iris, 
Cynthia Cardui, 
Melitaea Cinxia, 
Polyommatus iEgon, 
Thymcle Alveolus. 
— Edward Morton, Ripon. 
