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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Hybrid Smerinlhus Ocellatus and 
Populi bred. — I have succeeded this 
season in breeding the above insects ; it 
is only nine weeks since the eggs begun 
to hatch, and last Thursday I had the 
pleasure of finding four beautiful speci- 
mens in my breeding-cage: since then 
six more have appeared, all perfect. 
I have only to add that Young Barnes 
shall not have one, whatever he offers. — 
Thomas Hague, Dog and Partridge Inn , 
S taley bridge ; September 1. 
Another Scotch Colias Edusa. — I wrote 
to you last week informing you of my 
having taken Colias Edusa : I have to- 
day been so successful as to catch another 
specimen, a male, in good condition. On 
the forenoon of Wednesday the 26th, I 
saw — but, alas ! only saw — and ran after 
another beautiful Edusa. My first cap- 
ture was a comparatively simple affair, 
but to-day’s “take” demonstrated to my 
mind, in the most lucid manner, the 
truth of your words that Edusa is ex- 
ceedingly “ swift on the wing.” I was 
standing, net in hand, on an embank- 
ment, on one side of which is a field of 
turnips and potatoes, listlessly gazing 
upon the “ whites” and “ walls” as they 
pursued their vagarious flight, when sud- 
denly my latent energies were fully 
aroused — Edusa flitted by. Not a second 
did I delay, but, jumping down from the 
embankment, and regardless of future 
actions for trespass or damages attendant 
upon a destruction of agricultural pro- 
duce, I rushed straight into the midst of 
the turnips in pursuit of my beautiful 
Golden-wing. Here, there — backwards, 
forwards and round-about— we ran ; now 
trampling down turnips, and again rush- 
ing, pell-mell, through the potatoes. The 
exercise was getting rather too violent, 
and I felt that, if the chase was not 
speedily ended, my breathing apparatus 
(rather out of order, by the way) would 
refuse to work. 1 had made two false 
“ hits,” and my game was beginning to 
grow wild, when, luckily for me, after a 
hard run of about five minutes, my prey 
took to earth. The opportunity was not 
lost, and in a minute more C. Edusa was 
consigned to my collecting-box, anon to 
take a place among my choicest treasures. 
— William S. Thorburn, Southerness, 
by Dumfries ; August 31. 
Deilephila Galii. — Yesterday evening 
1 caught a fine specimen of this insect in 
our garden over some Verbenas : it was 
a female. This year I got a fine speci- 
men of Colias Hyale, which was caught 
by a friend. — J. R. Griffith, Brighton 
College; September 3. 
Argynnis Lathonia. — A brother of 
mine took, three weeks since, on a chalky 
waste near Margate, a pair of Argynnis 
Lathonia , in good condition. There is 
no doubt about the insect. — J. W. A. 
Edwards, 69, Camden Road Villas; 
September 3. 
Colias Edusa in Scotland. — A specimen 
of the Clouded Yellow ( Colias Edusa) 
was captured a few days ago in Kirk- 
mahoe; and on Tuesday seven were 
taken, and a good number more seen, 
near Glencaple Quay. As there is only 
one recorded capture of this favourite of 
entomologists in Scotland, we hope some 
of them may escape the ruthless net of 
the collector ; and we may soon be able 
to look on it as one of our local species. 
— Dumfries Herald; September 4. 
Deilephila Galii. — Since I wrote on 
Wednesday I have obtained another 
D. Galii in this neighbourhood. I was 
returning home on Friday, the 4th inst., 
when I met a small boy with something 
folded in a cabbage-leaf, with which he 
had just been to mv house. A glance dis- 
closed a wing of Galii. 1 gave up all hope 
of getting anything but its effigy, when, 
upon being turned out, to my astonish- 
ment, I found a fine, perfect, unrubbed 
female specimen of this much-prized 
moth. Like my first specimen, it was 
found on the ground, but oil the gravel 
walk of a gentleman’s garden in the 
town. Tlic night previous we had tor- 
