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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
a midsummer day; so I set to work and 
boxed twenty-four of them, and twenty 
more the day following, when the wind 
became so strong tliat they could stand 
it no longer, and I have not seen one 
since, but hope I may when the wind 
ceases a little. In the woods I found 
Hyhernia Aurantiaria and Defoliaria, 
Cheimalobia Boreala, &c. — Thomas 
Hague, “ Dog and Partridge" Slaly- 
hridge; Nov. 16. 
CoLEOPTEBA. 
Captures in Renfrewshire. — When out 
collecting Coleoptera on the 6th inst., I 
picked up the following species: — 
Bolilochara lucida, Grav. (2), 
„ obliqua, Er. (20), 
Leptusa fumida, Er. (freely), 
„ ruficollis, Er. (freely), 
Oxypoda aterrima, Waterh. (31 new- 
species, — for description see ‘ Zoolo- 
gist’ for June, p. 6116), 
Tachyporus ruficollis, Grav. (6), 
liaptolinus altcrnans, Grav. (freely), 
Acidota crenata. Fab. (1), 
Deliphrum tectum, Payk. (4), 
Coryphium angusticolle, Kirby (28), 
Salpiugus ruficollis, Herbsl (7), 
„ viridipennis, Zeigl. (3), 
&c. &c. 
When out on the 13th I picked np a fine 
specimen of Sylvanus unidenlatus, Fab., 
which Mr. Murray has not recorded in 
his ‘ Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scot- 
land.’ — M. Young, Old Sneddon Street, 
Paisley; Nov. 16. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Caution to hasty and thoughtless Ento- 
mologists . — Last week’s ‘Intelligencer’ 
gave an account of some so-called barren 
lemales of Acherontia Atropos, but was it 
not rather the hasty desire of the owner 
to do that which was conlr.iry to nature 
and impossible i’ Now his great desire 
was to breed A. Atropos, and because he 
had two crippled females he thought to 
himself “ Any way, now, I will have a 
breed,” so accordingly turned a male to 
them, and supposed he could breed at 
any time of the year, — summer or winter, 
hot or cold, — and forgot that there was 
the God of Nature that had made laws 
at the beginning, and still upholds those 
laws, in spite of all that vain man can 
do. I would advise him and all other 
entomologists to take notice for the future 
of those laws of nature. Is it not mani- 
fest that all individuals which emerge at 
this time of the year do not breed, but 
hybernate, and breed in the spring, ami 
those which emerge in the spring breed at 
once.'* Therefore, all who desire to breed 
must keep their pupae until spring, when 
they will emerge, pair and lay their eggs, 
which will hatch when there is proper and 
sufficient food for them. — F. Buadley, 
Thompsons Square, PortobeUo Street, 
Sheffield; Nov. 8. 
List of Insects taken at Barnstaple, ^c., 
1858.— 
Pieris Brassicce. First seen April 26. 
„ Rapae. First seen March 23. 
„ Napi. First seen April 10. 
Anthocharis Cardamines. First seen 
April 23. 
Colias Edusa. Abundant, particularly 
in clover fields and ou warm banks. Saw, 
but did not catch, one of the light-coloured 
varieties ; it might have been Hyale. 
Theda Quercus. Scarce. July 24. 
„ Rubi. June 7th till end of 
July; a very pugnacious insect. 
Polyommatus Argiolus. Rare. 
„ Agestis. Braunton Bur- 
rows; common. 
Argynnis Paphia. Abundant. 
„ Aglaia. 
„ Adippe. Moist meadows ; 
scarce. 
„ Euphro.syne. May 5, abun- 
dant. 
„ Selene. May U). 
Mdituiu Artemis. Scarce. 
