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tire ground in pathways and roadsides. 
This moth {Asychna aralella) is a great 
rarity in our collections (nearly as much 
so as Cerura bicuspis), but the pod-like 
galls may be advantageously sought 
during the winter months : the larva will 
be found inside these galls, and does not 
change to the pupa-state till the month 
of April. 
TO COBRESPONDENTS. 
C. C. W. — In earth, covered with 
moss: moisten the moss occasionally. 
L. A. — We fear your captures are all 
too common. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidopteea. 
Captures near Kilburn. — I have very 
few captures worthy of note to record, but 
perhaps it may interest some of your 
readers to know that Colias Edusa has 
been taken here this season, as in most 
other places, in tolerable plenty — I could 
myself cite nearly fifty captures (chiefly 
males) ; Cynthia Cardui has been taken, 
but not in any abundance — perhaps 
twenty specimens; Vanessa Polychloros 
also showed itself occasionally during its 
season ; I have not heard that these three 
insects have been seen here before. A 
single specimen of Argynnis Adippe was 
taken, towards the end of July, on some 
waste ground near the church (St. Mary’s) 
— is not this remarkable so near London ? 
Thanaos Images and Pamphila Sylvanus 
may be netted in plenty on Wormw’ood 
Scrubs (about a mile and a half from 
here), and P. Linea may occasionally be 
taken there. Macroglossa Stellatarum 
was seen in this neighbourhood iu num- 
bers this year, but very few taken, being 
such swift flyers. Several specimens of 
Zeuzera ^sculi were boxed on trunks of 
trees and on scaffold-poles, &c., around 
buildings; and I am told that Catocala 
Niipia was taken freely at sugar on 
the Belsize Park estate, Hampstead. — 
Arthur Awormald, 10, Priory Road, 
Kilburn, N. W. ; Dec. 3. 
Captures in 1858. — Amongst my better 
captures in the past season I may men- 
tion the following: — 
Camptograinma fluviata. Iu the Isle 
of Wight. 
Agrotis hmigera. Isle of Wight. 
Heliophobus hispidus. Portland. 
Aporophila australis. Poitland. 
Heliothis dipsacea. Plentifully at 
.Lyndhurst, Hants. 
Spilodes sticticalis. Lyndhurst. 
Lithosia complanula. Bloxworth, Dor- 
set. 
Acidalia marginepuuctaria. Lynd- 
hurst and Bloxworth. 
CEcophora Lambdella. Bloxworth. 
Crambus latistrius. Lyndhurst 
„ sylvellus. \ Lyndhurst, 
„ uliginosellus. J plentifully. 
Acontia luctuosa. Isle of Wight. 
— Rev. 0. Pickaud-Cambridge, South- 
port, Lancashire. 
Captures near Birmingham. — I have 
taken, near Birmingham, Agrotis Saucia 
(nine specimens) and Heliothis margi- 
nata. — H. Barclay, Belgrave House, 
Frederick Street, Birmingham. 
Captures near Exeter. — During the 
past season I have taken the following 
species of Tineina, which are, I believe, 
not generally distributed: — 
Xysmatodoraa melanella. 
Tinea nigripunctella. 
Swammerdamia Pruni. 
Gelechia vilella. 
„ velocella. 
„ humeralis. 
„ celerella. Two on the 
warren at Starcross, started by 
turning over dried cow-dung. 
