THE SUBSTITUTE. 
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CAPTUEES. 
Sphinx Convolvuli, — At Credi- 
ton, on the 15th September, 1855, 
I caught a splendid female speci- 
men of Sphinx Convolvuli flying 
before the flowers of the honey- 
suckle. — G. F. Mathews, Ra- 
leigh House, Pillon, near Barn- 
staple; October 10, 1856. 
Colymbetes fuscus. — When I 
was walking on Blackheath yes- 
terday I saw a beetle fly into a 
little water in the road. I showed 
it to papa, who said it was Colym- 
betes fuscus, a water-beetle he had 
never seen fly. — L auka A. Doog- 
LAS, 6, Kingswood Place, Lee; 
October 13, 1856. 
Larvae near Rotherham in Sep- 
tember. — By kind permission of 
the proprietors of an extensive 
nursery I set to work in good 
earnest about nine o’clock one 
morning, and by three in the 
afternoon had the pleasure of bag- 
ging the following game ; — Apa- 
tela leporina, Acronycta Alni, 
Smerinthus Populi, Biston Belu- 
laria, Cerura bifida, Leioeampa 
dictcea, both kinds of larvte, green 
and brown, and for the first time 
Leioeampa Dictceoides. Most of 
the larvae I found upon Populus 
nigra, P. tremula, and Betula 
alba. — William Eodgers, Gar- 
dener, Moorgate Grove, Rother- 
ham ; October 17, 1856. 
Nepticula Septembrella. — On 
the 19th inst., at the side of one 
of the paths in Darenth Wood, I 
found a few plants of Hypericum, 
of which it is no exaggeration to 
say that every leaf was tenanted 
by a larva of Nepticula Septem- 
brella. These larvae were in all 
stages of growth, the mines varying 
in size from the merest indication 
to the great discoloured final 
blotch. A search now of the Hy- 
pericum plants, in sheltered situa- 
tions, would reward any one who 
would look for these larvae. — J. W. 
Douglas, Lee; October 22, 1856. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
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Notes by an Old Collector . — I 
passed the “ Jolly Sailor,” near 
the Croydon railway line, in com- 
pany with a brother collector 
named David Edwards: we went 
under the arch of the railway and 
turned to the right, crossing the 
fields towards Croydon, and leaving 
the railway on our right hand, we 
came to a portion of the remains 
of the Croydon canal. On the left 
side of the canal stood a bush of 
the sallow. I said to my friend, 
look out for the larva of Kittens 
to-day, this region is highly 
favourable for their growth ; here 
is a sallow ; from similar ones in 
Cumberland I have obtained 
scores. I struck the bush, and 
two beautiful caterpillars of Ce- 
rura furcula came into my in- 
verted umbrella. We proceeded 
onwards and Mr. Edwards cap- 
tured some, and I got three more. 
I was a quarter of an hour one 
day in the Wood, that stood in 
front of the Crystal Palace, at 
Norwood, and I captured the 
larva of the Notodonta Dromeda- 
rius, N. Ziczac, Cerura furcula, 
and Pterostoma palpina. I ex- 
pected to find them, and did so, 
because I had obtained them from 
a similar situation in Cumberland, 
and so I should expect to find the 
same species of moth under the 
conditions requisite. Going along 
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