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Eudorea lineola, 
Pempelia diliUella, 
„ paliimbella, 
Tinea fulvimetrella, 
„ picarella, 
„ ochraceella, 
„ riisticella, 
Nemophova Schwarziella, 
„ pilella, 
Prays Curtisellus, 
,, variety? (rustiea) 
Plutella Dalella, 
Depressaria einiflonella, 
„ costosa, 
Gelecbia galbanella, 
„ sequax, 
Acrolepia granitella, 
Litbocolletis Vaeciniella, 
„ Messaniella, 
Nepticula Weaveri, 
(Douglas). 
{Desiderata to follow.) 
— Kichard Weaver, 25, Pershore 
Street, Birmingham : November 
14, 1856. 
Cheirnatobia brumaria. — I have 
many duplicates of Cheirnatobia 
brumaria, a species everywhere 
common I believe ; but as the 
females are not easily found, being 
apterous, and I having many, 
they perhaps may be useful to 
some. You must not send boxes 
on application for them, but send 
lists first. — E. S. Noecombe, 
Heavitree ; November 24, 1856. 
Lepidoptera. — I have some 
spare duplicates of 
Polyommatus Corydon, 
Biston Betularia, 
Orgyia Pudibunda, 
if any of your readers are in want 
of them. — William Gregory, 
24, Clandon Street, near South 
Street, Wahvorlh ; November 24, 
1856. 
CAPTUEES. 
Smerinthus Tilice, Biston hir- 
tarius, ^-c. — I have been pupa- 
digging tbe last few days in this 
neighbourhood, and have taken 
nearly two dozen of Smerinthus 
Tilia under elms and lime-trees ; 
also Biston hirtarius, and a large 
number of other species, of which 
I do not know the names. — R. 
King, 30, Chalcot Villas, Adelaide 
Road, Haverstoclc Hill; Novem- 
ber 18, 1856. 
Lepidoptera. — On the 19lb Oc- 
tober I took from off the trunk of 
a Scotch fir, in Wigmore Wood, a 
fine specimen of Nylina Rhi- 
zolitha on the same evening I 
captured two good specimens of 
Miselia Oxyacanthce ; and on the 
next evening two others, in good 
condition, hovering over the white- 
thorn, in Hambley Wood. On 
the 2nd November I obtained two 
more good specimens of Xylina 
Rhizolitha from off the trunks of 
Scotch firs, on the border of 
Hambley Wood. On November 
23rd I captured a good female 
specimen of Ptilophora Plumi- 
gera, in a lane leading from Lu- 
ton to the Great Cowbeck Woods. 
— W. Chaney, 20, Upper Britton 
Street, New Brompton, near Chat- 
ham, Kent; November 23, 1856. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
To Preserve Dragon-flies . — The 
following method of preserving 
that very beautiful, but much 
neglected, section of insects — the 
Dragon-flies — I have found to 
succeed very well, more particu- 
