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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
Aporia Crataegi, 
Leucophasia Sinapis, 
Erebia Blaiidina, 
Polyoimnatus jEgon, 
„ Agestis, 
Callimorpha dominula, 
Arclia villica, 
Eiithemonia russula. 
— J. Jessop, Junk., Church 
Street, Rawmarsh, near Rother- 
ham. 
CAPTURES. 
“ A Rare Old Plant is the Ivy 
Green." — As ‘The Substitute ’ is 
a “ Fireside Companion,” by anti- 
thesis an account of “ doings in 
the frost” may prove not altoge- 
ther uninteresting. Dinner aud 
a final glass of port having been 
discussed, I received sufficient 
moral courage to say to my bro- 
ther, “ Suppose we take a lantern 
and visit the ivy which we saw in 
bloom to-day.” This remark was 
of course caught by the quick ears 
of the ladies, and elicited divers 
doubts expressed on their part as 
to our sanity, including belief in a 
sufficient stock of that quality in 
the moths to prevent their expo- 
sing themselves to such inclement 
W’eather. However, we sallied 
forth, not without iuward qualms 
and outward wrappers. The ivy 
reached, a lantern was held to 
throw a little light on the affair, 
and my brother cried “ I see n 
moth, — one, two, three.” “ Where? 
catch it then.” But the wind blew 
and out went the light, and after 
it every match struck to renew it. 
Two “vesuvians” (the initiated 
will understand) in succession 
raised a flame, and we began our 
search anew. The moths seen at 
first were S. satellitia, of which 
we took thirty- five ; we also took 
C. Vaccinii, O. lota, A. pistacina 
and Xanthia ferruginea ; this was 
our first night, and was rich in 
promise. Noisy was our greeting 
on return, for we affected no suc- 
cess ; only after a little of the re- 
nowned non-inebriating cup, we 
requested a loan of some steam 
from the tea-urn to kill our speci- 
mens, the sight of which so turned 
the tables in our favour that we 
have been ever since allowed to 
depart unmolested, save by a 
casual and harmless grin. The 
second night I discerned a long 
crumpled article motionless under 
an ivy flower. G. pronounced the 
said article to be C. exoleta, and 
recommended its speedy capture ; 
gingerly did we set about it, for 
the place was difficult; how to get 
him into the net was a puzzle, till 
in despair I proposed knocking 
him in ; the blow was struck, and 
the moth rolled an inert mass to 
the depths of his gauzy prison; 
neither pinching nor pinning dis- 
turbed his equanimity, and we 
naturally supposed him stunned, 
but finding the event recurrent we 
concluded that, having taken no 
pledge, ivy-intoxication was al- 
lowed among Noctucc at Christ- 
mas. Henceforth wo carried a 
small baton to tap them gently 
into the net. On this night, and 
a few following, we took fifteen 
C. exoleta, eight X. seniibrnnnea, 
some X, Lambda, and, “spes ul- 
tiina greg'.s,” D. rubiyinea ; once 
with a rustic and a plunge a 
downy monster— at least- 
plumped into my net; pinch him; 
he S(iueaks— claws and feathers — 
by all that’s Lepidopterous it is 
