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yon for inserting the “ Plea for 
Insects,” though I do not think * 
your remarks at the end are a suf- 
ficient answer to it, while they 
seem to forbid further expression 
of 0 |iinioii. You seem to fasten 
upon me two notions, which I 
must at once disavow, and my 
article does not appear to me to 
express (1) that it is possible to 
force men to he good, and (2) that 
I expect all entomologists to he 
memhers of the church to \rbich I 
belong. — E. Houton, Wick, Wor- 
cester ; Januarrj 3, 1857. 
Errata. — At p. 130, col. 2, line 
18, for “ pastime” read “ motive,” 
and p. 131, col. 1, line 27, for 
“ mostly ” read “ entirely.” — I d. 
[We insert this note because 
our correspondent thinks we have 
not been quite fair to him ; but 
we adhere to our determination 
not to have an argument on the 
question. We know loo well what 
it would lead to. .'Already the 
parties spoken of are saying they 
are misrejiresented, and we should 
soon be in the midst of an acri- 
monious controversy, out of which 
no good would come.] 
Two Dni/s Iluntinf! of Biitter- 
Jlies and Moths in SaJfoUc . — I left 
London July 21, and when riding 
from the station to the “ Old 
House at Home” I noticed a 
good number of 1 hccla W- Album 
on some thistles by the road side. 
There I had found them for seve- 
ral years previously : three years 
ago I took thirty specimens in a 
few minutes. This time, however, 
mv nets were as vet all packed up, 
so' I did not disturb them. After 
spending a pleasant evening with 
old friends I arranged my nets 
and boxes ready for the morrow. 
Morning arrived, and I started at 
five o’clock for a wood where I 
expected good sport. On my way 
there I beat three splendid speci- 
mens of Halias Qutrcana, and a 
number of other things from some 
young oaks. On I walked, net in 
hand, ready for W-Album ; but 
alas! the destroyer was before me: 
a labourer was that momeut en- 
gaged in trimming the hedge-row, 
and my hopes were like the bloom- 
ing thistles — prostrated: not a 
Theda was to be seen. After 
pelting the neighbouring elms till 
my arms ached, I succeeded in 
dislodging a few, and at last cap- 
tured half a dozen with great diffi- 
culty with my Emperor net, for 
they would not come down, but 
flew hurriedly round the tops of the 
trees when disturbed and soon 
alighted again. 1 was sadly dis- 
appointed, as I had promised to 
supply a number of friends with 
this species. W-Album is very 
uncertain in its flight ; I have 
sometimes seen the hedges swarm, 
ing with them ; the next day they 
would be on the tops of the elms 
and not come down for several days. 
Some years ago I suddenly lost a 
whole colony of them : I had daily 
seen them round the elms, but one 
morning I missed them. Two 
days afier 1 found them swarming 
on a field of mustard in full bloom a 
short distance off : they did not then 
attempt to ascend to the trees, but 
kept flitting about like the Small 
Copper and Blue Butterflies. 
Arrived at the wood I chose a 
small open Sjiace to commence 
operations in, where the honey- 
sucklesand brambles bloomed pret- 
tily around the low bushes. In a 
few minutes a fine female Argyn- 
nis Paphia was in my net: I 
pinned her to a bramble, and in a 
