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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
published in the Zoologist, fragments 
of Entomological Botany, — a nucleus, 
I* would fain hope, whence is to 
spring in coming years, and from his 
able hand, a digest in more extended 
form, and embracing all orders of 
phytophagous insects. In conclusion 
I will simply quote the words of 
Mr. Stainton, from the papers in 
question. “ The relation, he says, 
between plants and phytophagous 
insects is somewhat similar to that 
between the geological strata and the 
fossil imbedded in them ; we should 
laugh at the idea of a collector trav- 
elling about the country in search of 
them, yet totally uninformed as to 
the different strata in which they 
occur,’ and, we might add, apparently 
unconcerned, so long as his hammer 
finds occupation, and his arms the 
toilsome exercise he seeks in his lim- 
ited investigation of science ! 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
A List of Lepidoptera occurring in 
the neighbourhood of Plymouth, by 
J. S. Dell, Esq. 
Cucullia umbraticce. Frequent. Fly- 
ing at Flowers at dusk. 
Heliothis marginatus. Not common. 
Larva on Rest Harrow. 
IT. armigera. Not common. 
II. peltigera. Rather rare in the 
imago state. Larva in some 
numbers on Henbane. I have 
found them on the flowers of the 
Marigold. 
LTcliodes arbuti. Frequent. 
Abrostola urticcc. Frequent. 
Plusia chrysitis. Common. 
P. iota. Frequent. 
P. gamma. Common everywhere. 
P. orichalcea. Very rare. 
Oonoptera libatrix. Common. Larva 
on poplar. 
