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where he tells us (p. 12) “the fe- 
males are not met with on the wing 
so often as the males, some of which 
are very plentiful, but the female is 
rarely to be seen, — of which the Pur- 
ple Emperor is one capital instance. 
I have been informed Mr. Whitworth 
caught thirteen in one day, and but 
one female amongst them.*” 
I can readily credit this myself, 
for in three days I took twenty-three 
(nine of them in one day) but never 
took a female at all. The males usu- 
ally fly very high and are only to be 
taken by a bag net fixed to the end 
of a rod twenty or thirty feet long. 
There have been instances, though 
very rarely, of their settling on the 
ground near puddles of water, and 
being taken there. When the Pur- 
ple Emperor is within reach, no fly 
is more easily taken than he, for he is 
so very bold and fearless, that he will 
not move from his settling place un- 
til you quite push him off. You may 
even quite tip the ends of his wings 
and be suffered to strike him again, 
Harris, in the above Essay, has 
divided the genus Papilio ingeniously 
enough, into sections or families, 
from the number and position of the 
tendons in the wings, in a manner 
somewhat like that of my friend Jones 
in the Linn. Transactions. 
* There is a further and fuller account 
of this apparatus in the first volume of the 
;Linn. Tr. p. 135, by M. Esprit Giorva of 
Turin. 
To he continued 
OBSERVATIONS. 
LeMDOPTERA. 
A List of Lepidoptera occurring in 
the neighbourhood of Plymouth, by 
J. P. Dell, Esa- 
Geohetrixa. 
Our apteryx Sambucaria. Erequent. 
Taken in the Larva state on 
Bramble. 
Epione Apiciaria. Erequent. 
Burnt a Cratosgata. Yery common. 
Venilia Maculata. Common in woods. 
Angcrona Prunaria. Frequent. Larva 
taken in gardens on Pear Trees. 
Metrocampa Margaritata. Common at 
Bickleigh Woods. 
Peyicallia Syringaria. In gardens. 
Hot common. 
Selenia lllunaria. Yery common. 
S. Lunar ia. Bare. 
S. Illustraria. Hot common. 
Odontopera Bidentata. Common at 
light. 
Crocallis Elinguaria. Erequent. 
Ennomos Tiliaria, Frequently met 
with. 
E. Angularia. Hot common. 
ILimcra Pennaria. Occurs freely here. 
Phigalia Pilosaria. Hot Common. 
Amphidasis Prodromaria. Often met 
with in Spring on trunks of 
trees. Pupae at roots of oak. 
A. Betularia. Yery freely met with. 
LLemerophila Abruptaria. Frequent. 
On garden Walls. 
Boarmia Ltepandata and Bhomboida- 
ria. Yery common in Gardens. 
Gnophos Obscurata. Frequent. 
Tephrosia Crepuscularia. Occurs 
here freely. 
Tephrosia Punctulata. Hot common. 
