THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST 
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Weekly Entomologist, No. 11. 
: 86. last line. Add. W. Prest, 
1 > Castlegate, York, as the notice 
leaded “ The mild season,” is by 
■hat gentleman, as well as the one 
ollowing. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
New method of obtaining eggs. An 
racident occurred to me in September 
.■'861, which I named to my friend 
itlr. Hellins at the time, and which 
« lay help some Entomologist to larvae 
t f species which they take in the im- 
.go state. One evening X took a 
tamale D. Capsincola which, when 
1 rought to the light I found too much 
Jittered to be worth setting. Next 
j lorning I found it dead in the pill 
I ox. Two days after I burst the ab- 
omen and squeezed out the eggs, — 
other roughly, I confess, for I had 
ot, at the time, any ulterior object, 
separated the eggs from the glutin- 
ous matter which enveloped them. 
Strange to say, on opening the box 
about ten days after, I found it full 
of tiny larvm and empty egg-shells, 
I succeeded in feeding, and, even- 
tually, in breeding, a good series, 
Might not this method be tried with 
some of Mr. Crewe’s, “ refractory 
females” — E. Pulchellata etc ? Henry 
Moore, 23 Berners Street, Oxford 
Street, London, W. 
C APTTJRES. 
CoLEOPTERA. 
Captures near Exmouth. We went 
over to Exmouth on the 21st. inst. 
and took Lixus sulcirostris in tolerable 
plenty, and Otiorhynchus atroapterus. 
J. C. Dale, Bndleigh Salterton, 
Devon. 
Neuroptera. 
Captures in Devon. We have taken 
here, a few Nemoura nitida Piet, — 
the same as at Kirkstone and a small 
black Leuctra which is, I think, new 
to me. Id. 
Lepidoptera. 
Insects bred. It may be of interest 
to some of your readers to know that 
on April 10th. I had the good luck to 
see A. Alni emerge from the chry- 
salis. I say “ to see,” for I happened 
to look in the cage just at the moment 
he wriggled out of the bramble stick 
in which he had been ensconced since 
September 1st. when I found the 
larva (the capture of which was rec- 
orded in the “Zoologist” for October. 
I was kept for some time in a state 
