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of perturbation as to whether he 
would be a “ cripple” or not, as he 
showed no haste to expand his wings, 
but in due time my fears were dis- 
sipated, and he is now on the setting 
board, — as fine a male as ever flew 
(and perhaps finer, since he never 
flew,) — 1 in 7 1 lines expanse. 
The following have also made their 
appearance this season. Feb. 2nd. 
E. Albipundata Haw. ( Tripunctata 
H. S.) True to the charactere Mr. 
Crewe gave it, it was one of the first 
to appear. It has emerged in batches 
at intervals of a month, or five 
weeks. 
March 1st. E. Abbreviata. 
E. Virgaureata. Some of these 
and also of the next, have been in 
pupa since October 1861. 
April 8th. E. Venosata. 
April 18th. E. lsogrammata. 
I). Coryli. 
D. Falcula. 
April 8th. 1). Unguicula. 
April 10th. N. Dodoncea ; together 
with many of the commoner Noctuce. 
Henry Moore, 23 Berners Street, 
Oxford Street, London. TV. 
Captures in Devon. The following 
is an account of the sport we 
have had here. Curiously enough, 
we find many Northern insects. To- 
day my youngest son took Cnephasia 
lepidana of Curtis, which I have not 
seen alive since I took it near Am- 
bleside in June 1827, in company 
with Curtis. We have seen and taken 
several Gracillaria roscipennclla but 
none very good, and I rather want a 
good specimen or two. My son also 
took a beautiful female of Pontia bras- 
sicx, — the finest I have seen (not 
Char idea,) knocked down and lost P. 
Argiolus and took L. Phlceas. We 
also took two specimens of Peronea 
Mixtana, but they were worn, and 
saw two or three Fox Moths; — I 
nearly took one. This seems early 
for the above species. .J. C. Dale, 
Gian. Wootton, Sherborne. Dorset. 
A New British Noctua. In Octo- 
ber last I had the good fortune to 
capture, near here, two specimens of 
Leucania loreyi, — new to this coun- 
try, Thos. Thorncroft, 87 North 
Lane, Brighton. 
Diptera. 
Captures in Devon. A boggy piece 
of heath produced a Limnobia similar 
to one I took at Loughrigg Fell, and 
Curtis took at Tunbridge Wells, and 
two or three others of the same genus, 
— two certainly new to me. At Ex- 
mouth I took Limnobia ornata Meig. 
(not in Walker) on very wet and 
dripping rocks, settled with its feet 
touching the water. I formerly took 
it at Black Gang Chine in tolerable 
plenty, but it is not in the British 
Museum, — nor was L. oscillans till I 
sent it. J. C. Dale, Budleigh Sal- 
terton, Devon. 
KXUIlNKi:. 
Eupithecia. I have about thirty 
E. Virgaureata and a few of E. A/bi- 
punctata, E. Castigata, E. Absynth- 
iata etc, to spare. I want several o: 
the Eupithecite, — also Nos, in th( i 
