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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
time, I went into the field, and began 
marching regularly from end to end, on 
the qui vice for anything extraordinary. 
All ihe common butterflies were in abun- 
dance, attracted, T presume, by the bril- 
liant yellow flowers of the Chrysanthemum 
segetum, which flourished in profusion ; 
almost entirely concealing the withered 
stalks of the potatoes, the rightful occu- 
pants of the field. I had not continued 
my perambulations long, ere, to my de- 
light, I saw Edusa fluttering along, her 
lustrous wings rivalling the gaudy tints 
of the surrounding flowers. Fearless of 
coming evil, she rested for a moment 
upon the petals of an “ ox-eye,” and 
sipped the delicious nectar, but “ with one 
fell swoop the ruthless net descended,” 
my finger and thumb pressed upon the 
thorax, and all was over. Let no tender- 
hearted maiden, on reading this, shed 
tears of pity — useless tears, for, though 
the pretty flutterer’s life was cut short a 
day or two at most, shall she not, phoenix- 
like, rise from her ashes, and (in the pages 
of the 4 Intelligencer’) be handed down to 
distant ages as the first female Colias 
Edusa captured in Scotlaud. Within an 
hour and a quarter I took four specimens, 
two males and two females, which, with 
the two males taken on the same day by 
another collector, and the two previously 
captured by myself (see Int. vol. ii. 
pp. 180, 188) amount to eight specimens 
taken at Southernness. Including that 
got in Kirkmahoe, and the seven taken 
near Glencaple Quay (curiously enough 
all males), there is a total of sixteen spe- 
cimens obtained this season, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Dumfries. On Monday I 
again proceeded to the scene of my former 
captures. The day was unfavorable, sky 
overcast, no sunshine, — consequently 
very few butterflies on the wing; yet I 
did not altogether despair of getting 
something to redeem the day’s excursion 
from being 44 flat, stale and unprofitable.” 
1 saw, — what shall I say? Well I will 
call it llclice , though it was exceedingly 
like Hyale. Wildly Helice flew, and 
wildly I ran, but wings are much more 
efficient aids to progression than legs, and 
I was soon left far behind. I did not give 
in, however, but followed at a respectful 
distance, and under the belief that I had 
marked the place where Helice alighted — 
among some turnips dripping with dew — 
I cautiously walked up, but nothing did 
I see. All that I got by my eagerness to 
obtain the object of my admiration was a 
thorough wetting up to my knees. — W. S. 
Thorburn, Bank House , Troqueer, near 
Dumfries ; September 22. 
Stock exhausted. — I have received so 
many applications for M. Cinxia, C. Fla- 
vicornis and T. subtusa that I shall not 
be able to supply one-third of the requests 
of those who have offered insects in re- 
turn. I hope those correspondents who 
have not received a reply from me will 
conclude that all my slock of duplicates 
is exhausted. — J. Linton, Mount Traf- 
ford, Eccles, Manchester ; Sept. 22. 
Captures at Plymouth. — On Tuesday 
last a fine male specimen of H. Hispidus 
was brought me, taken at a lamp the 
night before. I have also taken lately 
at lamps, L. cespitis, L. Testacea, O. Up- 
si Ion, S . Flavicincla (abundantly), E.fus- 
cantaria, E. Angularia, &c. C. Edusa 
has occurred here freely: I have a few 
duplicates of it. — E. Lethbridge, 40, 
Old Town Street, Plymouth ; Sept. 19. 
Larva of Vanessa Polychloros. — You 
may remember that I mentioned to you 
that I had taken Vanessa Polychloros 
larv® on Pyrus Aria aud a Salix this 
year, and you remarked that it was the 
first time you had heard of their feeding 
on anything but elm. A correspondent 
near Maidstone has since informed me 
that he also found a brood upon a 
sallow for the first time this season. — 
Rev. Hugh A. Stowell, Favcrsham ; 
September 19. 
Ennomos fuscantaria. — I took a 
female specimen of this insect at a street 
lamp on the 17th iust. — W. Thompson, 
