THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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The duplicate species named above are 
all in the finest possible condition, being, 
with two exceptions, bred specimens. — 
Rev. J. Greene, 32, Lower Pembroke 
Street, Dublin. 
Bad Success at Sugar. — Seeing a note 
from Mr. Walker in No. 53 of the ‘ In- 
telligencer,’ complaining of the bad suc- 
cess he has had with sugar, may I suggest 
that the reason perhaps is the quality of 
the sugar he uses. I myself, by following 
a recipe given in Maunders ‘Treasury 
of Natural History,’ was continually dis- 
appointed, and laid the fault to the 
locality. However, I have found the 
following recipe to be the best of the 
many I have tried, and it may be of 
service to some of your readers: — To 
one pint of porter add half a pound of the 
strongest obtainable raw sugar (Foots is 
the best) ; boil them together until a little 
dropped into a basin of cold water turns 
thick at the bottom. When cold add 
half a noggin of rum, bottle and cork 
closely. Can any of your numerous 
readers inform me of the best way of 
keeping the hybernating larvae, as 
L. Quercus and Rubi, and O. potatoria, 
through the winter? — R. Tyree, jun., 
Row Lane, Southport ; October 6. 
Bad Success at Sugar. — I can quite 
sympathize with your correspondent who 
complains that the moths won’t come to 
his sugar: for some time past my five 
miles’ walk to and from my sugaring- 
place has been recompensed by such a 
catch as a couple of A. Pyramidea, 
P. Meliculosa, or N. Xanthographa ; and 
my last expedition, made in company 
with a friend, resulted in our beholding 
one moth (probably P. Meticulosa ) lazily 
disporting himself ten feet above our 
heads, among the branches of an oak. 
So much for sugaring. But I have taken 
refuge in pupa-digging: if the Noctuoe 
won’t come to me I go to them, and for 
the last three weeks have availed myself 
of dinner-hours and half-holidays to ply 
both arms and legs vigorously at this 
pursuit, — the latter carrying me at the 
rate of four or four and a half miles an 
hour to any tree or trees I have before 
fixed on, and the former using the trowel 
— not quite so vigorously, for fear of 
murder — when arrived at them. By this 
means I now possess 350 pupae of various 
species ; no doubt a very large per-centage 
will turn out T. Cruda, Slabilis and such 
like. Some are now coming out, — A. 
Aprilina and E. Psiltacala, — but, unless 
my hopes are dried up, the revolving 
months may yet disclose some good Pro- 
minent, Kitten, or something else worth 
having. Unfortunately the rain has now 
stopped me, just as my back has learned 
to bend itself and my hands have become 
hardened ; the latter qualification is a 
needful one for a digger; on the second 
day of my campaign, my right palm 
quite barked itself while barking a tree, 
in pursuit of a numerous family of Cossi 
hidden there. I will only add diggers 
should be cautious when at work at trees 
under which cattle are wont to rest : I 
was digging at such a tree not long ago, 
when, warned by a loud hum of a sortie 
of Aculeate Hymenoptera, I sprang to 
my feet to repel them, but, to my alarm, 
found myself the next instant lower than 
before : I rose again unhurt, but had any 
one been there to see, he might have 
thought I had been attempting to invest 
myself with a covering of that mixture 
which Indian Fakeers are said to delight 
in : this tumble, coupled with the crushing 
of a pupa of Bifida, made that a black 
day to me, otherwise I have been fortunate 
in all my excursions. — Talpa, Exeter ; 
October 8. 
Papilio Macliaon in Somersetshire . — 
A few days ago a specimen of P. Macliaon 
was caught at Portshead near here by 
Mr. Knight, of that place. — A. Wadham, 
Sidcot School, near Weston-super-Mare ; 
October 6. 
Pupa-digging . — It may be of interest 
to some of your readers, and, I think, it 
is but a fitting tribute to the Prince of 
