THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Fritillaries in Gardens . — I have often 
met with instances of Fritillaries being 
taken in gardens. A specimen of A.Eu- 
phrosyne was taken in a garden here last 
J une. — T. J. Stainton,34, Belsize Road, 
St.John’s Wood; Jan. 9. 
Melittca Dia. — As a collector of Euro- 
pean Lepidoptera, I read with much 
interest the Rev. B. Smith’s announce- 
ment of the capture of so familiar an 
acquaintance as Dia on British ground, 
and the further particulars furnished by 
the Hon. Mr. Ellis. I am rather sur- 
prised by the sceptical letter of your cor- 
respondent in No. 66 with reference to 
this question: to my mind the two ac- 
counts are by no means contradictory, as 
there implied. I should say the fair in- 
ference from them was this : that a spe- 
cimen of Mclitcea Dia was “ knocked 
down,” in the garden named, by “ a vil- 
lage boy,” — that it was brought alive to 
Mr. Ellis, who “killed and set” it, 
though not very successfully, and by 
him taken to the Rev. B. Smith to be 
named. This is surely probable enough. 
As regards the objection on the score of 
locality, I had imagined it was a well- 
known fact that A. Lalhonia is not un- 
frequently found in gardens on the Con- 
tinent, and, to come nearer home, it is 
mentioned in the * Substitute,’ p. 19, that 
A. Paphia has occurred in a garden near 
Lyndhurst ; besides good things do turn 
up sometimes in odd places. Who 
would have made a pilgrimage to Wim- 
bledon Common in expectation of finding 
Edusa (Intel. No. 48)? No collector, I 
suppose, would have thought of insti- 
tuting a systematic search in spiders’ 
webs for C. Perspicillaris ; neither, I 
fancy, would any old hand have recom- 
mended an incipient to hunt for larvae of 
A. Leporina on young men’s backs (Intel. 
No. 23). But seriously, when a capture 
is announced on the authority of gentle- 
men in the position of those who have 
figured in this rwe-ful history of a British 
Dia, is there not something more than 
mere scepticism involved in a commen- 
tary such as that with which your cor- 
respondent has favoured us ? — J. R. 
Hind, 22, Grove Road, St. John’s Wood : 
Jan. 9. 
Doings on the First. — Although I 
cannot boast of the preternatural activity 
recorded in the leading article of the 
last number of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ I did 
not allow the New Year to be ushered in 
without some attempt at Entomologizing. 
Friday was with us a glorious day, just 
adapted to pupa-digging, and to that 
occupation I devoted myself. After four 
hours’ hard work (and it is hard work) I 
was rewarded with thirty-five pupee. 
This, taking into account the time of 
year, I cannot help considering a goodly 
number, but, whether or no, it amply 
satisfied me, and my gratitude to the 
Rev. Joseph Greene for his admirable 
pamphlet was, and is, unfeigned. Most 
of the pupae were of the commonest 
kinds, but I found several, including a 
large one at oak, that I never saw before, 
and all will probably be useful. In addi- 
tion to the pupas I fell in with a few 
Coleoptera, both at the roots of, and 
under moss on, the trees. — T. Vaughan 
Roberts, Osivestry ; Jan. 4. 
Opening the Campaign. — Is it not early 
for P. Pilosaria P I look a specimen at 
a gas-lamp on the 2nd inst., in company 
with II. Dcfoliaria and C. Brumaria , — 
quite a mixture of autumn, winter and 
spring. I found a pupa of P. Gamma, 
and put it in a box on the mantelpiece 
on the 28th of December, and on the 
30th the perfect insect appeared: of 
course it must have been just ready to 
come out, for two days’ forcing could 
make jery little difference. — Chabi.es G. 
Babeext, 37, Park Street, Mile End ; 
Jan. 5. 
Early Doings among Moths. — It being 
very mild on the evening of the 9th, I 
strolled to the woods, and captured at 
sugar C. exoleta, C. Vaccinii and S. Sa- 
tellitia. I also found on the truuks of 
