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30 p. 406, together with this beetle and many other interesting insects, among others a seemingly new species of Paussus, near P. Klugii, were lately brought to this country by the Rev. D. F. Morgan, the late indefatigable colonial chaplain at Sierra Leone, who, by three valuable presentations of insects to the British Museum, has very materially increased the value of the collection.—Id.

Polia occulta. I captured a pair of this rare species here this week, a female on the 1 st, and a male on the 4th; they were both sucking sugar which I had placed on the trunks of some trees to attract moths.—H. Doubleday; Epping, August 6, 1842.

Captures near Guildford. J.F. Stephens; Vicarage, Shalford, near Guildford, Aug. 21, 1842.

Lebia Crux-minor. In brushing for Diptera, &c. in the woods at Unsted, near Godalming, on the 27th instant, I caught a single specimen of this very rare insect, which evidently flew into my net; it was very active with its wings, and required some little dexterity to secure it.—Id.

Capture of Catocala Fraxini at Hammersmith. I had the gratification of taking a specimen of this rare and magnificent insect in my own garden, on Saturday evening last the 3rd instant, in fine condition. It was a beautiful sight to see him feasting on the sweets that I had provided for him, on the trunk of an apple tree, raising his wings something after the manner of a butterfly. The Catocalae appear to be very fond of the sugar, for I very frequently meet with Nupta, and I have a specimen in my cabinet of Fraxini that was found by a relative in a bottle containing beer and sugar, that was placed against a wall to catch the wasps, in October, J 838, near Arundel in Sussex.—Samuel Stevens; 38, King Street, Covent Garden, September 5th, 1842.

Capture of Colias Hyale and Argynnis Lathonia. On the 3rd of September I captured two of our rarest butterflies—Colias Hyale and Argynnis Lathonia,—in less than ten minutes. C. Hyale was taken about two miles and a half from Lavenham, on the Long Melford road. It is the third specimen I have taken in this locality, and was making its morning repast from the flowers of the autumnal hawkbit and dandelion, and was enclosed under the net while feeding on the blossom of the latter plant: there were many fine fields of clover in this neigh-