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Dicycla oo. Not uncommon in some seasons at sugar in 

 " Rushey Plain " ; never seen in garden. 



Cosmia trapezina. Very common at sugar in garden and 

 Forest. 



C. diffinis. Not uncommon at sugar in garden and Forest. 



C. affinis. At sugar in garden and Forest ; scarcer than 

 preceding. 



Dianthaecia capsincola. Not uncommon over honeysuckle 

 in garden in iS6S and 1869. It used to fly about the flowers with 

 S/'/iinx Iigustri\ Chcrrocampa e/penor, and Cucullia timbratica. 



Hecatera serena. Occasionally at sugar in Forest; once or 

 twice on fenc-es near Woodford. 



Polia flavicincta. Occasionally at sugar in garden. 



Miselia oxyacanthse. Fairly common at sugar in garden, and 

 in larval form in Forest. 



Phlogophora meticulosa. Common at sugar and on wing, 

 in garden and Forest. 



Euplexia lucipara. Occasionally at sugar in garden ; com- 

 mon in Forest. 



Aplecta occulta Two specimens at sugar in " Gilbert's 

 Slade," August 26th, 1869. (" Entomologist," vol. iv., p. 325.) 



A. nebulosa. Scarce at sugar in garden ; fairly common in 

 Forest. 



A. tincta. One specimen on fence near Woodford, June 25th, 

 1871. 



Hadena protea. At sugar in Forest ; somewhat rare. 



H. den tin a. Occasionally at sugar in Forest ; more fre- 

 quently on fences by day. 



H chenopodii. Common at sugar in garden and Forest. I 

 once saw this moth actively on the wing in bright sunshine, flying 

 over flowers of Epilobium. 



H. oleracea. Common at sugar in garden and Forest. 



H. pisi. Larva not uncommon on broom in Forest. 



H. genistae. Occasionally at rest on fences in Woodford 

 district. 



Xylocampa lithoriza. Fairly common on fences and tree 

 trunks throughout district. 



Cucullia chamomillae. One specimen taken at rest on the 

 extreme end of a pointed wooden paling in the Lea Bridge Road, 

 April 22nd, 1869. (See Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1878, p. 159.) 



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