NOTES — ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. I3I 



East several violent storms which might easily have brought them. I have not 

 seen a single specimen in Surrey this year, but here they seem to be the commonest 

 butterfly." 



With a change of wind to furious S.W. gales, and torrents 



of rain, the butterfly and moth quickly became rarer, and on a 



long walk through St. Osyth parish on October 14th, scarcely 



one was to be seen, where hundreds had been previously. — 



W.C. 



Bats Catching Moths. —In continuation of the obser- 

 vations given in the Essex Naturalist last year {ante pp. 42-3) 

 we have again this summer remarked the wings of many species 

 of moths on the floor of the verandah at my house at Buckhurst 

 Hill. Most of the species recorded before have been noticed, 

 with the following additions, making 25 species in all : — 

 Ardia luhvicipeda H. olevacca 



Apamea oculea Plusia ckvysitis 



Xylophasia lithoxylea Ouvaptevyx samhucavia 



X. polyodon A hraxas gvossulaviata 



Hadena dentina 

 The destroyers were certainly bats, as they were constantly 

 '' hawking " in and about the verandah in the evenings, and the 

 *' signs " of their resting places were plainly to be seen under the 

 eaves. Gilbert White, in his eleventh letter to Pennant, wrote, 

 alluding to a tame bat which was fed with insects," the adroitness 

 it showed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were alwayg 

 rejected, was worthy of observation, and pleased me much." — 

 W. Cole, September, 1903. 



BOTANY. 



Notes on Essex Plants. — I send a few notes, which may 

 be of interest : — 



Vicia liitea. — A plant of this species, with nearly white flowers 

 was found on the seawall at Goldhanger, on Saturday, August 8th. 

 It is a curious coincidence that two persons should be able 

 to record the finding of this plant in consecutive issues of the 

 Essex Naturalist. Within a very short distance one came 

 across two other plants, viz. : Bupleuyuiii tenuissimuui and Typlia 

 latifolia. 



Valevianella auricula. — It is a pleasure to be able to record 

 another county district for this species (District 5), as it was 



