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giving a list of the insects that I wanted, except in a very few 

 instances, as I did not take notes of everything I saw whilst collecting. 



One of my first expeditions was atrip to Wimbledon Common after 

 Apncheiiiia his/iuhria, on February 25th, when I secured one male 

 only, but I noticed that Hijbernia leucophaearia and Hjibernia mar- 

 (jinaria (profiemiiiaria) were in great numbers both of males and 

 females. I also secured one Phit/alia pedaria [pilomria) female. On 

 February 28th a trip to the same locality brought more success, and I 

 took two males and a female of A. hispidaria, the latter unfortunately 

 infertile, and although 1 placed her in my own garden for assembling, 

 I had no luck. 



I did not do any collecting at all during March, which was very 

 cold, but on the 31st I bred a female Polyploca ridens from a New 

 Forest larva. On April 1st a sallow expedition in the Horley district 

 yielded only the usual herd, Taeniocampa pulvernlenta (cruda), T. 

 fjothica, T. miinda, T. fjracilis, T. stablis, T. instabilis, Scopelosoma 

 sotellitia, and CerasHs vaccinii. From April 11th to 14th was spent 

 in the New Forest, but I did not get anything worthy of note except 

 four Cidaria dterata {p ait tic at a) and one Lobophora viretata on sallow. 

 From April 24th to 30th I bred a fine lot of Eupithecia lariciata from 

 larvae taken at Box Hill in August, 1913, two Plastenis reclusa, some 

 T. iiracilia, a red form, and Panolis piniperda, all also from larv^ 

 obtained in the New Forest. On April 24th, at light, I took Gono- 

 dontia bidentata, LcDiipropteri/x siiJfiDiiata, and one Eupithecia coronata. 



On May 3rd two more G. bidentata emerged from Box Hill larvae, 

 and a Seniinthisa notata from a Worth Forest larva, and my pupa of 

 Aegeria culiciformis, which I had taken a few days before in the latter 

 locality began to emerge, while two Cidaria conjlata emerged on 

 May 10th, also from Worth. At light in the latter forest, on 

 May 16th, I secured a male Notodonta trepida, four Tephrosia con- 

 sonaria, while Drepana falcataria (falcida) and Drepana lacertinaria 

 (lacertida) were also noted. A visit to Box Hill, on May 22nd, 

 produced Eplnjra linearia {trilinearia), Amphidaus betnlaria, Bapta 

 teinerata, and another visit on the 30th gave me two Agrotis cinerea, 

 Bapta bimaciilata {taminata), Etipithecia coronata, E. linearia (trili- 

 nearia), and Aathena candidata mostly at light. 



A few hours spent in Crowborough Warren on June 1st produced 

 but one Perizowa albulata and one Eupithecia pusillata. At Box 

 Hill, on June 5th, I took a male Agrotis cinerea, Craspedia {Acidalia) 

 ornata, Endrosa irrorella, and two Lithoda sororcula {aureola). 

 On June 7th I went to Lewes for Adscita geryon and Rhagades 

 globulariae, but the weather was not propitious, and I only took two 

 males of the former species. At Box Hill, on June 25th, I obtained 

 Plusia pulchrina, P. iota, Ephyra linearia {trilinearia) worn, Cucullia 

 nmbratica, Xylophasia sublustris, Dianthoecia cucubali, Eupithecia 

 venosata, E. oblongata {centaur eata), Botys hyalinalis, B. pandalis, and 

 a var. bilinea of Grammeda trigraiiniiica {trilinea). I bred Cucullia 

 aateris on June 30th from a Worth Forest larva, a Triphaena fimbria 

 from the same locality, and the first of a brood of Pailura monacha 

 from ova laid by a female taken at Oxshott. On June 13th, and 

 again on June 17th, I bred an Aegeria andrenaefonuis, the former from 

 a Box Hill stick, and the latter from one cut at Bishop's Waltham, in 

 Hants, on my way up from the New Forest, in April. Four Palim- 



