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light on August 7th, Spilosoma lubricipeda, S. wenthaatri, ])(t:<>i(hira 

 piidibiiiida, ()riiyia antiqua. Denias corijli. — Until last season, all the 

 lai'Vfe I have found of this species have been very plain, practically 

 unicolorous with a more or less smoky line down the back and always 

 on beech. In September I found, on birch, a beautifully variegated 

 larva which I describe : Dorsal band wide and black, rather lozenge- 

 shaped at each segment, the outline well-defined ; a wide band of the 

 same hue along each side joining up with the dorsal band at the 5th 

 segment onwards ; between these two bands a narroAV streak of buff- 

 coloured, transverse strife, intersected by a thin, wavy, black line, and 

 rather interrupted at the 10th and 11th segments by a smoky-black 

 clouding ; below the band along the side, commencing about the 

 middle, are six snow-white, diagonal and rather hook-shaped 

 protuberate markings, the last one continuing as a streak to the 

 anal flap (these became yellowish a day or two before the larva 

 spun up) ; the pencils of hairs on the 1st segment and the erect tufts 

 on the 4th, 5th and 11th segments, a rich, deep brown ; warts emitting 

 soft white hairs, while those on the 11th and 12th segments have also a 

 few long, black hairs mixed with the shorter white. Fuecilocainpa jinpuli. 

 — On June 29th I found a full-grown larva in a crevice in the trunk of a 

 damson tree a few inches from the ground. Two days later it spun 

 up at the bottom of a chip box under a leaf ; the cocoon, both in colour 

 and shape, greatly resembles a fancychocolate. L'oi^uwtrichc ptitatoria, 

 Drepana falrataria, Cilix (/laucata. Centra hllida. — I bred a fine ? from 

 a larva I found in 1908 on poplar at Tintern ; the first specimen we 

 have obtained in the Wye Valley, although we have several times 

 found old and empty cocoons on poplar trunks. Notodonta dromedarim. 

 Petasia cassinea. — At light, Tintern. Dilnba caentleocephala, Gonopliora 

 derasa, Thyatira batis, CyinatopJiora dilitta, Asphalia fiavicornis. 

 Acronycta lepnrina. — I found two larvas ; both, unfortunately, were 

 " stung." Triaena psi. Craniophnra liyiintri. — I bred one from a larva 

 found in 1908, but no amount of searching will produce another, 

 althoughthereareplenty of ash-trees and privet bushes to hunt on. Pha- 

 retra rtiuiicia. Ai/rotis pnta. — One at treacle; the first I have seen since 

 leaving the London district. A. e.irlaiiiationi-t. Lycapliotia strii/ula was 

 fairly common at dusk during July, flying over heath. Trip/iaena 

 iantliina, T. orbona, T. pronuba, Nocttta (/lareosa, N. triaiu/nliiiii, N. 

 brminea. N. festiva. — The males were to be obtained in plenty on the 

 heathy ground, but, as usual, no females. I wonder if other collectors 

 find a difficulty in procuring the females of this moth ! Feeling- 

 curious as to their seemingly secretive habits, I shall be much obliged 

 if somebody will give me some hints how, when and where to obtain 

 the females otherwise than by breeding them from larvae found in the 

 spring. N. baja, N. rnbi, N. nnibrosa. N. xanthoyrap/ta was most 

 variable ; one form to be taken here is rather undersized, a very dark 

 chestnut-brown, so dark that the lines of black spots are only faintly 

 visible, the orbicular spot totally obscured, and the reniform nearly so, 

 the latter represented by a faint reddish spot. Charaeas yraviinh was 

 obtained by us for the first time in the Wye Valley, my father taking- 

 several <3^ s at light at Tintern, and I one 3- at light and a ? netted 

 at dusk. Neiironia popularis, Lnperina cenjjiti.i, L. testacea, Aplecta 

 nebulosa, Hadena contiyiia, H. yenistae, H. dentina, H. protca, Mamcstra 

 brassicae, M. persicariae. Hecatera nerena (?). — At the end of August 



