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lo was eutirely absent, but V. Atalanta and cardui swarmed ; I fully 

 expected to see V. Antiopa, but was disappointed. Sphinx convolvuli 

 was common at dusk, hovering over various flowers in the garden, but 

 all the specimens were more or less battered. A single specimen of 

 Acherontia Afropos, just out of the pupa, was caught by the gamekeeper 

 in his cottage, and brought to me. The gardeners told me that the 

 tomato plants had been much stripped by some large larva ; I have no 

 doubt that it was A. Afropos. Macroglossa stellatarum occurred in 

 myriads. There is a good deal of Etiphorlia par alias growing on the 

 islands, and I searched it well for the larva of Deilephila eupliorhice, 

 but without success ; the gamekeeper, however, to whom I described 

 it, and who is a very observant man, told me he was almost sure he had 

 seen it. On both the islands of Tresco and St. Mary's there are some 

 large fresh water pools of great antiquity, fringed with reed-beds, and 

 with a thick scrub of heather or sallow close at hand. I saw nothing, 

 however, either by day or night, except Leucania pallens and impura. 

 I sugared dense masses of ragwort-bloom on the margins of the Tresco 

 pools, but without any result. For about a fortnight I sugared the 

 blossoms of the shrubby l^ew Zealand Veronicas in the Abbey gardens 

 almost every evening ; I captured the following insects : — Agrotis liini- 

 gera (a single specimen), saucia, svjfusa, segetiim, piita, and tritici ; 

 Triphcena orhona ; Noctua plecta, c-nigrum, xantliograplia, and rihhi ; 

 PJilogopJiora meticulosa ; Miann furimcula ; Cerigo cytJierea ; Melan- 

 tJiia riihiginata ; and a single somewhat damaged specimen of the rare 

 Margarodes laiionalis and Eupithecia pumilata. The larvse of Dianthoecia 

 capsincola were common on Lychnis f/icecfl,and those of Eupithecia absin- 

 th iata and centaureata on ragwort bloom. I saw no trace of any other 

 Eupithecia except E. nanata, a few larvae of which I swept from 

 flowers of Calluna vulgaris. Acidolia promutata occurred on banks 

 near the sea, at St. Mary's, and Plusia gamma, Camptogramma hilinearia, 

 and Stenopteryx hyhridalis swarmed everywhere. 



An entomological friend, who was a guest at the Abbey for some 

 weeks previous to my visit, took Leucania littoraJis, Triphcena intcr- 

 jecta, Dianthoecia conspersa, Agrotis lunigera and oielisca, Lithosia 

 quadra, liryophila glandifera, Sadena jyisi, Eupithecia suhnotata and 

 p)ulche]lata, Cleora lichenaria, Ourapteryx savihucaria, Oledeohia ancjus- 

 talis, Stenia punctalis, Endotricha Jlammealis, and Herhula cespitalis. 



I took the larvae of Chelonia caja, Spilosoma luhricipeda and men- 

 thastri, Acronycta o'umicis, Mamestra brassicce, Hadena oleracea and 

 chenopodii, and I saw traces of Cucullia verbasci. 



I did not collect Tortrices, Crambites, or Micros. 



