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am sorry to say I had rather bad luck in breeding them, so many got 

 away or were eaten by the others ; at all events they <iisappeared. The 

 full grown larvae appear to he able to get through anything they can see 

 daylight through. L. pallens a.nd L. impiira were pretty plentiful. All 

 the Mamestrce were scarce this season ; also Mia?ia sfrigi/is, M. fasciun- 

 ciila, M. literosa and M. bicoloria. The Caradriiio'VierQ well represented 

 by C. cubicidaris, but I did not manage to secure any of the others. All 

 the Agrotid^ were very scarce with the one exception of cursoria. 

 Nigricans, which we often get quite black, was entirely absent ; oi p7-cecox 

 I only secured 6 specimens, of valligera a few, of tritici very few com- 

 paratively, of aqiiilina only one, segetum and suffiisa I have not seen, 

 although, last year they were very common, especially the latter; exclama- 

 tio7iis scarcer than usual, corticea I did not get at all. We had a few fine 

 nights in August when I managed to secure a few Luperina tistacea and 

 L. cespitis at the lamps, the latter seeming to be in greater numbers 

 than I have ever seen them here before, and, if the weather had held 

 out, I should have got a nice series, as it was I got thirteen of them. 

 The NocTUiD^ were scarce, with the exception of xanthographa, which, 

 as usual, was in great force. The T^NiocAMPiDiE were all very much 

 scarcer than usual. I took a few gracilis, and 3 or 4 opima, but not 

 incerta or stabilis, and the few I got were off the sallow ; I could not get 

 them to sugar, I have seen a few Orthosia lota during the last few 

 weeks. In August I X.ooV^i^t'^ Epundalicheneahy^tt^Xiwg. TheHADENiD^E 

 very scarce. H. dentiiia I have not seen for two years ; in 1 888, I could have 

 taken them in hundreds on sugar, Cucullia umbratica was also very plentiful 

 in 1888, but I have only taken one this year. Pluua gamma has been 

 scarce this year, last year they swarmed. I also took Fhylomctra cenea 

 flying in the trees in July. I have seen very few Geometers, Cidaria 

 testata has swarmed all over the sand-hills and Ennomos tiliaria has 

 been fairly plentiful on the lamps. This being m.y first year among the 

 Micros it has been quite new ground to me. I have found the habitats 

 of some interesting species : — Ephippiphora populana, Choreutes scin- 

 tilulana, Peronea aspersana, P. hnstiana, Eupoecilia veclisana, Sericoris 

 liltcrana, Plerophorus lithodactyla, Anerastia lotella, and Hypermecia 

 cruciana, which I understand is the dwarf sallow form of H. angustana. 

 Tortrix fosterana, T. podatia, T. heperana, etc., Peronea sponsana, P. 

 schalleriana, T. comtiarana, etc., Teras caiida?ia and its varieties, 

 GrapJiolitha trimaculana, Ephippiphora scutulana, Aspis udnianniana, 

 Sericoris cespitana, S. rivulana, S. iirlicana, S. laci/nana, Sciaphila 

 subjectana, GrapJiolitha ni^romaculana, Eupcecilia diibitana, E. atri- 

 capitana, Pyrausta piirpuralis, Pyralis farinalis, Harpipteryx xylostella, 

 H. nemorella, Depressaria nanatella, arenella, propinquella, stib- 

 propinqiiella, rhodochrella, liti/rella, conterminella, angelicella, ocellana, 

 yeatitila, applana, ciliella, badiella, heracleana, Gelechia niarniorea, um- 

 brosella, populella, sororculella, iemerella, terella, Cokophora ginistce, 

 Betrachedra prceangusfa, Lithocolletis abiifoliella, Ceniiostoma labi/rnella, 

 and a number of others, almost all taken on the sand hills. I have a 

 nice series of Peronea hastiana coming out now, 'from larvae gathered in 

 August and September, some with the forewings purple, others grey, 

 purple with a white streak in the middle, purple with a white streak on the 

 inner margin, etc. — -T. Baxter, St. Anne's Collegiate School, St. 

 Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancashire. November, 1890. 



