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tember, and remember one being captured in that month ; but, for 

 them to emerge (or prepare to do so) en masse in September is a novelty. 

 — George A. Harker. September i?>l/i, 1890. 



Lyndhnrst. — The autumn larvae seemed fairly plentiful at I.yndhurst 

 on September 15th and i6th, I took by beating on sallow — Apatnra 

 iris (3), Trichiiira cratcegi (8), Ephyra orbicitlaria (20), Looophora 

 sexalisata (21), Eucosmia undiilata (2), Cabera exanihemaria, Dicramira 

 furcula (5), Notodo7ita ziczac (2), Smerinthus populi (i), ocellatus (i), 

 Dasychira p2idibunda (i), Amphidasys betularia (2), Selenia illunaria (5). 

 On birch — Notodonta dromedaritis (3), Cidaria corylata (17), Drepana 

 f alalia (4), D. lacertula (5), Notodonta dictceoides (i), Cabera pusaria. 

 On alder — Hypsipetes imphnnata (4 in \\ hours). On Scotch fir — 

 Fidonia piftiaria, Macaria liturata (13), Odontopera bidentata (i), and i 

 unknown about the size of Macaria liturata, only nearly black — a 

 Geometer — and several small Ellopia fasciaria which I replaced. On 

 beech — Heterogenea asellus (t after about i hour's search), not a bad 

 bag for a bad season Whether I shall get iris and cratcegi through 

 time will show. Iris are sleeved out in the wilds. What am I to do 

 with cratcegi? Smerinthus tilice. pupje have been plentiful at the foot of 

 limes and elms and Sphiftx ligustri fairly common ; I have taken some 

 dozen — not more. — G. M. A. Hewett, Winchester. 



Warrington. — -By beating birch I have taken larv^ of Viminia 

 nienyanthidis, Cuspidia leporina, Notodonta dictaoides^ N. dromedarius, 

 N. camelina, Drepana lacertula, D. falcula, Hadena pisi, Saturnia 

 carpini, and Amphidasys betularia. — T. Tunstall, Warrington. Nov., 

 1890. 



Minehead. — I spent the first week of x'Vugust in the neighbourhood of 

 Minehead. I did no night work, so cannot give my experience of 

 sugaring during the time, my chief object was to work for varieties of 

 Hypsipetes elutata. I was rather late for it, but still managed to procure 

 some fine vars., notably one, which I have placed in the Exhibition Box. 

 This specimen was taken near Porloch, sallow and whortleberry both 

 abounding in the locality ; but 1 rather assume that it had fed on 

 sallow, as all the bilberry forms seem to be a great deal smaller, and, I 

 assume those feeding on whortleberry would be similar. At the top of 

 the Porloch Hill on the Lynton and Synmouth Road, I obtained 

 specimens of Melanippe galiata and Larentia salicata, and near Mine- 

 head I captured one specimen of Stilbia anomala — E. C. Dobree Fox, 

 Castle Moreton. November, 1890. 



Donegal, Wicklozv and Howth. — The weather of August was bad. 

 In Donegal, I found it wet nearly every day, and ragwort almost un- 

 productive. I took Stilbia anomala (one $) on the wing, on the coast 

 of Lough Swilly, but saw no more of them there. That was on August 

 1 8th. The same night, I took Miana literosa and Noctua c-fiigrum at 

 ragwort. In a young plantation of pines, among heather, there were 

 numbers of Cidaria immanata (?), though not so many as last year in 

 the same place. In the daytime you had only to walk into the wood 

 and some were sure to rise from the stem of every Scotch fir. In 

 Wicklow at the end of the month Hydrcecia nictitans (which is very 

 scarce at Howth) was most abundant. In the full sunshine, it was 

 hard at work sucking honey from the ragwort ; and at night it still 

 worked away. At Howth, on September 2nd, a couple of Neuronia 



