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papillaris came to light, and on the 3rd, I took a couple of Stilbia 

 ano/iiala, at the top of the low cliffs. On some of the following nights 

 I took .S'. anomala ; the best night being September 9th, when my son 

 and I took nine anomala and five Agrotis agathina. But some of each 

 turned out to be very much worn. Anomala has a curious way of flying 

 towards the lamp, and then dropping into the heather. If you wait, it 

 generally climbs up and flies along the top of the herbage towards the 

 light, when it is not difficult to take. But it is very easily injured, and 

 lives in such windy places that the specimens are often worn. I was 

 surprised to find a female one night on a post which had been sugared 

 two days before. I also took a female at the flowers of Erica cinerea. 

 But on the whole, the females seem much scarcer than the males and 

 also more battered. On the 9th, Eubolia cervinaria and Epunda lichenea 

 came to light; one specimen of each. I bred two $\ and one ? of 

 Epunda lichenea from larvde taken in the garden in the spring. They 

 emerged on the 4th, 5th, and loth of September; on the loth, one 

 Thera firmata came to light and on the nth I took a couple of Acidalia 

 marginepunctata (promutata) on ihe cliffs. — G. V. Hart, Dublin. 

 November, 1890. 



Moths at Flowers of Tritoma uvaria. — I have to record a 

 similar experience to that mentioned by Mr. Beales in this (Dec.) month's 

 Record. Between September 5th and T4th, 1889, while staying at 

 Blackmoor, Liss, Hants., I visited frequently a row of Tritomas, and 

 found moths plentiful, taking Epunda nigra (12), Noctua neglecta, 

 Xanihia ci/rago, X. cerago, X. silago, X. ferrugifiea, Hadena pi'otea 

 (abundant), Anclwcelis lifura, A rufina, A. pistacitia, Agrotis suffnsa, 

 A. segetum, Phlogophora meticulosa, and a few common Geometers. 

 This year I visited the same place in equally hot and fine weather, on 

 September 3rd, 4th, and loth, and saw one Rumia cratcegata, and 

 nothing else. Like most of your correspondents, I have found sugar 

 useless this year, wherever I have tried it. — Waldegrave, 20, Bryan- 

 ston Square, W. December \^th, 1890. 



Work for the Winter. ~I took fifteen cocoons oi Bisulcia ligustri 

 on the 28th of November, under the moss on ash trunks. There is no 

 need to pull off the moss and spoil the trees for another year. The 

 cocoons are very hard, and can be found as lumps under the moss, 

 mainly in the crevices, or, if there is no moss, pull off the runners of 

 ivy, and they will be disclosed, or will be found adhering to the rootlets. 

 Dicranwa fiircula pupae may be foun :1 by searching the dead wood of 

 sallows, either in the tree or littered round the roots. I have, in better 

 years, taken ten in a day, but it is rather a severe test of eyesight. 

 They are generally at the base of a divergent branch, but sometimes on 

 the straight, and very often in the hollow where a branch has been 

 pulled off. Dead wood of any kind, anywhere about the tree is freely 

 used. There is also another very cold game to play. Lithosia rubri- 

 collis spins a little fluffy spider-like web under the moss on the oaks. 

 I have not taken any this year, but was fairly fortunate last year. They 

 don't spin up till well on mto November. — G. M. A. Hewetf, The 

 'College, Winchester December, 1890. 



Reported Capture of Gonopteryx cleopatra. — A Mr. W. 

 Parsons, last month, is reported to have captured in a clover field near 



