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brood. On September 25th, 1890, larvae were beaten, from the pupas 

 of which the first moth was bred on August 4th, 1891, on which day six 

 imagines and several larvas were captured in the same wood as the 

 1890 larvae were collected. — B. A. Bower, F.E.S., Chislehurst. 

 October 20tli, 1902. 



Lepidoptera in Hants. — I am afraid I must add my complaints of 

 the badness of the season, though for the past three weeks things have 

 been decidedly better, and sugar is worth putting on, though all June, 

 July, August, and the beginning of September 1 do not think I set 50 

 moths taken by this meany, although 1 have worked every favourable 

 night both here and in the Forest. K}nmda iiit/ra, Canuhina ambigua, 

 Orthoda iii acilc iita a>nd Peridroma ypsiliui, are coming now more or less 

 freely, and I have had the luck to take four Leucania albipuncta (two 

 wa.sted), and one Orrhodia eri/thrucephala, a beautiful specimen, on 

 September 14th. I kept both of the worn L. albipuncta alive for eggs, 

 and have been rewarded with a few. Can anyone kindly give me hints 

 as to rearing ? I bred a good many of the dark aberrations of Nonagria 

 gemutipuiicta, though about 25 per cent, of the pupte were ichueumoned. 

 Light has been of no use at all here, though a friend of mine took Senta 

 iiiaiitima (nlvae) at his moth-trap. Larva-beating has been most dis- 

 heartening ; the numbers as about one is to one hundred, compared 

 with last year. — (Majoe) R. B. Robertson, Boscombe. (h-toher 11th, 

 1902. 



Labidura RiPARiA IN Hants. — As lepidoptera have been so scarce I 

 have been working for Labiduya riparia, and have taken a few. It is 

 a tine fellow when alive, but unfortunately shrinks during the process 

 of drying. — Ibid. 



Lepidoptera at Market Drayton and in the New Forest.— 

 Everyone grumbles at the now nearly-past season. I still hold to my 

 opinion that, on the whole, about here at any rate, the failure has not 

 lain altogether in scarcity of insects. During August, sugar was of 

 very little use, and after the 20th an utter failure, yet, when riding 

 home, I saw numbers of moths come into view in the rays of the 

 acetylene lamp. Towards the end of the month and the beginning of 

 September, when the moon was absent, large numbers of insects of 

 common sorts came to the big lamp, especially Neiinmia pvpidaris and 

 Lupcrina lc»tacea, and among the former a J . L. cespltis also showed 

 up in numbers, but the weather was often so very unpleasant that I 

 did not care to go out. About the middle of September a $ Drepana 

 haiiinla came to the lamp, a species hitherto unknown here. It was in 

 very good condition but I kept it for ova, and it only deposited five. 

 Larvte were very late. Quite towards the end of September those of 

 Lophopterijx cantclina, Notodonta druiiiedarias, and LeiucatHpa dictaeoides 

 were only about half grown, and those of Cymotop/iora duplaiis hardly 

 so forward. The latter is not to be wondered at as the moths were 

 fresh which came to sugar in the middle of August. On October 1st 

 1 went to the iS'ew Forest with a view of getting XijLina aocia. During 

 Llie first ten days cold north and north-east winds made collecting very 

 difficult. During the next ten dtiys the temperature rose, and common 

 things were fairly numerous, especially Xylina urnit/iopiiH. Orthosia 

 Uiia wns scarce, apparently hardly out, O. inaciienta much more 

 uuuRiuLis and lu lovely condition. Of A', socia I got, altogether, 

 fourteen, one on the 10th, five on the 13th, four on the ilth, one on 



