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visitors, as a number of moths flitted up towards the lantern light and 

 returned down the cliff as quickly as they came. I, therefore, resolved 

 to visit some privet bushes which I had noted on my way up, and 

 which were in flower. As soon as I got to them my conjecture was 

 confirmed, as the buz/ing of wings was quite noticeable, and I found 

 that the bushes were alive with moths jostling one another, and barely 

 n Howerhead but had one or two moths. Desides the aliove species 1 

 noted Ai/rdfia cnrticea. A. sci/i'tiini and A. '',r<ianiati(»iix, worn, TripJuuini 

 fintnuba, T. comes, and a number of other species. This was at 10.30 

 p.m. Again on August 14th, 1 sugared on the clift's nt Freshwater, 

 and not a single moth came, but a beetle {Seriin/la Jm/i'iisis) simply 

 swiirmed. On the way down, one or two posts of a fence gave me two 

 Ciriijn mat lira [cj/t/iena), three Ajiaiiira diilipiia {(iculi'a). one Caradrina 

 tniibi'iiia, one Atiiphiipyra tratiojioiionis, and two Lxperina Uatari'ti, but 

 nothing else. A little farther on I came to a hedge overhanging a 

 ditch, with bramble and other flowers, and here I was surprised to find 

 both Geometrids and Noctuids swarming, but, having nonet with me, 

 and the ditch being too wide to allow of pillboxing, I cannot give the 

 species. This was at 11.15 p.m. On September 10th, I sugared high 

 up on the downs at Dover, away from flowers, and had a good bag. 

 Two evenings later 1 tried the valley, where flowers were plentiful, and 

 selected a lane, on one side of which were posts, which 1 sugared, and 

 on the other a hedge with ivy coming into bloom, but the result was 

 again not what I expected, two Noctua c-ni(jniin and two J Li-ptnp/nje-'^ 

 pvnrtatixsiiiia at sugar, and a few Epunda lutidenta at the ivy. (This 

 latter bait I would recommend to the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, r^ his 

 note antea, vol. xiv., p. 286, which the last named species seems to prefer, 

 and which may possibly explain why he does not get it at sugar after a 

 certain date, dependent on the season.) Again having my suspicions 

 with regard to flowers, I cast round with my lantern and chanced to see 

 a moth flying in an adjoining field, where a wild plant was growing 

 about two feet high, and, on investigating further, I found moths very 

 plentiful, settled on the flower-heads, or buzzing from flower to flower, 

 and among others I got Hydroecia micacea, two species of Xanthiids, 

 Noctiia-r-iiiip-um, Epunda lutidenta, Leiicania paltens, Veridroma snfusa, 

 Pldoijuphura meticulosa, Noctua, xantlioyrapha, Lupcrhia testacea, 

 Anc/iucelis lunoaa, AmphipyratrarfopoycDm, Triphacna comes, T. pronuba 

 (quite fresh), and Catocala niipta, the latter quite bearing the flower- 

 head down. I have found that sugaring as high up as possible pays 

 best, especially on the downs, and on one night in June last, on 

 Brighton downs, insects came in hundreds to sugar, the next night 

 (same conditions), in the valley, my bag amounted to three, so on the 

 third night I returned to the downs and found insects as plentiful as 

 on my first visit. At that time I did not suspect flowers as the reason 

 of the second night's failure, but, in the light of my later experience, I 

 feel pretty sure of it. — C. W. Colthrup, 127, Barry Road, East 

 Dulwich, S.E. 



Plusia gamma at sugar. — On September 9th last, at 10.80 p.m., 1 

 found two examples of this species at sugared thistle- beads which I 

 believe is rather unusual. — Ibid, 



Roosting habit of butterflies. — With reference to Mr. Lyle's 

 note {antea, vol. xiv., p. 350), and, in response to the Editor's request, I 

 watched a number of Pyrameia eardui go to roost in a tiee near Shorn- 



