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home on the stunted sloe-bushes by the side of a field, where 

 tall grass and wild flowers are half as high as the bushes, with a 

 steep stony torrent-bed on the other side, not far from the station, 

 but on the opposite side of the railway from the Hotel Ferrat. 

 Habits: At Clelles-Mens, the specimens were going over by the last 

 days of July and the first days of August, 1906, flitting, however, 

 strongly about the sloe-bushes, resting on the leaves, and apparently 

 neglecting flowers; their habit of running over the leaves and 

 terminal shoots, led one to hope for eggs, which, however, were 

 not discovered. At Alios, where the species appeared to be widely 

 distributed, although going over during the second week of August, its 

 habits proved to be very interesting. The imagines flew rapidly from one 

 side of the road to the other with a quick darting flight, rested on the 

 blackthorn leaves, or settled towards midday and in the afternoon on 

 many species of flowers, of which yarrow, lavender, scabious, and a 

 large yellow composite plant were the most frequently chosen. Here 

 they sucked the honey towards noon, in the sun, rather restlessly 

 moving their hindwings alternately to and fro, or giving chase to a Poly- 

 ommatus damon that disturbed them, whilst, in the later afternoon, they 

 rested quietly in the shade on the flowers, and sometimes even did not 

 object to be picked off a flower with the fingers. A female, noticed in 

 the bright sun, on the morning of August 12th, set itself across a leaf 

 of blackthorn and carefully inspected the leaf and then the stem near 

 the base of the petiole, doing the same to two or three other leaves 

 before flying away, but nothing appeared to result from the examina- 

 tion. (2) Edwardsia w-album. — By the side of the path near Alios 

 described above, a few elm-trees grew, which were fearfully attacked 

 by some aphid-looking gall-making insects, and these elms were un- 

 doubtedly the local home of this species, two or three exceedingly 

 worn examples of which were picked up on the morning of August 11th, 

 1906, resting on flowers in their immediate vicinity. — J. W. Tutt, 

 119, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



Lepidoptera of 1906. — I am very late in sending you an account 

 of our success here last year, but, at the same time, it was such a record 

 year with us at Paignton that it may be of interest to record what 

 occurred. On May Blst, 1906, I went to watch Silene flowers for 

 Dianthoeciae. On arriving at the place, while still quite light, I saw 

 some hawk moths whizzing about, especially over a patch of pink 

 flowers, and I succeeded in capturing two of them. These turned out 

 to be Phryxus livornica. The same night I also took a specimen of 

 Heliothis peltigera. Both moths are first records for the Paignton 

 district, at all events, as far as any of us now working here are con- 

 cerned. Between May 31st and June 9th, my son took two more 

 Phryxus li vomica, and a friend captured one. I am pleased to say I 

 have these five moths in my cabinet. Heliothis peltigera came to 

 sugar in the autumn, and also Laphygma exigua, so we had a record 

 year. You may be sure I was on the lookout this year, but neither 

 P. livornica nor H. peltigera put in an appearance. I may add that I 

 never remember Geometrids so scarce or backward as this season of 

 1907.— W. E. Goodale, Oaklands, Paignton. J nig 22nd, 1907. 



Abundance of insects at light. — With the change in the weather 

 that occurred about July 10th, the abundance of insects in the south- 

 east London suburban districts at light was quite phenomenal. Many 



