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approaching unicolorous. — A. Forsyth, 4, Ranelagh Terrace, Wey- 

 mouth. June ^th, 189 1. 



Erratum. — Page 57, last sentence, for "True though it is, as Mr. 

 Tutt says, that all British 7iimbella are saxicola " read "... that all 

 British nh?ibelia are not saxicola." 



^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season (Lepidoptera). — Castle Moreton. — The 

 season here is very backward, and very little is to be obtained from the 

 sallows. I have been up to the woods four times, and the only insects 

 I have taken worth mentioning are two T(Z7iiocampa miinda, three or 

 four T. rubricosa, and four Lare7iiia multistrigaria. Last night I worked 

 a quantity of sallow bushes through the woods, and, except on one bush 

 in a sheltered corner (having any number of the commonest things on 

 it), not an insect was to be found. It was a warm night and no wind, 

 but there was a bright moon, and this, I believe, is often fatal to a good 

 bag from sallow. — E. C. Dobree Fox, Castle Moreton Vicarage, Tewkes- 

 bury. May, 1 89 1. 



Gloucester. — I have been for a week in Gloucestershire, where I have 

 had the opportunity of working sallow several nights. Insects seemed 

 plentiful as to numbers, but the species were but few. Tce7iioca7npa 

 gothica and T. stabilis swarmed, and Cerastis varcinii and Scopeloso77ia 

 satellitia were fairly numerous, but the better species of sallow-frequenters 

 were conspicuous by their absence. The effect of moonlight on the 

 flight of insects was curious to note. The evening of Thursday, April 

 1 6th, was cloudy, showery, and mild — the sallow bushes were crowded 

 with moths, every blow from the beating stick brought down scores of 

 T. gothica and T. stabilis, but the following evening, when the moon 

 was shining very clearly and the air was cold, the total number of insects 

 taken did not reach a dozen. — M. Kimber. April 2^th, 189 1. 



Newbury. — Before I left home Notodonta trepida, Arctia 77iendica, 

 and Tephrosia biu7idularia were coming out in my forcing-house, and I 

 am glad to say that from half a dozen pupse of Notodo7ita car//ielita 

 bred last year, I have four most perfect imagines. — Id. April, 1891. 



Highbury. — Biston hittaria is again very plentiful on tree trunks, 

 occurring most frequently on lime, often on acacia, occasionally on other 

 trees. I did not see any until April roth ; last year my first record 

 is March 17th. — Francis John Buckell. April iqth. 1891. 



Crosby and Wallasey. — We are having real fine weather now, and 

 what insects are appearing seem fairly plentiful. Nyssia zo7iaria has 

 occurred in hundreds at Crosby, more, I think, than I have ever seen 

 before, and at Wallasey, Larc7itia 7nultist7-igaria has been equally abun- 

 dant. The sallows are very backward and have very few buds, but 

 where the Tcvnioca77ipas are to be found, I believe they are plentiful, 

 except T. opi77ia, of which I have been unable to take a single speci- 

 men. We were at Crosby yesterday looking for Arctia fuligi7iosa larvae. 

 So scarce were they that in two hours we only found about twenty each, 

 while in the autumn it would have been easy to get two hundred in 

 the same time. We picked up two or three Tcenioca77ipa gracilis and 



