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Epione advenaria is common in a certain wood near here, but I have 

 not taken it this year. — (Miss) A. J. Marindin. 



St. Ann^s-oji-Sea. — We are having a rattUng season here both with 

 macros and micros. The larvce of Or^yia fascelina and Leucania littoralis 

 have turned out better this year than before ; sugar has also succeeded 

 much better this season. Acronyda ( Viminia) rumicis, Miana fasciuncula, 

 M. strigilis var. cethiops, Mamestra albicolon, Agrotis corticea, Leucania 

 comma, Hadena adusia, etc., turning up with hosts of other commoner 

 insects. The micros that have turned up and still are coming, are 

 Gelechia temerella, G. sororculella, G. artemisiella, G. 7iiar»iorea, G. 

 jinibrosella, G. mundella, Tinea inielia, Depressaria contaminella, D. 

 assimilella, G. deserlella, etc., together with a lot of common ones. The 

 T. imella we get in one little spot only a few feet square, evidently been 

 an ash heap once, now covered over with grass, and in this spot tliey 

 fairly swarm. We got a very red TripJuvna orbona the other night, 

 about the reddest I have ever seen, also one or two funnily marked T. 

 pronuba. Depressaria liturella is just coming out and we have got a few 

 already. G. temerella up to now seems to be very abundant, having 

 only appeared a day or two ago. — H. Baxter, St. Anne's-on-Sea. 

 July isth, 1 89 1. 



The South Coast. — Although, in common with the majority of our 

 collectors this season, short records of my doings have appeared in these 

 columns, the following notes may be read with interest, especially by 

 those who have been able during the same period to collect in the same 

 district ; and I trust, also, by many further away, to whom any information 

 even as to our commoner species, is interesting reading, and to whom 

 we southerners are indebted for so many good things. In the first place 

 although it is by most agreed, that, to " prophesy unless you know," is 

 risky, yet I must congratulate myself that my prognostications of a good 

 season, have in my own experience been quite justified by the result, 

 and I trust all my entomological friends have been equally successful, 

 in which case I think the Postmaster-General may look forward with 

 confidence to a " boom " in the returns of the Parcels Post Department, 

 and the exchange columns of the next few numbers of the Record will 

 be found useful during the busy time of re-arranging and enlarging 

 series to which we all look forward as such a pleasant finish to a good 

 season's work. The general opinion seems to be, from our experience 

 of this season after the phenomenally severe winter, that such old- 

 fashioned and seasonable winters are favourable to the prospects of the 

 lepidopterist, and I trust we may, next year, have the opportunity of 

 further confirming this opinion. 



Owing to other engagements I was unable to do much collecting 

 during the early part of the year, and in fact did not leave home till the 

 beginning of June. I had the opportunity, however, towards the end 

 of May, through the kindness of friends, of getting news from what, in 

 former seasons, I have found to be a stronghold of a favourite little 

 butterfly with me, Nemeobius lucina, viz., Wychwood Forest in 

 Oxfordshire, to which, through the courtesy of Mr. Wynne, I have free 

 access. In former seasons in some of the flowery glades, I have been 

 able to take as many as six in my net at a time, flying freely over the 

 primroses although settling; rarely on anything except the bracken ferns, 

 with which the glades are bordered. My friends were rather early, and, 



