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])resent attended with very good results. Sugar once more seems to 

 have regained its former attractiveness, and night after night each 

 patch is well covered with visitors. At Askham Bog, close to the 

 city, I have done most ; Collix sparsata being very common, flying 

 round buckthorn bushes at dusk, whilst Phibalapteryx lignata ranks 

 among the most plentiful of Geometers. Acronycta ( Cuspidia) leporina 

 (all of the variety bradyporind) has been taken in fair numbers and in 

 fine condition, and last night I captured at sugar a most beautiful 

 variety of Nodua rubi, which is of a bright yellow colour. This 

 species has been abundant this year. — S. Walker, York. July 'jth, 1891. 



Clifton {near Bristol). — The season so far, though very backward 

 through April, May, and the early part of June, has been a fairly 

 favourable one, many of the common species being present in very 

 large numbers and some of our uncertain visitants well represented. 

 The lateness of appearance of some of the spring species as compared 

 with last year is however very striking ; Tephrosia punctu/ata, for 

 instance, which I recorded in 1890 from April 19th to May 5th, I did 

 not meet with this year till May 9th, after which I continued to find 

 it until June nth. Pieris rapce, P. brassicce, and Acronycta {Cuspidia) 

 psi also were three or four weeks late as compared with last year's 

 records. Sugar was an utter failure here during May : hearing of 

 others' success I shall now be encouraged to make another attempt. — 

 Geo. C. Griffiths. July gth, 1891. 



Tilgate and the Neiv Forest. — The season has not been much of a 

 success with me. With Sesia sphegiformis I have done fairly well, but 

 not much else, and they were quite three weeks late. On Thursday, 

 July loth, I went for a trip to the New Forest for a few days. I did 

 not find insects plentiful, nothing came to sugar, and it could hardly 

 be classed as a satisfactory expedition. Limenitis sybilla was fairly 

 common, Argynnis paphia var. valezina, I did not see, but had hardly 

 time to look for it. Larva beating was fairly successful ; 2 Notodonta 

 chaofiia, 2 JV. dodonca, 3 Asphalia ridens, with Aniphidasys prodromaria, 

 Ennomos angu/aria, and E. erosaria falling into the tray. The pretty 

 little Calligenia miniata was fairly common at dusk. I had the pleasure, 

 however, of making tlie acquaintance of two species new to me, i.e., 

 Acosmetia caliginosa and Macroglossa bombyliforniis. Of the former, I 

 took five flying in the sunshine on being kicked up in grassy rides ; it 

 is extremely local, and on being kicked up flies a short distance and 

 then goes down again, and frequently will not again take flight but goes 

 down to the bottom of the grass. Thus you may hunt out a corner 

 they frequent until there are apparently none left, but on returning in 

 an iiour or so you may find more. Of M. bombyliforniis I found a few 

 larvai feeding on Devil's Bit Scabious, and hard work it was hunting 

 for them in the scorching sun, with a dozen forest flies as large as wasps 

 or larger, flying about one. I am told it is difficult to rear ; I have 

 planted the Scabious in a pot and put the larva; on it under muslin, — 

 A. Robinson. July i^th, 1891. 



Bants, Winchester. — In one little night expedition I first picked up 

 three beautiful Angerona priinaria, one 5 who has laid a few eggs — 

 this insect I have never taken here before ; they are of a rich orange 

 throughout, without the dusky margin. I then put my sugar on, and 

 on the way back took Bistihia lignstri flying round an ash tree ; she 



