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woods, and one or two at sugar. A. straminata, by brushing the heath 

 during the afternoon and evening — a good series. After finding the 

 larv£e of Boarmia roboraria last year, I have been following it up this 

 summer, and have taken the moth freely in the same woods, at rest on 

 tree trunks (often high up), stretched out as big as it can make itself and 

 easily seen. I got two more Ai-gynnis paphia var. vaiesina, both in 

 our beech woods, and three others have, I hear, been taken among the 

 beeches some sixteen miles from here. Heterogenea limacodes and Aventia 

 Jlexiila, beaten from oak bushes and trees. Anticlea cucullata has 

 turned up again this year. Two I got were quite in the wood among 

 Asperula odorata, I wonder if it ever feeds on that. Eiipacilia flavi- 

 ciliafia, netted again on the same hill as last year, A fair lot of 

 No7iagrta geminipiincta. Selenia lunaria, beaten from bushes in June. 

 Lithosia mesomella, L. aureola, Asthena blomeri, A. sylvata, Hepialus 

 sylvinus, Lobophora lobulata, Tephrosia conso7iaria, T. biuiidularia, 

 Eupisteria oblitaria, Cerigo matura, Nodua stignuitica, and the Drepaiuh 

 lidce are some of the things which were particularly abundant. Zonosoina 

 lijiearia was especially swarming, and, as Dr. Buckell remarks, out a 

 long time, from the middle of June till the end of August. At the end 

 of July, and throughout August, they took to coming to sugar in 

 scores. Zonosofiia o/nicrofiaria, Eupithecia venosata, Coremia quadri- 

 fasciaria, Anticlea riibidata, Lobophora halterata, L, viretata, Acidalia 

 inornata, Emmelesia decolorata, Ptilodontis palpina, Hyria nuirinaia, 

 Erastria fascia/ia, Epione advenaria, Liparis }}ionacha, DiantJwecia 

 ttana, Lithosia coniplana and others were tolerably frequent. Cidaria 

 silaceata, Eucosmia iindulata, Boarmia co/isortaria, Acronycta {Cuspidia) 

 leporina, LLalias bicolorana and Sarothripa Jindulana occasional. Stau- 

 r(?/?/5/^7^/ being so abundant this year, I thought that there was an unusually 

 good opportunity to look out for the little ways of the animal. A 

 grand moth like this ought to do something to distinguish itself, but 

 it does not after all. It was found at all hours of the day, from early 

 morning until dark, on all sides of the tree and at all heights from the 

 ground. Three out of four moths were found on small trees ; but 

 then, our beech woods, though of old standing, are cut severely, and 

 there are twenty small trees to one of fair size, so that says nothing. 

 S. fagi seems just to come out and sit on a tree in a very common- 

 place fashion. They were found over a period of two months, from 

 the middle of May till the middle of July. Eggs of these, laid on 

 June 2nd, began to hatch June i8th. The little larvce ate nothing 

 for a day or so, then fed up well sleeved on apple. They often fought 

 when they crossed each other's paths, and a number lost legs or por- 

 tions of legs in these battles ; but this loss did not always prevent 

 their pupating, whether it will interfere with the proper emergence of 

 the moth, I cannot say. In hunting for the larvae of 6". fagi, it paid 

 better to search than to beat. Like the moths they are to be found 

 for a long time. I got them fully grown at the beginning of August, 

 and lately, I have taken some quite young ones, which will evidently 

 feed as long as the leaves remain good. I have found them in nearly 

 all our woods, mostly on beech, but some on birch and oak. These 

 fagi did not spin up in the green leaves on the tree, as Newman says, 

 but always in dead leaves at the bottom of the sleeve, on the side of 

 the sleeve itself, and in the woods I have found them crawling on the 



