286 THE entomologist's record. 



out of about thirty, sixteen were taken on one morning. Among the 

 " Plumes " Marasmarcha phceodactyla and Aciptilia baliodadyla were 

 extremely abundant. The disappointment of the visit was Lithosia 

 cani'ola, of which we only took one specimen. In a good season, 

 Torquay would well repay a visit, but sugaring, upon which so much 

 depends at Torquay, was far from being productive, except on two or 

 three nights this year. — E. C. Dobr^e Fox. October, 1891. 



Folkestone. — Anchocelis nifina was very plentiful here at sugar in 

 September, together with a few Xanthia ferruginea, A. pis tact na, 

 Agriopis apriliua and Agrotis futa, while A^. silago was swarming one 

 evening at the scabious flowers. — E. W. Brown, Shorncliffe Camp, 

 Folkestone. 



Ne7vlmry.- — I have not been able to work very constantly or regu- 

 larly here this season, except in June, early July, and the end of last 

 month. Most weeks I have had but one evening's collecting, and it is 

 hardly fair to judge a season from such casual experiences, but I should 

 on the whole consider the season a good one, except for sugaring, 

 which with me has been a total failure. Some insects appeared here 

 in considerable numbers, which before have only occurred singly, 

 LohopJiora sexalisata, Lithosia mesomella, Acidalia emarginata and 

 Platyptilia berfravii for example. L. sexalisata flies immediately before 

 dusk ; all my specimens were taken among sallow. Acidalia emargin- 

 ata I found by searching bramble hedges after dark, they hang with 

 outspread wings from leaves and twigs, and are very conspicuous by 

 lamp light. P. bertraini is usually taken only after dusk. In a piece of 

 swampy ground hundreds of this species were flying at night early in 

 July, but hours of laborious beating in the daytime failed to disturb a 

 single specimen from a[nong the heather, rushes and yarrow {Aciiillea 

 ptarmica). The little swamp I speak of yielded a nice series oi Ntidaria 

 senex, some Leucania pudorina, Schrankia turfosaliSy and Hypenides 

 costcestrigalis, all fresh additions to our local list. Butterflies appear to 

 have been very scarce, especially the Vanessidff, but the great failure of 

 the season here has been the sugaring; throughout the summer it has 

 been curiously unproductive. In June some Grainniesia trilinea and 

 Miana strigilis were attracted, and three or four nights early in July 

 yielded about two dozen Lencania ttirca, but this was the only species 

 present, although sugaring produced such good results at this very 

 time at Reading and elsewhere. I tried six different hunting grounds 

 in this district but met with the same disap]:)ointing results in them all. 

 The last week in September proved slightly better, but even then the 

 insects were few, my largest " take " on a single night being 5 Xanthia 

 citrago, 2 Cerastis vaccinii, 2 Anchocelis lunosa, i A. rufina, 10 A. 

 litiira, 2 A. pistacina, i Catocala nnpta, and 2 Agriopis aprilina. — 

 M. KiMBER, Cope Hall, Newbury. October 6fh, 1891. 



Marlborough. — I was at Marlborough for a week at the beginning of 

 August. Instead of Nociua depi/ncta, which I meant to take, persistent 

 sugaring produced 2 Triplucna promiba and i Noctua xanthographa. 

 I netted nice series of Peronea aspersana, P. variegana, P. schallertana 

 and Pa-disca solandriana; and took Scoparia cenibrce and Crambus 

 falsellus singly. In the flower heads of Valerian ( V. officinalis) I found 

 numbers of EupithecicE larvae, which, from descriptions, I believe, will 

 prove to be Eupithecia valerianata, a species only added to the 



