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Durham and Salfburn. — So far as my experience here this summer 

 goes, it has been a very poor season. Both sugar and Hght were 

 failures ; the same result happened on my journey to Scotland in July, 

 though on the two or three moderately fine days we had, Geometry 

 were abundant. On the other hand, at Saltburn in York, in August 

 and September, sugar was very productive, so that its failure or success 

 seems to have been curiously local. My Scotch friends all speak in 

 the most desponding terms of their want of success. Last year was 

 extremely good for sugar (or treacle, as they say in Scotland), this year 

 the reverse ; perhaps next year the times will have changed again, and 

 we north-countrymen shall have a better record. — T. Maddison, 

 Durham. October, 1891. 



Willesden. — I visited my favourite field again this year in May and 

 June, and found some species unusually plentiful, which looked as if 

 the season was going to be a better one. For instance, Heliaca arbuti 

 was the first to appear, and I took a very large number in fine con- 

 dition ; as soon as this was over, Ino statues came on in equal force. 

 My last visit to this particular spot was on June 20th, when by that 

 time / statices was quite a pest, for not infrequently three or four would 

 be seen upon a single clover blossom ; the females then were more 

 plentiful than the males. Euclidia mi was out in abundance at the 

 same time, but I did not take many. Last year Tanagra chcErophyllata 

 swarmed, but this year it was only just emerging when I left, being later 

 than last year. Amongst other species that occurred in the same field 

 was Enunelesia albi/hifa, which was very common on one side only. A 

 good specimen of Drepana hamula also fell to my net. — J. M. Adye. 

 December 2nd, 1891. 



Hampshire. — Having from time to time noticed the different reports 

 on sugaring this year, I might add that my experience coincides with 

 several. At the end of June and beginning of July I made two or 

 three attempts, and not seeing a single insect I did not repeat the 

 experiment until near the middle of September, when there seemed 

 some improvement, which enticed me to continue. On the 20th of 

 that month the weather was unusually stormy, rain falling in torrents 

 the whole day more or less, and, if anything, was rather worse in the 

 evening, so having always good luck on such nights I did not fail to 

 sugar extra trees. On approaching the last one with my brush, I 

 observed a considerable number of specimens, which were attracted 

 evidently by the sugar of the previous evening having been revived by 

 the rain, I was therefore careful not to disturb them, and lighted my 

 lantern almost immediately, when I counted between twenty and thirty 

 on the tree. Most of them were Phlogophora meiiculosa, with one or 

 two Anchocelis lunosa, Xanthia silago, Orihosia 7nacilenta and two fine 

 Xylina petrificata. The other trees, strange to say, only produced a 

 very few, including another A', petrificata, I took four more of this 

 latter species in the best condition on other nights following. I under- 

 stand that sugaring has been again very bad in the New Forest. — Id. 



Neuroptera, Trichoptera and Orthoptera. — IVicken and Neigh- 

 bourhood. — As I was at Wicken this year, a great part of the time Mr. 

 Tutt was there (from August 5th to 19th), a few notes on the insects 

 taken in other orders than Lepidoptera may prove interesting as supple- 

 mentary to Mr. Tutt's paper on the Lepidoptera, which appeared in the 



