5U THE entomologist's record. 



abundance of insects. From June 5th to June 12th, thunder was 

 heard here every day, and nearly every day a storm, sometimes more 

 than one, passed overhead or quite close to us. On four nights during 

 this tempestuous period moths came freely into the house attracted by 

 the lamps. The first of these exciting nights was that of the 4th, the 

 day before the stormy weather commenced here. Next day it rained 

 nearly all the day and in the night a thunderstorm passed by within 

 four or five miles of us. On the 7th there was, I think, the most terrific 

 thunderstorm I have experienced in England, which, for twenty 

 minutes, reminded me of a storm in the tropics. That night also 

 after the storm had passed, moths swarmed into the open window and 

 kept me busy netting and examining them until l.BO a.m. The other 

 two nights when light was especially attractive were those of the 10th 

 and 11th. The following were the species attracted into the house 

 during this remarkable week: — Xola confiif>alis. — June 10th. Kudidia 

 jncobacae. — June 4th. Spilosoiiia menthastri. — June 4th, 7th, 10th, 

 11th and 12th ; a perfect nuisance : one, however, is a splendid 

 aberration very nearly, if not quite, as spotless as S. urticae. Dasj/chira 

 pndibiinda. — June 4th and 7th. Drepana falcataria. — June 11th. 

 CiU.v (/laiicata. — June 7th. Lopliopteri/.v camdina. — June 4th. Cijiiia- 

 tophora /lucttioaa. — June 11th. Vharetra riiiiiicis. — June 11th. Ai/rotia 

 exdatnationis. — June 7th, 10th and 11th. Xoctua plecta. — June 11th. 

 N. festiva. — June 10th. A", rubi. — June 7th, 10th and 11th. Aplecta 

 prasina. — June 11th. Hadena thalaftsina. — June 4th. //. (jenistac. — 

 June 7th and 11th. H. dentlna.— June 4th, 7th, 10th and 11th. 

 Dianfhoecia cHcubcdi. — June 7th. Xi/lophasia rurea. — June 4th, 9th 

 and 11th. Apamea (/cniina. — June 11th. Eiijde.da Incipara. — June 

 7th and 11th. Hasina tcnebrosa. — June 4th and 11th. Grajimu'sia 

 tn(/ramiiiica. — June 4th, 7th, 10th and 11th ; the commonest visitor: 

 ab. bilinca turned up on the 4th and 11th, and I also took some nice 

 intermediate forms. Habrostola tirticae. — June 10th. Cabera pii.saiia. 

 — June 7th, 10th and 11th. Bapta temerata. — June 7th and 11th. 

 i'an(((/ra petmria. — June 7th. Kitnjinene dolabraria. — June 4th. 

 Odontopera bidcntata. — June 4tb, 7th, 10th and 11th. Tephmsia 

 vrepitsctdaria. — June 7th. ludis lactearia. — June 4th and 11th. 

 Acidalia subsericeata. — June 11th. A. renintata. — June 4tb, 7th and 

 11th. Melanippe sitbstrintata. — June 11th. M. nnauindata. — June 

 11th. il/. iiiontanata. — June 4th, 7th, 10th, and 11th. M. jinctiiata, 

 June4th. Conniiiadi'su/nata. — Junellth. ( '.ferni;/ata. — June7thand 

 11th. C.iDudentaria. — Junellth. Asthena hlomeri. — Junellth. Kiii- 

 mdeda albidata. — June 7th and 11th. L'idaria curijlata. — June 4th and 

 lltb. (;. nmata. — June 7th, 10th and 11th. C. siiff'amota. — June 7th. 

 C. silaceata. — June 7th and 10th. Hi/psipetes iuipluviata. — June 4th. 

 Anaitis plcKjiata. — June 7th and 11th. Eiipit/tecia palchellata. — June 

 7th and 10th. K. larkiata. — June 7th. K. ndi/ata.—Jnne 4th, 7th, 

 10th and 11th. K.rectawiidata. — June 10th. Pionea forficalh. — June 

 11th. I'fiinephele laiiccalis. — June 10th. 



On August 11th, and on another day within a week of that date, I 

 searched a number' of small poplar bushes (about three dozen growing 

 together in one group), and found half-a-dozen or more ova of Leiocanipa 

 dirtai'a, and also a good many empty egg-shells of this species, Cernra 

 rinulo, und a few of Amorp/ia popuU. With the exceptionof one larva of 

 L. divtaea, just emerged from the egg and resting beside the empty shell, 



