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•on each side of the railway line, up the hill from the loch, and into 

 the wood beyond. A nice patch of heather blossom on the railway 

 'bank itself also proved very attractive. Posts, trees, and ragwort 

 blossom were treacled, and the latter proved to be far the most attrac- 

 tive. On the first night (August 19th) the moth of the evening was 

 Noctua dahlii. They wanted picking over, but were very abundant, 

 and a fine lot were selected. N. (jlareom was nearly as common, 

 ■especially on heather, and one very beautiful variety was taken. This 

 was of the typical (jlareom grey colour, but marked almost like Ai/rotis 

 ■tritici, with pale whitish costa and strong pale streak below the 

 stigmata. Citria Intea (sUai/o) was common, and Iladena protea just 

 coming out and most stronglj' marked, ni/droccio micacea, H. lucens ('?), 

 ^and Triphaena fiinbria were not uncommon, and two Xi/lophasia 

 monoj/li/pha {pidjjdou) occurred, one absolutely fresh specimen being the 

 blackest I have ever seen. P<dia chi was common on stone walls, and 

 on one wall up the hillside Cidaria innnanata was in great numbers. 

 "This latter species also came freely to heather blossom, and on my next 

 visit (September 3rd and 4th) the}- were even more plentiful, especially 

 on ragwort and on scabious blossom in the wood. Treacle on this 

 latter date had a much more autumnal appearance. The two principal 

 species were Anchocelis rtifina and Hadena protea. They were both 

 very common and very richly coloured — much darker and more 

 strongly marked than our southern forms. Noctiia dahlii, Triphaena 

 fimbria, Vitria Intea, Hi/droecia micacea and fJ. liicenn (?) were still in 

 ■evidence, and new comers were Anchocelis litnra (common), Calocampa 

 retusia, ('. solidai/i)us (two, one of them on heather), Kpnnda nii/ra, 

 Scoliopteri/,r libatn.v and Mi)<elia oxi/acant/iae. Polia chi this time also 

 came to treacle and heather. 



Except for a couple of evenings at Richmond Park and a very 

 successful hunt for Nona(/ria uparj/anii pup* in Kent, this finished up 

 my year's collecting. In the former locality the two wet summers 

 have greatly strengthened up the rushes on the ground tenanted by 

 TapimMola fidra, and this species was in immense numbers and great 

 variety. Lnperina cespitis was rarer than usual and the other regular 

 species, H. teatacea, Charaeas c/raminis, Heliophobns popiilaris, Ancho- 

 celis bmosa and Hi/droecia nictitans were about normal. One Xoctna 

 fllareofta was taken, but I did not try treacle, and only worked for 

 moths at rest on the grass. 



I have no personal knowledge of autumn work this year, but 

 l)elieve, from all accounts, that the attraction of treacle failed entirely 

 after August. Still without this, I have taken, or seen, far more 

 species of Xoctnae than ever before in a single season, and I shall be 

 very well satisfied if I never experience a worse collecting year than 

 1910. 



Choleva fuliginosa (Catops fuliginosus), Er., a species new to 



Britain. 



By G. W. NICHOLSON, M.A., M.D., F.E.S. 

 On going over the Cholevae I had taken last year, with the help of 

 Ganglbauer's book, I came to the conclusion that I possessed specimens 

 of Cholera fnlii/inosa, Er. Captain Deville has kindly supplied nie 

 with continental types of this species, which are identical with my 

 .specimens. 



