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31st May, 1 89 1, binaria was flying in some numbers in the glades 

 near Fairmead. Among the GEOMETRiE, Venilia maculata, Ephyra 

 punctaria, Bapta temerata and taitmiata, Melaiiippe inontanata, 

 Coremia nnidmtaria and ferrugata in the Chingford section, and 

 Alelanthia ocellata, Ephyra li/iearia, Acidalia remuiaria, Asthena candi- 

 data, and Lomaspilis 7nargi)mta in the Monkswood and Wake Arms 

 divisions are to be knocked out. E. linearia is often quite a 

 nuisance. Euryviefie dolobraria and N. ptilveran'a have been taken 

 in the Chingford and Monkswood sections. Among the footmen 

 Lithosia aureola {sororcula) may occasionally be disturbed near Ching- 

 ford, or seen flying late in the afternoon. One specimen of E. porata 

 fell to the beating stick in the same locality. At dusk, Hepiahts 

 lupJiH?i?is, Apamea basiHnea, Nodiia plecta, lodis lactearia, Emmelesia 

 albiilata and decolorata and L. aduslata are to be found in the 

 Chingford Forest. E. decolorata and Z. adustata are only taken 

 sparingly, the others are cfommon. {To be continued^ 



Spring Notes. — Liverpool. — At Knowsley, on April loth, I got 

 black Diii7-naa fagella, and the following day at Crosby found Nyssia 

 zofiaria abundantly. — J. E. Robson. April 16th, 1892. 



Reading. — The weather changed to cold just when the sallows were 

 attracting moths rather freely. Endro77iis versicolor h^d d\so begun lo 

 emerge, but have stopi^ed again. — W. Holland. April i6lh, 189?. 



Carlisle. — I have taken a specimen of Nyssia hispidaria, which I 

 believe is new to the district. I also took a pair of Calocampa exoleia, 

 in copula, on March 26th, whilst Lare?ilia nmltistrigaria a.rL6. Tortricodes 

 hyetnana are now out in abundance. — C. E.'\les. March 30///, 1892. 



Wanstead Flats. — I took two specimens of Tceniocampa opima after 

 several fruitless journeys on Wanstead Flats. — k. W. Mera. April 

 25M, 1892. 



Stony Stratfo?-d. — I took a freshly-emerged male Spilosonia hdmcipeda 

 on February 13th, some 30 yards from a small furnace. Probably it 

 had spun up near. — W. Foddy. Alarch 'jth, 1892. 



Isle oj Man. — Moths have been somewhat abundant at the sallows 

 lately. On the evenings of the 9th and loth inst., I visited some 

 bushes in the neighbourhood of Lezayre. Both nights were bright, 

 moonlight, and rather cold ; but, notwithstanding this, insects swarmed. 

 Tceniocampa gothica and T. instabilis were the commonest species to 

 be met with, and these varied to a most extraordinary degree, and are 

 in splendid condition. I also took some beautiful specimens of T. 

 stabilis and Anticlea badiata. I might mention here that I have never 

 found T. stabilis until this year. — H. Shortridge Clake, 2 Osborne 

 Terrace, Douglas. 



Epping — All fine species of the genus Hybernia occur in considerable 

 numbers in Epping Forest. H. IcucopJucaria we get both very light 

 and fine dark forms, and there is also a very pretty dark banded form, 

 the $ can be found on fences and tree trunks in the daytime, h. 

 rupicapraria, until this season, I thought a local species in our Forest, 

 but with the assistance of my friend, Mr. F. B. Harvey, I have taken it 

 on every whitethorn hedge between London, Epping, Enfield, etc., 

 which we searched ; the ? 's, about an hour after dark, are found at the 

 bottom of the hedges, later on, about the middle and interior, and still 

 later, on the outside and top of the hedges. Those ^J's taken within 



