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numbers. Hyppa rectilinea is exceedingly scarce, I have only taken 

 one specimen. I was successful in taking a short series of Retinia 

 duplana and Leptogramma scotana in Morayshire. Viminia tnyricm, 

 V. 7nenyanihidis, Hadena dissimilis (i), Viminia rumicis, Rusina 

 te/iebrosa, H. dentina, X. rurea and its var. combusta, T. batis and 

 H. pisi are turning up at sugar in more or less abundance. I have 

 netted Hypsipetes impliiviata, H. ruberata, Chesias obliquaria, Macaria 

 ii/urata, Eupithecia satyrata and its var. callufiaria, E. indigata, E. 

 nanata, E. vulgata, E. minutata, E. pumilata, Lobophora lobulata, 

 Tephrosia biundularia, Phigalia pilosaria, Amphisa prodromana, S, 

 palustrana, Phoxopteryx niyrtillana, P. biaramna, Peronea niixtatia, etc. 

 — A. HoRNE, Aberdeen. June 20th, 1892. 



Winchester. — I began to sugar on the last day of May, and my first 

 bag was three Bisulcia ligustri and three Cymatophora or. I went 

 again the next night and took seven C. or, six B. ligustri., one Cuspidia 

 alni., one C. leporina., Euplexia lucipara, Hadena thalassina, If. pisi, 

 Agroiis cinerea, five Granimesia trilinea, two Noctua /estiva, one Demas 

 coryli (at my lamp), one Thyatyra batis, etc. Not to go too much into 

 detail, I have taken altogether {all at sugar), in the same ride, three 

 C. alni, four C. leporina, forty Aplecta herbida, twenty-three A. iincta, 

 three A. cinerea, twenty-one B. ligustri (they soon get worn), twenty- 

 five C. or, one Diantluvcia cucubali, one Neuria saponaricB, seven 

 Chariclea marginata, five Xylophasia hepatica, eleven Noctua brunnea, 

 nine A. segefum, three Apamea gemina, one H. contigua, two H. genistce, 

 five JV. c-nigrum, one Leucania pollens, one Xylophasia sublustris, 

 two A. corticea, eleven T. extersaria, one Eurymene dolobraria, four 

 Boarmia repatidata, three B. cotisortaria, Cabera exanthemaria, Asthena 

 candidata, and lodis lactearia and any quantity of Euplexia lucipara, 

 JV. /estiva, T. batis, A. exclamationis, Tripha'na pro7iuba, Apamea 

 basilinea, A. 7iebulosa, H. thalassina, Rusina tenebrosa. I learnt a 

 great deal, so much that I hardly know how to arrange it. The 

 following appear to be the chief facts: — i. Geotnefers — especially the 

 Boarmidce — came freely to sugar. 2. IVola cristulalis does not come 

 (there were lots about), whereas N. strigula does. I took a fine 

 series one year, on sugar, at Lyndhurst. 3. The etiquette about a 

 made ride ought to be most stringent. If a man has sugared three 

 times in a ride, he ought to have an absolute claim on it. I say this 

 for two reasons : {a) More insects came every successive evening. 

 Objection — They may have been coming out fast. Answer — Many 

 were very worn, (p) After three nights absence and a heavy rain, the 

 wind changed, and I sugared the opposite side of the tree ; there 

 were three times as many insects on the old place as the new, right 

 in the wind. 4. Atmospheric conditions. The best night, in point of 

 numbers, was in a pouring rain. I still shudder at that night. I 

 started in a drizzle, and when I got to the wood every tree was 

 dripping, and it was roaring with pain — pouring with rain, I mean. 

 I had on a mackintosh and a 'brolly, and filled two collecting boxes 

 (I wanted to renew E. lucipara, H. thalassina, T. batis, A. nebulosa, 

 N. /estiva). But whenever one opened a box, in came the rain, so I 

 knelt in the mud and held the box, etc., under the umbrella, and the 

 strong wind kept blowing the 'brolly away. I reached home in a 

 piteous plight, but with my insects in a perfect state. Moonlight made 



