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or nearly so. I dug up some roots of pAipatorium, and planted thern 

 in the garden. Having the larvse on the plants I went away with a 

 clear conscience. On looking in my pupa box to-day, I found eleven 

 beauties had emerged, and two cripples. — R. B. RoiiKUTSON, Swansea. 

 July will, 1892. 



Times of Flight. — I see {afite, p. 186) it stated by Mr. Quail that 

 Satumia carpmi rviales fly between 2.30 and 4.30 p.m., there is no 

 doubt but that they do ; but my experience of the species is that the 

 males are on the wing before 1 1 a.m. ; and I have always found them 

 more difficult to net between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., /.<?., at the hottest 

 part of the da)', when the sun is shining. — J. Finlav, Morpeth. /Itigust 

 29///, 1892. 



Late Appearance of Noctu/e ox Sugar, — During the years that 

 I have collected at "treacle," I have often looked for the "second 

 (light" of moths that the old collectors talk of, but hitherto without 

 succes^s, although after a good night I have frequently turned out after 

 supper for a late round, and my usual reward has been at most one or 

 two of the fewer good species wanted. Last night, however (September 

 6th), lighting up at 7.30 p.m., with cold wind (S.W.) and very clear 

 sky, we met with fair but continued success until about the usual hour 

 and a half had expired, when we retired, moths being scarce the last 

 round. On looking out about 10.30, I found the full moon very much 

 overclouded, and that, with the warmth and absence of dew, tempted 

 me out again. I found common species on very plentifully, in fact, 

 more so than the first round, including Nodiia xatithographa, c-nigrwn, 

 A. segdum and suffusa, with a few P. meticulosa, etc. Amongst these 

 were scattered about the usual sprinkling of the species I was working 

 for, viz., A. obelisca and A. australis ; and in several rounds I took five 

 of the latter against three the early part of the evening, and just half 

 the number (which was already a ^^ record") of the former species that 

 I had previously secured, thus bringing up the evening's total to a 

 larger take than I have ever had of obelisca. On the last round (about 

 I a.m.) common things still came on freely, and I had just previously 

 secured my second A. saucia. — ALfiERT J, Hodges, Freshwater. 

 September 6th, 1892. 



Errata. — p. 148, line 20. For " 8 to 12 p.m.," read " from 8 a.m. 

 to 12 noon." 



p. 187, line 4 from bottom. For "anything but sallow," read 

 " nothing but sallow." 



p. 176, line 17 from bottom. For "vilalbata, etc., 16 days," read 

 " vitalbata, etc., 6 days." 



Societies. 



City of London Entomological Society. — August \Zih, 1892. — 

 Exhibits : — Mr. Smith, Hesperia lineola, Acidalia inwiutata, A. emar- 

 ginata from Leigh, Essex ; and a series of Pa^nphila actoeon from 

 Swanage. Mr. Tremayne, Bombyx quercus, bred from larvae from Deal ; 

 also Hemiihea thymiaria and Phorodesma bajularia from the New 

 Forest. Mr. Nicholson, a series of Vanessa cardui, bred from ova 



