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winter on clamp sand, with a layer of moss over them. Damp is 

 necessary to them. The perfect insect emerges early in the morning, 

 in June and July. — G. M. A. IIewett, St. Winifride, Winchester. 



Xanthia Ai'KAGO, &c. — I think we had a very good season last year. 

 Certainly Xanthui aurago was plentiful, but 1 was not able to work 

 them as I did last year. In one evening, however, I got almost a 

 hundred sjjecimens, and most likely should have taken many more, but 

 a thunderstorm drove them under leaves and made it rather more 

 difficult to find them ; two nights before I got a considerable number ; 

 that was also a dripping night, almost impossible to get them dry into 

 the killing bottles. Agrot/K saticiu was also fairly abundant, and I was 

 pleased to find that in Jul}', I had netted as pecimen of Cmuptogramma 

 flvriatd, which has not been before recorded in our Reading list. I 

 also captured a specimen of CaJmnin lutosa ; only one I think has been 

 found here before. We had a close search for the larva^ this year but 

 failed, although I hope for better luck next year. We got a very fair 

 number of the larva? of Nonagria geiiiinqunicid, and the}' came out well. 

 E. Bazett, IJeading. [C hitosa, I believe, feeds very differently from 

 iV. geniinipinictd, going down completely into the roots, whilst the latter 

 feeds in the stem. — Ed.]. 



ArTi'niNAL CoLLECTixii IN THE Xew Fokest. — Wishing tK try a 

 little autiimual collecting in the New Forest, and iK)t 1 )eing able to find 

 any information in my entomological books as to Avorkaljle ivy, treacling, 

 &c., I came to the conclusion that, either it was an unproduetive locality at 

 tliat season, or that collectoi's did not record their visits, or rarely visited 

 it at all during the fall of the leaf. Being anxious to see what the New 

 Forest really was like as an autunnial collecting gromid, I journeyed 

 down to Lyndhurst on the 13th September, for a fortnight's stay. 

 Mr. Moljerlys note in the November number of the Record ^vas, 

 naturally, very interesting to me, as we appear to have been treacling 

 in different parts of the Forest at the same time. His localit}^ (Avhich, 

 by the A\'ay, it Avould be desirable to know) though " quite apart from 

 the usual haunts of entomologists," does not seem to have i^roduced a 

 much gTcater A'ariety of species than the one I treacled (which Ls very 

 much frequented for this purpose), viz., the path leading from Beechen 

 Lane to the garden of. the '"Crown and Stirrup," and then turning 

 off to the left at a right angle to a ride leading into the Brockenhurst 

 Eoad. I treacled here on nine evenings only, and my captures were^ 

 Avith a ivw exceptions, identical as regards species with Mr. Moberly's. 

 I did not see Triphiena stihseqiia, Calocumpd vetnatn, TJii/ati/ra hat/'s, 

 Goiioptira lihiitrix, Epimda nigra, Orthopia macilenta, Miselia oxi/(ic(udhce 

 c>r Catocala jjromissd, but in their places I got McUiuia ferrngined (2\ 

 Cidiirid piiittdcdta (1), Thera firmata (2 Avorn), and some nice si)ecimens 

 of T. variata (second brood). With the exception of Asplialia dilvta 

 (during first week), Orrhodia vaccinii, Xylina rhizoJitha and Scopelosoma 

 safeViiid, I did not find any of the species especially common. I took 

 one each of Xanthia cerago, Orthosia lota, Noctna negJecta and Ancliocelis 

 hinosa. I got six jjerfect specimens of Xylina petrificaia, which were 

 all I saw. Mr. Hewett of Winchester, who treacled in my locality 

 once or t^viee, got tAvo or three more I belicA-e. The times of first 

 appearance Aary someAvhat from Mr. Moberly's list, as follows : — 

 0. lota, on Septemlier 22nd : A. litvrd. September 16tli ; X. cerago and 

 N. neglecta. Se])teml)L'r 20th: .1. dprilina. Septendier 21st ; 0. vaccinii, 



