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at light ; Tmiiocampa rmmda ; T. opima at light ; Asphalid flavicornis at 

 rest ; Brephos parthenias flying in sunshine ; Hemerophila ahruptaria at 

 light ; Anticlea badiata at light ; Eupithecia nanata at light ; and 

 omitted to mention in last list, Anticlea derivata at rest, and also 

 Phigalia pilosaria. I took my first Tephrosia crcpuscularia on March 8tli, 

 a month earlier than last year, and have since turned up some very 

 nice dark varieties, though they seem much scarcer tlian last year. We 

 may get some later on, as the continued fine weather and no rain is 

 probably keeping the insect from emerging. On jMarch 12th I took a 

 very nice black variety of Phigalia pilosaria ; it is the only variety of 

 this species I have ever seen, though it may be common in some places. 

 I have taken the type freely in Berks and Hants. On the 14th I took 

 Tephrosia consonnria and Argynnis euphrosyne, which I think extremely 

 early, at least in this locality. The nights liave been very bad for my 

 moth traps. I have only had one successful night, viz. on March 7th, on 

 which I took Hemerophila ahruptaria (I), Lohophora lobn]at(i(S), Amplii- 

 dasys prodromaria (2), To'iiiocampa iimnda (1), T. opima (2), Pachnohia 

 rnbricosa (1), Selenia illunaria (2), S. illustraria (1), Enpithecia nanata (1), 

 Cilix fipimda (1), CaJocampa exoleta (1), C. vetnsta (1), A. badiata (3), L. 

 midtistrigaria, Eapithecia abhreriata, with plenty of T. gothica, instaJyilis, 

 cruda, Hybernia progemmaria and Anisopteryx (cscidaria. Tliere has been 

 a frost every night since, so I have taken nothing. — E. B. Kobertson. 

 April 14th, 1893. 



Tyrone. — The season is three weeks early here ! Numeria pulveraria, 

 Eurymene dolobraria, Macroghm<a hombyliformis and Ptilodontis palpina, 

 were taken on the 4th of May. Usually they appear in the first week 

 of June here. — W. F. de Kane, Monaghan. May 5th, 1893. 



Clevedon. — Insects are very early this season. The Geometry are 

 especially plentiful at present ; Nocxi^?-: not so plentiful, neither do 

 any of the last-named yet affect sugar. The long-continued drought 

 is productive of a vast amount of honeydew (even the common 3Ier- 

 curialis is covered with it) ; this being so, we must not look for much 

 success with the sugaring tin, at any rate for a time. I suppose we 

 may look with certainty to have a second brood of many species of 

 insects this season in consequence of the unusually early ap2;)earance 

 (three weeks) in some cases. I took a few specimens of Afithena blomeri 

 the last week in April, and saw Drepana unguicula on the wing the 

 latter end of the second week in the same month. — J. Mason. 

 May 10th, 1893. 



Wicken. — [ was collecting at Wicken last Saturday and Sunday 

 (the 6th and 7th May), where I found Papilio machaon out in fine con- 

 dition, and flying in fair numbers in the Fen. The warm weather has 

 brovight the insect out very early this year, as I heard that it had lieen 

 seen as far back as a fortnight before my visit, and the females had 

 already begun to deposit their ova. Larvae of Lasiocampa quercifolia 

 were .also to be found of various sizes. I took thirteen, varying from 

 about 1^- inches to 4^-inches in length. This is a fairly easy larva to 

 find when one has once got used to its ajipearance. It is to be found 

 resting on buckthorn and sallow bushes, quite near the ground, amongst 

 the grass and reeds, and generally seems to prefer small bushes to large 

 ones. Unfortunately, the nights were clear and cold, with an east 

 -wind, which made sugar and light quite useless, the only insects which 

 came to sugar being two Gonoptera libatrix (the one Avhich I bottled 



