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setting boards. HydreUa mica was scarce, and only just emerging ; we 

 captiired two onl}'. Euclldia mi, E. glyphica and Phytometra <xnea, 

 ■with Fidonia atomar/'a, were also seen witli great satisfaction, as the 

 salient feature of our experience of the Fens, up to this expedition, had 

 l)een the complete absence of even the commonest day-flj'ing species. 

 Not satisfied with one blank visit to Tuddenham, we embraced the early 

 chance of a more favourable day to repeat the trial, but with a precisely 

 similar result ; and a visit still later, by another entomologist, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Houghton, resulted only in the captvire of one Lithostege 

 (jriseata, which was also fully due out. A good series of Hecatera 

 Serena, quite fresh, was obtained at rest upon pine trunks round 

 Tuddenham, and even this common species was hailed with delight. 

 Towards the end of our stay (which terminated on June 6th), sugar 

 proved too great an attraction to be resisted by AjAecta advena, of which 

 a good series in fine condition was secured, but this species is here 

 curiously local, one " drove " being much more prolific than other 

 localities tried. Amongst other captures at si;gar were : — Neuria sappo- 

 narice, Apauiea unanimis (scarce) ; Rusina tenehrosa, Axylia pmtris, and 

 several other commoner species in fair numbers, but all of -which, ex- 

 cepting A. nnnnimi)<., are regular visitors to my siigar at Freshwater. A 

 few Chcerocaiiipa elpenor visited the sugar, and a fine series oi Enpithecia 

 redangulata was taken off apple trunks, after dark, by careful search- 

 ing. An account of our stay here would be incomplete without 

 allusion to " the " lamp, which, though commencing its career under 

 very inauspicious circumstances, will be heard of again. Mr. Abbott, to 

 whose fertile brain the juvenile Eddystone owes it conception, could 

 never be jDersuaded to abandon his faith in its powers of ultimately 

 overcoming at some late period of night, the adverse influence of 

 easterly winds or heavy dews ; and we waited patiently in its cheerful 

 radiance for the Macrogaster arnndinis which never came, and the good 

 Fen " Wainscots," which (with the exception of one more 31. flanimea, 

 and one Leucania inidoriaa), declined to be fascinated to their doom. 

 We had one fairly sixital:)le evening, when a few Hermima cribralis 

 fluttered round early, whilst between 9.0 p.m. and mid-night, an occa- 

 sional insect appeared, to incite us to the exercise necessary to revivify 

 our chilled frames; but of these, Notodonta ziczac and Smerinthus jiopuli, 

 with the two above-named specimens, were the most noteworthy. As 

 the proverb promises a good ending to a bad beginning, it is to be 

 hoped that our next visit to this undoubted El Dorado, may at least 

 give us some capture Avorthy of record. Of larva?, we observed 

 amongst internal feeders, Chilo phragmitellus full-fed, with pupa?, and 

 towards the end of our stay, a few imagines ; also nearly full-fed, an 

 abundance of Calamia phragmitidis, -whilst at Chippenham the beautiful 

 green larva of PInsia orichalcea was to be taken, but was more rare 

 than in other seasons. During a short visit to Ely, I was veiy pleased 

 to obtain, in old reed seems, one or two pupa? of Leiicania obsoleta, one 

 of which promptly emerged and proved a very fine specimen. We 

 obtained at the same time what I believed to be pupa? of Leucania 

 straminea, and also full-fed larva? of Calamia pliragmitidis. On our 

 way back to town, a stay was made for one evening's work in the 

 neighbourhood of Ely, when, owing to the kindness of Mr. Cross in 

 showing us his locality, we were fortunate in netting at dusk two more 

 Leucania obsoleta, and one fine Senta idvae, but were rather early for 



