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work in the fens at sugar : — Tapino^tola hellmanni (4)," Lencania pudorma 

 (1), Galauiia phragmitidis (24), L. lithargyria, L. p)allen$, L. impuva (com- 

 mon), Gxnohia rufa (1), Cerigo cijtherea (4), Helotropha leucostigma 

 (swarms), banded variety (8), Agrotis nigricans (common), Triphcena 

 interjecta (2). Sugar on the trees in the lane outside the fen produced 

 N. hellmanni (1), C. ])hragmitidis (2), L. griseola (6), Cuspidia p)si (1), 

 a fresh sjDecimen, evidently of a second brood, L. pollens, L. impura, 

 L. lithargi/ria, Noctua umbrosa (2), N. ruhi, N. /estiva, N. haia, N. 

 xanthographa, N. augur, Miana literosa (1), M. strigilis, A. nigricans, 

 A. segetutn, A. exclamationis, T. fronidja, T. orhona, T. interjecta, T. 

 ianthina (1), Caradrina blanda, C. morphem, C. cuhicidaris (2), U. fibrosa, 

 C. cytherea, Calymnia afiiais (2), C. di^nis (14), A. tvagopoginis, M. 

 typica, M. maura, C. nnpta (1). Light in the fen was a failure except 

 on the 29th, which was a warm showery night with a slight S.W. 

 wind. On that night we took V. venosa (2), N. helhnanni (2), C. rvfa 

 (3), C. phragmitidis (4), L. griseola (1), L. impura, L. pollens, A. fibrosa, 

 Epione apiciaria (8), Acidalia inornata (1), Eupithecia nanata (1), 

 (? Ed.) Phibalapteryx lignata (1), Earias chlorana (1), Chilo phragmi- 

 tellus (6), besides doing well at sugar, whicli amply repaid us for oiu* 

 wetting. Dusking only produced E. apiciaria, C. testata, C. 2)op%dota, 

 H. elntata, and a few other common specimens. — Fk.\nk Bouskell, 

 Lansdowne Koad, Stoneygate, Leicester. 



Shericood Forest. — This year again has been a good one for Cosmia 

 paleacea. I began this year rather later than last, on the 29th of 

 August, my companion as last year being the Eev. W. Beecher, 

 of Wellow. Putting up at Edwinstowe, we sugared over the old 

 track, also trying a fresh ground, and were agreeably siirprised to see 

 this insect in considerable numbers, two and three lieing on one tree, 

 and all were in excellent condition, evidently just out. We also took 

 Noctua c-nigrum, and many others. — W. A. B. Ferris, St. Matthew's 

 Vicarage, Nottingham. 



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South London Entomological Society. — SepAemher 14//^, 1893. — 

 Mr. Auld exhibited living larvae of Phorodesma smaragdaria, Fb., also 

 two breeding cages for larva?, as described in the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine for July last by Mr. H. G. Knaggs. Mr. South showed a fine 

 series of Spilosoma lubriripeda vars. zatima, Cr. and radiata, St., a 

 splendid var. of Argynnis euphrosyne, L., taken in Lancashire, a pale 

 var. of Vanessa nrticce, L., from Monmouthshire, a bluish specimen of 

 Procris statices, L., and a number of Zygcena trifolii, Esp., including 

 almost all the known forms. Mr. Tutt mentioned that in a locality 

 in North Kent where all the specimens used to be typical five-spotted 

 trifolii, out of about two hundred specimens of this insect taken last 

 year (1892), five specimens only hacl five spots, the remainder having a 

 tendency to assume a six-spotted form, these in most cases having the 

 sixth spot ill-developed, but in many instances the spots were well 

 marked and similar to those of Z.fiUpendidce, L. ; he also doubted whether 

 the six-spotted specimens captured in INLay, and recorded as fihpendidce 

 were really that species. Mr. Weir remarked that these two species do 

 ocGasionally cross in a state of nature. Mr. Fenn exhibited long series 



