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(York) writes on October 1st : — " I am sorry to join the chorus of 

 lamentation over the badness of the season. On the 2nd July I had a 

 day at Sledmere Woods on the Yorkshire Wolds, but everything seemed 

 scarce. Asthena blomeri and Vennsia cambricaria, generally so plentiful, 

 were very scarce. I took a nice series of Melanthia alhicHlaia and a 

 few fine Macan'a liturata, also some fine Lycaenn medon, an insect new 

 to me in that district. During the first fortnight in July I worked 

 Scarborough and district with little success. Mr. Head of that town, 

 and I sugared the trees and fences near the Castle, but, with the 

 exception of a fine series of Mamestra fnrva, we boxed nothing. Day- 

 work on the cliflfs near Cay ton Bay, to the south of Scarborougli, 

 yielded Enholia hipnnctaria in numbers, but little else. I found 

 the local Ejmne mi^pertnria in fair numbers during the first days of 

 August at Sandburn, the females putting in an appearance on one 

 evening only ; as a rule, the latter are very rarely met with at rest, and 

 are still rarer on the wing, and a collector may not take a single one 

 for nights yet get the males in plenty. Curiously the few larvas 

 I swept this year yielded female moths in every case ! The autumn 

 reports about larva? appear very favourable. I have taken Smerlathus 

 ocellatus, which, on isolated sallows on Strensall Common, were easily 

 seen and picked off ; S.pojmli, Spilosomafniiginosa, Dasi/chira piidibnnda , 

 Bombyx ruhi, Engonia tiliaria, Amphidasi/s bcUdaria (common), Dicrannra 

 furcula, Clostera reelusa (in plenty), Notodonta camelina, N. dictaea, N'. 

 didaeoideti, N. dromedarms,N. ziezac, Acroni/cta leporina, A. ineni/<iiifh/dix, 



ifec." Mr. Fenn (Lee) writes on October 2ad : — " I have lately 



been staying at Deal, and although day-work was useless I had a fair 

 amount of success at sugar. Excej^t on one night, the wind blew hard 

 from the north-east, but it was not particularly cold and the dew was 

 usually very heavy. The most sheltered spots were the most produc- 

 tive, but there was so little on the wing that 1 soon discarded my net. 

 I captured the following: — Aporophyla anstralis, common, but getting 

 worn at the time I left ; Anchocelis hinosa, common, but rather worn ; 

 A.pistacina, just out and not scarce ; Xanthia fnli-ago (cerago), just out, 

 one or two only ; Mellinia circellaris, common and very fine ; Agrotis 

 tritici, common but worn ; A. vestigialis, a few in good condition ; 

 A. puta, a few fair; A. segetimi, very fine; A. ypsilon (snffusa), very 

 fine ; Leiicania pollens, one or two only ; Hydroecia nictitans, one just 

 out ; Xylophasia monoglypha, a few worn ; Caradrina cubicidaris, a few 

 fine ; Noctna c-nigrma, common and fine ; N. xantJiographa, common 

 and very worn; A. tragopogoms, one; Eptinda lichenea, one of the dark 

 type form ; E. hdnlenta, a few, some fine pale forms ; Phtogophora 

 meticnlosa, common and fine ; Calocampa vetusta, a few fine ; Xylina 

 soda, one fine ; Plnsia gamma, very common at sugar, not merely 

 flying round but imbibing freely ; Hypena rostralis, one. Larva? of 

 Bombyx ruhi, nearly full-fed, abundant ; but it was too late for 



Chaerocampa elpenor." Mr. N. M. Richardson (Weymouth) writes 



on October 11th : — " I have had some very bad nights at Portland lately. 

 The autumn species, Heliophobus hiqyidnti, Epiinda lichenea, AncJiocelis 

 lunosa, Luperina cespitis, L. tedacea, Aporophyla australis, &c. seem to 



be late in their appearance, and scarce." Mr. Duncan (Linlithgow) 



writes on October 13th : — " The weather has been splendid here for 

 two m- tho, and autumn insects are pretty numerous. Dasypolia templi is 

 appearing in moderate numbers at light." Mr. J. Finlay (Morpeth) 



