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like the earlier. Tuplaoatohi iK'lhiKiiini has been comparatively scarce, and 

 nothing else worth recording seems to have been taken. In this respect, 

 Wicken seems to have shared the fate of the New Forest and South 

 Hants, and in all those places larvte have, since June, been even more 

 scarce than they were last j^ear. Mr. Albert Houghton, who has again 

 taken T. concoJor and A. obiicara, has been a great help to me in many 

 ways, and has always put himself and his apparatus at my disposal, 

 with a readiness which is well known to most frequenter's of Wicken. 

 1 also met with the most uniform kindness and attention at the hands 

 of Mrs. Kobert Aspland and Mr. John Bailey. — J. C. Mobeuly, 'J, 

 Kockstone Place, Southampton. Oct. '2dtli, 1894. 



Tnddciiham. — I was at Tuddenham for a day in August, and found 

 a few Spilodes stictiailis, 0.riiptHuti distans (laetns), a nice lot of Eiijtoen'lia 

 crlijerana, and saw the beautiful Acidalin rnbitjinata in great plenty. — 

 A. Thurnall, 144, Chobham Koad, Stratford Xew Town, E. Oci. 27th, 

 18'J4. 



Freshwater, Isle of Wight. — After having registered nothing but 

 ghastly failures in the collecting line uji to the end of August, and 

 liaA-ing these experiences corroborated by heart-rending letters from my 

 correspondents, telling of how they went forth to catch insects and 

 caught colds, how many insects thej^ had captured to the £ sterling ex- 

 pended (usually three), and other painful particulars, it was indeed a 

 pleasant shock to the system, after a ten hours' railway journey to the 

 Isle of Wight, to be told by my old friend, Mr. Hodges, that things 

 Avere coming to sugar splendidly. These words put new life into me, 

 and already I felt that the sea air was having a beneficial effect u})on 

 my health. Mr. Hodges, with his usual kindness and forethought, 

 knowing that I should not arrive until late, had sugared some trees for 

 me. My wife and a young nephew, the latter suffering from a bad 

 attack of entomological fever, opened the ball by taking amongst other 

 things a pair of Caradrina amhi(jua, and the capture of this rare 

 little Noctua put us in excellent spirits, and at the same time quite 

 on the qui vice for other rarities. We were also stimulated to woik 

 single-handed, and try " fresh fields and pastures new," and with great 

 success, for the following night Mr. Hodges captured a specimen of 

 Lencania aJbipmictn and four Tryphaena siibseqna, a few Aijrotis obelisca, 

 and, with Aporop)hijla australis, common insects in abundance. It seemed 

 quite like old times to have to devote one's whole day to setting, and 

 we blinked like owls when we stole half an hour from our arduous 

 labour to sally forth and stretch our cramjDcd limbs in the briny. I 

 forgot to mention that on the first night a very worn specimen of 

 Tryphaena subsequa was taken, and when about to be reprieved on ac- 

 count of its wretched plight, some one suggested keeping it for ova ; 

 that sealed its fate, and a long vista of bred T. subsequa danced before 

 our eyes. However, as in three days time there were no signs of this 

 pleasant vision being realised, the insect Avas closely examined, and it 

 was found it wasn't " built that Avay," and alas ! its condition was such 

 that " the subsequent proceedings interested him no more." On Sept. 

 16th another Leucania albipimcta turned up ; this time he fell to my 

 sugar, and on the following evening I took my first Caradrina ambigua ; 

 the latter though small is a striking insect at sugar, and could not be 

 mistaken for any other member of the genus excepting C snper.'<tcs. 

 Whilst retuniing acruss the Downs one night, in company with Mr. 



