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Lepidopteua in the Cheltenham distkiot. — I am afraid this will 

 be a very poor list of insects that occur in this neighl)ourhoo(l, but my 

 experience of the past season has been most disheartening ; sugar and 

 larva-beating have been absolutely useless ; light was very little better, 

 though I lit my moth-trap every favourable night ; ivy and sallow 

 produced about a couple of dozen insects all told ; the majority of those 

 I did take were captured within a mile or two of my house, which is 

 about 2| miles from Cheltenham along the London road. Phi(/ah'a 

 pedaria was the first to turn up, this came to my study window on 

 Feb. 9th. I then started my moth-trap, but took nothing till the 28tli, 

 when Htjhcraia rupicapraria, H. maryinaria and Autidea hadiaUi put in 

 an appearance, a veiy earl}'- date for the last-named. On the 15th of 

 the same month I took H. lencophearia at rest, and Anisopteryx aescn- 

 larin ; on the following day, while searching for pupaj on a large 

 poplar near the house, I came across empty cocoons of Dicranura vintda, 

 D. bifida and Poecilocampa popidi. During March I took, besides those 

 already mentioned, Taeniocampa munda and Scopelosoma satelUtia on 

 the 7th ; Orrhodia vaccinii and 0. lujida on the 9th ; T. yothica, T. 

 stahilis and T. pidverulenia on the 13th ; T. instabilis and Xylina rhizo- 

 litha on the 19th, all at sallow. On the 30th, I captured a ? GrujAa 

 c-album in the garden, and placed her in a glass filter with a gauze 

 covering, and with some nettle inside to try and induce her to lay ; 

 during the first week of April she deposited some thirt}^ eggs on the 

 upper surface of the leaves and on the gauze ; these hatched in due course, 

 the young larvae were sleeved on a red currant tree, and produced 

 imagines in July ; some of these had undersides of dark brown, whilst 

 others were beautifully mottled with lighter brown and metallic green. 

 In April, I worked the sallows every favourable night and took, be- 

 sides the common frequenters, a single specimen each of Pachnobia 

 leiicographa, T. gracilis and P. rubricosa. My moth-trap produced a few 

 Larentia midtistrigaria, A. badiata, A. nigrofasciaria, Eucosmia certata 

 Selenia bilnnaria, Triphosa dubitata and Cidaria suffumata. Hunting by 

 day, I took Gonepteryx rhamni, Pieris rapae, Vanessa urticae and G. 

 c-album ; also larvae of Mdlinia circcllaris, Xanthia fulvago, X. Jiava(/o and 

 Eupithecia temviata in catkins. During May I bred Amphidasys betularia, 

 Odontopera bidentata and Sineriiithns tiliae from dug pupa3, and captured 

 Eupithecia subnotata, Melanippe Jlnctuata, M. sociata, Coremia designata, C. 

 ferrugata, C. unidentata, Caberapusaria, Henieropliila abrnptaria, Eupithecia 

 vulgata, Ellopia fasciuria and Spdosoiiia menihastri by means of the 

 moth-trap ; sugar only j^i'odaced Gonoptcra libatrix and Brotolomia 

 meticulosa, while Pieris napi, Argynnis euphrosyne, Pyrgus mahae, Niso- 

 niades tages, Coenonympha pamphilus, Eiuaturga atomaria, Acidalia remu- 

 tata, Abraxas sylvata, LotnaKpilis marginata, Eupithecia abbreviata, Epione 

 advenaria, Venilia maculata, Enclidia mi, Herbnla cespitaiis, Pyrausta 

 purjjuralis and Ennychia auguinalis were obtained during the day, as 

 also larvae of Diloba caendeocephala and Porthesia similis, and a colony 

 of thousands of Nudaria muaduna feeding on liclien on beech trees and 

 stone walls. These larvae were identified by Dr. Chapman. I was away 

 the whole of June and best part of July at Milford Haven, where I had 

 very little time for entomology, but saw Colias ednsa and var. helice there 

 on the cliffs. During tlie latter part of July 1 was at home and took or 

 bred Cabera exantheiaaria, Phahra buccphala, G. c-album, Miami strigilis 

 Hejnalus humuli, Larentia didymata, Hypsipetes sordidata, Boarmia repan- 



