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specimen. The pretty little .S'. reticella has favoured me as usual, but 

 not in such numbers as previously. Sugar is not paying at all just 

 now. How different from last year ! — F. G. Whittle. September 

 21st, 1895. 



Keswick. — The season here has been very good indeed, and I have 

 been able to fill up several gaps in my cabinet. The following are a 

 few of the insects I have captured : Erehin epiphron var. cassiope, 

 Sphinx convolvuli, Cijmatophora fluctuosa, ('. duplnris, Mamestra 

 furva, Caradrina taraxaci, (Jelaena haworthii, Tryphaena fimbria, 

 Noctua glareosa, N. triangulum, N. stiffyiiatica, N. dahlii, N. umbrosa, 

 Dyschorista xuapecta, Xanthia fulvago var. flavescens, Epunda nii/ra, 

 Ajdi'cta prasuia, A. tincia, Hyppa rectilinea, Lithomia solidagijii.s, J'lusia 

 inter rngationis, Hypeiiudi's ((istacstrigalis, Agrotis agatliiiia, Gediiictra 

 papiliunaria, Larentia ficdicata, L. ulivata, Pliihalaptcryx vittata, 

 Atnhlyptilia acanthodactyla, Platytea cerussdltts, besides hosts of common 

 insects. Those who have read my list in the Bcaird (vol. vi., p. 27G) 

 will see that I have taken several things new to the district. Sugar 

 has been my chief mode of collecting, and I started out for the first 

 time on June 19th. Anyone with plenty of time at his disposal might 

 have done well, as insects have been plentiful in all stages. — H. A. 

 Beadle, 14, Station Street, Keswick. September 2Srd, 1895. 



CoxHORNE, NEAR CHELTENHAM. — So far as my experience goes, this 

 season is far superior to the last, in quality as well as quantity. I have 

 taken some very good insects at sugar in my garden, such as : 

 Grammesia trigraiiuiiiva var. bilinea, several in poor condition, which 

 I put aside for eggs, and have larvae feeding now ; Agrotis obscura (1) ; 

 A. sit/ndans (pymphila) ; Noctua depuncta (8) ; N. stigmatica (4) ; 

 Xanthia gilv ago ; X. ocellaris (1) ; Plastenis fiubtiisa ; Epunda lutulenta. 

 One larva of Acronycta alni was found near the house, but un- 

 fortunately died. Of Acidalia inornata one specimen only was taken, 

 in the wood near, which laid eggs and the larvffi are now feeding. In 

 all, I have taken 265 species of " macros" within a short distance of 

 my house. On the 18th I took Noctua .vanthographa and Tryphaena 

 ianthina, in cop. Grapta c-album occasionally comes to sugared trees, 

 but is hard to catch. Ivy is now in bloom in a few places ; from it I 

 take some very nice forms of Anchocelis pistacina, also A. litura, 

 Orrhodia oaccinii, 0. ligida, Scopehmnna mtellitia, Mellinia circellaris, 

 and Xylina ornithopus. Light has been no good at all during the 

 month : I have only taken a few Luperina cespitis, Neuronia popularin, 

 Gortyna ochracea (1), A. pidacina, A. limosa, TapinoHtola fulva, 

 Xanthia fulvago, Thera variata, L'idaria iiiiata. Though I searched 

 dozens of ash trees nearly every evening, from the middle of August to 

 the middle of September, I only took one Cirrhoedia .veiainjielina, and 

 that on September 4th, while out shooting. — (Major) R. B. Robertson. 

 September 25th, 1895. 



Tenby. — I was at Tenby from June 7th to 15th, and took a few 

 Leucania littoralis, Mamestra albicolon, Agrotis ripae, A. corticea, etc., 

 at sugar, as well as Argynnis aglaia (very early for this?), Pararge 

 egeria, Lycaena aegon, etc., by day. — Ibid. 



BoDiAM, Sussex. — The first fortnight in August was very unfavour- 

 able to collectors in our neighbourhood (near Bodiam), rain and cold 

 winds prevailing nearly every day ; so that I saw practically no day- 

 fliers, and sugar was not much patronised by Noctuids. This was 



