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have been plentiful at sugar (especially in August), in many places in 

 the north of England and Scotland. One night at Scarborough, I 

 should think there were 400 or 500 on the sugar, but nearly all were 

 Noctua xanthographa, Tryphaena pronuhn, and Xylophnsia poli/odon. 

 LarviB at the end of August were fairly abundant at Seamer Moor, 

 and other places near that locality. The results of the little collecting 

 I have done here during the year have been exceedingly poor. — T. 

 Maddison, South Bailey, Durham. Oct. 12th, 1895. 



Leigh and Southend. — I went to Leigh on May 31st to get 

 Epichnopteryx reticella, and a few larvffi of I'lim/a.s birddla 

 on the cock's foot grass. Of the latter I only got one. A good 

 many were observed last year, but only one moth was bred. 

 Hadena dissimilis (suasa) must have occurred in great numbers 

 on the marshes ; the numerous egg-clusters were unmistakable 

 evidence of this. The larvffi obtained fed up very quickly, and 

 two moths appeared in August. I think it is usual for one or two 

 individuals of a brood to appear in August, the rest lying over until 

 the following June. The larvse of Hyponomeuia padellus almost 

 stripped our hedges this season. Towards the end of June, when on 

 the look-out for larvae of Clisiocampa castrensis, I took half-a-dozen 

 Phorode»ma smaragdaria — the first time I have taken the moth at 

 large. In July I took, at Canvey and Pitsea, a few Caioptria citrana, 

 Or ambus selaselhis and Chilo phragmitellus (one only) ; at Southend 

 at sugar, a few nice Cerostoma vittella and Ceratophora rufescens, 

 I also found one or two Poecilia albiceps on fences. In August, 

 Gatoptria candidulana was plentiful among its food-plant on the 

 river wall, and Agrotis vestigialis occurred near Shoebury. On one 

 occasion I found a specimen of Tortrix viridana on a salt-marsh near 

 Shoeburyness. Mr. Button, who made so many extraordinary cap- 

 tures on our Essex mud flats, has reported T. viridana as common at 

 sugar on an Essex marsh [vide. Eutom., vol. iv., p. 115). — F. G. 

 Whittle, 3, Marine Avenue, Southend. Oct. 21st, 1895. 



TuNBRiDGE Wells. — I have not had a good season. Sugar has 

 been a failure, so far as good insects are concerned. I took several 

 Cymatophora fluctuom at lamps here. Ancliocelis lunom has been 

 swarming at sugar this summer. — R, A. Dallas Beeching, F.E.S., 24, 

 St. James' Road, Tunbridge Wells. October 8tJi, 1895. 



Clapton. — I have bred a remarkably fine series of Ajiainea 

 ophiogranDjia from Clapton larvae. Anchocelis lunom was very abundant 

 last month in the garden, and Xanthia i/ilrago fairly common. — F. J. 

 Hanbury, F.L.S., Stainforth House, Upper Clapton. Oct. dtJi, 1895. 



Glasgow. — I have been after rhihalaptery.v lapidata again this 

 season, but have found it very scarce. — J. J. F. X. King, F.E.S., 

 Glasgow. 



:i^OTES ON LARViE, &c. 



Food-plant of Hypenodes albistrigalis — a query. — Can any- 

 one tell me if the food-plant of Hypenodes albistrigalis is known on 

 the Continent ?— W. S. Riding, M.D. Sept. 5th, "1895. 



On the management of lakv^ during hybernation. — I would 

 suggest, in reply to Mrs. Twopenny's question, a large roomy flower- 

 pot with a plant or two of chickweed growing in it, and about four 



