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The following incidental notes may be interesting. Mr. Beadle 

 writes : — "In going through my A", daldii I have classified them as 

 nearly as possible, some are almost intermediate. In the markings I 

 find that out of the 9 dark females, 4 have the reniform filled in with 

 pale colour, and 2 of these have a distinct irregular line of the same 

 pale colour near the hind margin of the wing." Mr. Bush writes :^ 

 " I find that of the specimens taken here I have none distinctly 

 chestnut, but still, two females and four males are very light and 

 mottled. I have also 7 specimens taken at New Holland in 

 Lincolnshire, 4 males and 3 females, which I find are all dark 

 brown." Mr. Moberly writes : — " I have taken N. daldii not 

 infrequently at sugar in woods in Hampshire, and, so far as I can see, 

 none of those I have taken myself vary at all from the chestnut- 

 coloured male and purplish or reddish female. The only peculiar 

 specimen which I have is a female, of a pale, liut rather warm- 

 coloured brown." 



I should be glad of any further tabulated information on these 

 forms, with general notes to follow. — J. W. Tutt. 



Variation of Asteroscopus sphinx. — The moths which I capture 

 are usually grey, varying from light to dark, and occasionally, when 

 freshly killed, looking as though dusted over with flour. It is, how- 

 ever, not uncommon for all the grey to be replaced by a more or less 

 ochreous tint.— E. F. Studd, M.A., B.C.L., F.E.S., Oxton. Decem- 

 ber, 1895. 



:f^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Winter Notes. — ■Hybernia defuliaria is very plentiful just now, 

 H. rupicapraria and H. leueophaearia were first taken on the 18th 

 inst.— E. P. Studd, M.A., B.C.L., F.E.S., Oxton. Jannan/ 28tli, 

 1896. 



Crymodes exulis var. assimilis in Aberdeenshirk. — I caught a 

 specimen of the Rannoch form of Cri/modes ej'ulis, at sugar, in a 

 wood near this place in the beginning of August. I should be very 

 glad if anyone can tell me if it comes to light, or which is the best 

 way to capture the species. — A. E. Cannon, Mannofield, Aberdeen. 

 Jail ua 11/, 1896. 



Agrotis luceunea not an insect that comes to sugar. — I notice 

 that Ai/mtis liurruea is mentioned as not coming much to sugar in the 

 neighbourhood of Aberdeen. The species has the same habits here. 

 Though it is usually common, and I have taken many at flowers, I 

 have taken none at sugar, with one or two doubtful exceptions, where 



