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Attraction of moths. — A query. — There is a small outhouse 

 covered with ivy which stands close here, and I have noticed for the 

 past fortnight or more, numhers of Tri/phacna orhona every night 

 about dark, flying round and alighting upon the ivy leaves. They re- 

 main quite passive, and in a little time become stupefied — similar to 

 insects at sugar. On an average, I have seen more than a score of 

 these moths each night, resting on the leaves, also a few 2\ janthina. 

 Can any of your readers inform me what attraction ivy has at this 

 time of the year ? and why these insects should become stupefied, so 

 that they fall off the leaves at the least shake ? There is some honey- 

 suckle and convolvulus intertwined with the ivy growing over the 

 house referred to, but the bloom on the former was over some weeks ago. 

 Sugar has been useless here throughout July, and even up to the pre- 

 sent time fails to prove attractive. Kagwort also has been a failure 

 up to the time of writing. — H. Shortridge Clarke, F.E.S., Sulby 

 Parsonage, Lazayre, Isle of Man. Aw/iist 15th, 1896. 



Cyaniris argiolus in London. — Is (Jijaniris ( Lycaena ) an/itiliis 

 known as a Lnndon insect ? On July 28th or 29th I saw a good 

 example sitting on the pavement in the Wellington Road, about 200 

 yards from St. John's Wood Station. If it is an uncommon visitor, 

 I thought you might like a note of it for the lieconl. — W. F. H. 

 Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S., 48, Wimpolc Street, W. Am/itst 

 Uth, 1896. 



Lyc^na arion in the Cotswolds. — This species was not at all rare 

 in the " Cotswolds " this year. — ^Ernest W. W. Bowell, 70, Sinclair 

 Road, West Kensington Park, S.W. 



"Micros" of a Kentish wood. — Much as one can appreciate our 

 Epping Forest, as a change from town life, it cannot compare with 

 your Kentish wood ; such was my impression, when, in May last, I 

 stayed some time in the neighbourhood of the Blean Woods, where 

 the fauna, the clean and sweet flora, the fresh air, etc., gave a natural 

 beauty to the whole, which one would be only too glad to find in our 

 local forest. What little collecting I was able to manage, was done 

 mainly in the rides by beating, and the short list of " micros" may 

 be of interest. Cramlms pratdlus, Taytiix ininistrana, Penthina picana, 

 lioxana arcnana, EpiiippipJiora scutulana, Xanthusetia Itainana, Adela 

 (hycerdla, A. viridella, Gelechia aledla, Gracilaria swederella, Elachista 

 ci/(/nipc'nndla, lucurcana pradatdla , Agrotera nemoralia, liotys fiiscalis, 

 Herbida ccspitalis, and Leioptilus tcpliradavtylu^. — Ambrose Quail. 



Excursion to Tunbridge Wells. — On August 3rd, 1896, the 

 members of the North London Natural History Society made an ex- 

 cursion to Tunbridge Wells, which was kindly conducted by Mr. 

 George Abbott, M.R.C.S., secretary of the S.E. Union of Scientific 

 Societies. Botany and geology occupied the greater part of the day, 

 and very few lepidoptera were flying, the commonest species being 

 Pnlyommatiis irarm and Parcmn' mcyacra. Near the High Rocks Hotel, 

 however, a good specimen of Zuvosovia porata fell to the net of Mr. 

 Bishop, and an unusually finely marked example of Astlitua candidata 

 to Mr. Fuller. Shortly afterwards Mr. Bishop captured another 

 Acidalia, which no one of the party was able to certainly name, but 

 which it was thought might be a nice var. of A. avermta. Coming 

 out on a breezy heath towards Broadwater Forest, it was discovered 

 that a few specimens of Plchdm aeyun were flying among the innu- 



