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time put an end to sugaring expeditions. — J. Clarke, Reading. 

 October, 1897. 



Habit of Apatura ilia. — 1 find that Apatura ilia comes to sugar, 

 also that it flies low, and comes down in the early morning, from 8 to 

 10 a.m., and not towards 4 p.m., as Kane says. — E. S. Harrison. 



Capture of Deilephila galiinear Honiton. — I captured a specimen 

 of this species during the first week of August, on either the 3rd, 4th 

 or 5th, at dusk, hovering over a flower of the tobacco plant (XicoUana 

 afjinis), in the garden of Stockland Vicarage, near Honiton, Devon. — 

 F. S. Dawe, B.Sc, 18, Walham Grove, Fulham, S.W. Oct. lOth, 1897. 



Dasypolia templi at Bradford. — My brother sent me some fine 

 specimens of Do>i)/polia templi, captured on October 28th, on gas lamps. 

 The specimens were posted to me, when freshly killed, in a zinc box ; they 

 carry well in this way, and arrive in fine condition for setting. — J. A. 

 Butterfield, B.Sc, 85, Wrottesley Road, Plumstead, S.E. 



Note on Drepana binaria. — The present season has afibrded a good 

 illustration of how some species appear at unexpected places, if 

 specially sought for. D. binaria has only been occasionally taken in 

 this district in two or three distant localities. The early days of 

 October yielding but little "sport" in winged captures, I decided 

 upon making a larval raid upon the oaks within easy reach. The 

 result has been a decided surprise. In each of five widely separated 

 localities on the south, east, and west side of Gloucester, which I 

 worked, the larvfe of D. binaria tumbled into the umbrella, not, it is 

 true, in any great numbers, but the total yield was quite satisfactory, not 

 so much on account of the insects themselves, as their afibrding a 

 demonstration of the wide distribution of the species in districts 

 hitherto not known to supply it. It seems likely that if the search for 

 the larvae had been commenced earlier, say in September, the number 

 of captures of desirable species would have been increased. We know 

 that larva-searching is constantly yielding species that are seldom or 

 never met with on the wing ; and doubtless this work would prove 

 much more productive if the upper branches of trees could be 

 conveniently got at. Could not collectors who have facilities for 

 working out this " higher branch " of our work, give us the result of 

 their experience regarding it, and add materially to our knoAvledge ? 

 Are there not many " high-flyers " besides that protean beauty, 

 Hi/psipetes sordidata, that love to feed as high as they fly, and might 

 not many discoveries be made by judicious tree-climbing by ladders, 

 etc., and the adoption of other new modes of capture? — J. Merrin, 2, 

 Oakleigh Villas, Gloucester. 



Chortodes morrisii (bondii). — This species occurs not uncommonly 

 at CharmoKth. Half my series I took there. — A. B. Farn, F.E.S., 

 Mt. Nod, Greenhithe. [This is an important note from the point of 

 view that the original specimens of C. morridi (bondii) were captured 

 at Charmouth, and there has recently been an attempt to show that 

 0. morrisii of Charmouth is not identical with C. bondii from Folke- 

 stone. — Ed.] 



A NEW locality for Lyc.ena arion. — It will interest lepidopterists 

 to hear that, whilst on a wandering tour in Devonshire, at the end of 

 last July, I came across this species in a new locality. The specimens 

 were, as may be supposed from the date, very much worn, but had 

 evidently been fairly numerous. The locality is not likely to be 

 visited by entomologists, or even tourists, at the period of the year 



