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recognised as a " buflf-tip." When wo returned a little after 9 p.m. the moth was 

 still there, and, at the request of my friend, I " swarmed " the post, and brought 

 the insect (at?) down captive. Of course it is to the ijeculiarly equable autumn 

 weather which we have had that the singularly late appearance of this specimen is 

 due. I am reminded, that while at Folkestone in the middle of July this year, 

 Mr. Wright and I found three batches of bucephala larva) respectively just hatched, 

 one-thu-d fed, and full fed : and about the end of July I took the perfect insect. I 

 also met with two or three s2iocimons of the imago at Hampstead early in Juno of 

 the present year. — H. G. Knaggs, Kentish Town, October I'dth, 1865. 



Notes on sallow-bloom-frequenting insects. — Sallows, as most people will recollect, 

 were very late in blooming last spring. The cold weather kept them back until the 

 beginning of April ; and it was not till about the 6th of that month that they were 

 sufficiently out, even in the warmer woods here, to make it worth while to examine 

 them. 



On the evening of that day, I went with a friend into a wood, where we thought 

 something might be done. 



Tliat no chance might be lost, I sugared a line of trees, and then, as most of the 

 blooming sallows were in awkward places for examination, we cut some branches, and 

 planted them along the wood-paths and open places. 



As soon as it was dark we lighted up and went to work, and my friend soon 

 commenced the evening's sport by taking Hoporina croceago. In a few minutes, to 

 my great joy as well as astonislunent, I took the first Tceniocampa miniosa I ever saw 

 alive ; a second soon followed, and then two croceago. In the meantime Tcvniocampa 

 munda turned up here and there, in company with numbers of T. gothica, stahilis, 

 and cruda. There were also a few T. instabilis and Anticlea iadiata, and very nearly 

 all were upon the planted branches of sallow. The growing bushes wei-e comparatively 

 deserted, and the sugar produced nothing but four T. munda. On our way home we 

 tried other sallows, and from one bush at the corner of a wood obtained thirteen 21 

 munda, so that we had over thirty specimens of that species that evening. 



The next evening I went again and re-planted the sallow branches, which I had 

 stuck into a little stream to keep fresh, and also some fresh cut ones j but, instead of 

 the cool west wind that had blown the evening before, the night was still and hot, 

 and the moths had something else to do, probably, than feed, for I do not think I saw 

 one-tenth of the number that were to be found the night before. However, I met with 

 another T. miniosa, as well as H. croceago, and a few munda. Ta'niocampa rubri- 

 cosa and gracilis also made their appearance this evening ; and Xylocampa lilhorkiza, 

 which had been out several days, came to the sallows, at which it had not been seen 

 the evening before. I was particularly struck on this occasion with the abundance of 

 Hibernia progemmaria and Pterophorus pterodactylus on the planted sallows, and am 

 led to think that the worst evenings for Tceniocampce are those most favoured by these 

 two species, as well as lilhorhiza. 



A few evenings after, my friend and I tried the same plan in another wood, and 

 took our first Tomiocampa leucographa and one vdniosa; but the glut had gone by, 

 and, from this time forward, the sallows were deserted, or produced nothing better 

 than a chance TracfiLva piniperda or T. instabilis ^nd rubricosa. 



I have no doubt that when the sallow blossoms have grown slowly through cold 



