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My friend was cxtremeh" fond of workiny tlic street-lamps, and on 

 suitable nights, if not otherwise engaged, either he or 1 generally took a 

 stroll round at about 10 p.m. with a light, long-handled net and a supply 

 of boxes. We had a particular " beat," which experience had shown us 

 to be profitable, and the list of moths taken in this way w^ould be a long 

 one, comprising probably not les.s than 200 species, some of them being 

 far from common. I have actual records of over 170, but there 

 are many omissions, especially amongst the commoner species and 

 Eupitheciae. 



I suppose that Cainptor/rainjiia ^flufi((((( was one of our "• plums," 

 and, though not constant, the late autumn brood put in an ajjpearance 

 most years. A specially good year ioi'Jlavlafa was 1899, when we took 

 some twenty specimens, the best night being November 23rd, which I 

 remember very well as being still, warm, and as black as ink. I boxed 

 six fiiiviata that night — \ 2 ^nd 2 6 , the former all being taken, 

 curiously enough, on one lamp in a public jjark. The females were 

 kept — ^and sacrificed — for ova, of which we got a good supply, the 

 resulting larvae being reared then, as on other occasions, without 

 difficult}'. Besides fluviata, the following may be worth recording, 

 and it is interesting to note that they w^ei'e mostly taken within a 

 radius of half-a-mile from our house : — 



Acherontia atropos, GJioerocampa elpenor, C. porcellus, Amphi- 

 dasis prodromaria, A. hetularia. Cymatophora rldens, l^euria, sapo- 

 tiariae, Caradriiia amhigua. Donas coryli, Epuuda nigra, Acronycta 

 ligustri, Dasypol'm teinpli, Heliotliis peltigera, Laphygma exigua, 

 Folia flacicincta, Cosmia diffinis, Liparis chrysorrlioea, L. moiiaclw, 

 Oonopliora derasa, Dicranwra viniola, Calamia littosa, Lohopliora 

 oiretata^ Galligenia miniata, Lifhosia caniola, L. griseola (in great 

 profusion), i. griseola, var. stramineola, Macaria notafa, EUopia 

 fasciaria, Pericallia syringaria, Ennonios fuscantaria, Anticlea 

 sinuata, Platypteryx liamula, Aporophyla australis, Epione apiciaria, 

 Geometra papilionaria, Gorycia taminata, Numeria pulveraria. 



We devoted a great deal of time to sugaring at all seasons of the 

 year save winter itself, and, taken all round, we found it probably 

 the most profitable means of collecting. Given average fair weather, 

 I should say that in our district the month of September is the best of 

 the twelve for this purpose, and anybody visiting Devon for, say, an 

 entomological holiday, covild hardly do better than select the last week 

 in August and the entire month of September, except, of course, for 

 certain species occurring earlier in the year. The results of our sugaring 



