80 f^pi"''' 



majority of the examples of exifjua were not quite perfect ; biit some, 

 on the other hand, were large and in fine condition. In 1901 the species 

 did not turn up, and in 1902 only one worn female was seen. The year 

 1903 is described in our Diarj' as prohahly the worst autumn for col- 

 lecting ever experienced. Heavy winds and pouring rain succeeded each 

 other in monotonous procession. We did not meet with exiyna again 

 until 1906, when it turned up in numbers that fairly staggered us. If 

 1900 had been a good year for it, 190G was a far lietter one. It a])- 

 peared, too, very .suddenh% as up to Septeml)er 3rd not a .specimen had 

 been seen. Two nights later no less than thirty-two were taken, and 

 this number was exceeded afterwards, exigva continuing very much in 

 evidence until tlic middle of October. We have no record for 1907 or 

 19()S. Some friends have been very successful in breeding it from ova 

 deposited by captured females, and have obtained a second and, I rather 

 think, even a third genei'ation, which, liowever, showed signs of de- 

 generation. 



Stilbia anomala occurred, but very locally, having been taken fairly 

 commonly only in one spot on the wing at dusk and also at sugar. I 

 have seen it at rest, ]>robably freshly emerged. Imnging to the wires of u 

 fence upon which we used to put our sugai'. 



All attempts to find Helioplwhiia liispiduR failed, though this 

 beautiful, insect occurred plentifully a few miles away, and I have l>r(Hl 

 many of them from larvae talcen in the latter locality. 



JTrliollnn iiclt'Kjfra. — Though I suppose this would be considered a 

 more plentiful insect than li. armigern, we never met with it in any 

 stage until August 1897, when I captured a beautiful and freshly 

 emerged specimen at sugared tlowers of Hvdheclcia in my garden, on a 

 rather cold and brilliantly clear night. The year 1906 turned out to be 

 a great pelf i(j era yuciv. We started by talcing them at flowers of Sileiie 

 maritima on May 31st whilst after Dcilepliila livornica,oi wdiich latter 

 we were fortunate in getting two that evening and several more during 

 the next few days. Early in Jul}' we found numbers oi pelti(/era larvae 

 on plants of rest-harrow growing on the coast ; these fed up and began 

 emerging on August lltli. Towards the end oi the month peltigeni 

 came freely to sugar and we took our last specimen on October 3rd, — 

 the last for the year and also the last we saw, as 1 can find no note of 

 its having occurred with us since. 



R. armifjern is far more constant in om- neighbourhood than the 

 preceding species though never numerous. First taken at the end of 

 August, 1S98. In September the year following I got as many as five 

 in a single evening — quite my record! In 1900 a few. Six in 1901. 



