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late ?), from which I bred a very flue ? ; Etirymene dolobraria, common in one in- 

 closurc, on oak, elsewhere rare ; Ennomos tiliaria, two (I also beat one imago, a t? , 

 out of the bough of a birch) ; E. erosaria, two ; Boarmia rohoraria, by no means 

 uncommon in the inclosure above-mentioned, not so common in other localities ; B. 

 consortaria, not rare : one ^ imago emerged at the end of September ; Cidaria 

 psiHacata, a few on oak ; Dicranura furcula, two ; Notodonta dictaoides, very 

 scarce : I only took two, both ichneumoned ; N. dromedarins, not common ; iV. 

 Chaonia and dodonwa (the latter miich scarcer than it was last season) ; Dlphthera 

 Orion. The larvte of this beautiful Noctua were not nearly so common as the abun- 

 dance of t he imago during June led us to hope they would be. Up to the 15th of 

 August I had only taken about a dozen. I then discovered the inclosure named 

 above, and here they were not rare, as I beat twenty in two days (sixteen on the last 

 day — the largest number, I believe, taken in one day by any collector hi the forest). 

 We also took many other species, some of wliich we do not yet know. As to the 

 images, I captured very few worth naming, as the weather was very bad, and the 

 insects scarce, I did not do much day-work, devoting myself almost entirely to 

 larva-coUecting ; indeed, besides the E. tiliaria ah-eady recorded, I only captured 

 one fine ? Demas coryli (which laid me a large batch of ova), one ? Flaiypieryx 

 lacertula (which also favoured me with eggs), and one P. miyuicula. Sugaring was 

 not much more productive. The only captures by its means worth noticing were : — 

 Cidaria immanala (a nice series) ; Cerigo Cytherea (not so common as usual) ; Agro- 

 tis pula, two ; TryphcBna interjeda, two; and Noctita rhomboidea (common, but 

 mostly worn. I obtained a number of ova from some injured females). 



Catocala promissa and C. sponsa were not common. Of the latter I managed, 

 after nmch trouble, to obtain a few ova. I kept the ? for a week before she began 

 to lay, and on opening her body after death discovered a number of ova still in tho 

 ovary.— B. Lockter, Euston Eoad, N.W. : October \2th, 187'i. 



An entomological scrap. — To-day, while seated in one of the city dining-rooms, 

 I got into conversation with my vis-a-vis, a middle-aged gentleman, apparently very 

 intelligent and of good education. Suddenly his attention was attracted by several 

 lively examples of the little Ilouse-Ant {Diplorhoptrum domesticum) nmning about 

 on the table-cloth. He asked me what they were. I rephed " Ants." The gentle- 

 man considered for a moment, and then made the profound remark : " I should have 

 " thought they tooitld have done having yotmg ones at this time of year." Could any- 

 thing demonstrate more forcibly the necessity for clementarj- Natural Ilislorj- forming 

 part of our educational system ? — R. MoLaciilan, Lewisham : 18^/i Nov., 1874. 



Insects Auroad ; being a popular account of Foreign Insects, their structure, 

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