26 THE entomologist's record. 



the New Forest, but only sugared once, and got three Hadena conti(iuo and 

 one $ Moiiia orion. I kept the latter for ova but she died without laying. 

 From .June 22nd to July 12th I was in Cornwall, where I had the 

 pleasure of seeing Lycaena avion flying for the first time. I got a fine 

 series, but was told that it was not nearly so numerous as in some 

 previous years. During this period the weather was fairly fine 

 though some of the nights were very cold, and several times a 

 fire was very comfortable, indeed almost necessary. Up to July 

 sugar was fairly attractive, among the insects attracted being 

 Boarmia repandata in numbers, and with them some fine ab. 

 conreraaHa, one Acronicta leporina, a few Ai/rotis corticea, two or three 

 Erastn'a fiisciila, one Heliot/iis marijinatufi, Tliijatira batix, (innop/iora 

 derasa, and other common insects. After July began, the attraction 

 failed, and hardly anything came. Dusking produced two or three 

 ]\[acaria alteniata and Asthena sylrata, and a good many Knniiele^ia 

 aifinitata. Ci/iiiatophora diipUnis in its south county whitish form was 

 very common. In butterflies, besides J.i/cacna aritm, were a few 

 Ariji/miis adippe, several A. aylaia, and a great number of Hipjiarcliia 

 sciiii'lt', and Melananiia ijalatea. Iheiithis seleni' was common. 

 Mi'litaea aiirinia and Iji-ptidia sinapis very occasional. One or two 

 very handsome Si/riclithus nialrae ab. taras were taken. On July 12th 

 I returned to the New Forest and tried sugar once, about the 16th, on 

 a warm, cloudy, nice-seeming night with a most disheartening 

 result. The only insect that came to the sugar being one Hydro- 

 cavipa nyiiijdiacalis — not a single Noctuid. Among the butterflies 

 in the daytime, although the weather was very uncertain, things 

 were better. Pleheins cwjon and Dryas pajdiia swarmed. There were 

 a good many Liinenitis sybilla and Artiynnia adijipe, and plenty of 

 Kpincpliele tit/i(iitiis, K. janira, and Knodia /lyjwraHt/iKs, but except var. 

 rab'sina, I saw no varieties or aberrations of any species, though 

 keeping a very sharp look out. One day I saw three Apatnra iris, one 

 of Avhich sat on the ground within two yards of me, but when I tried 

 to catch it, it pleaded successfully a previous engagement. It was a 

 female, but on another day I got a nice male which an old woman 

 had caught in her hands sitting on a flower in her garden, and which, 

 strange to say, she had but slightly damaged. Of moths I picked up 

 only one black Gnophos ohsrniaria, one Hyria untricata, three or four 

 Kiipistcria iiiiirinata and Pyroiista purpKralis. At the end of July I 

 returned here, and cannot say that I had such good fortune at sugar 

 as Mr. Day describes. I sugared once or twice with very poor results, 

 a few (frtliiisia siispcvta and Xorttia daJdii being the chief results. The 

 commonest species were scarce, and many patches of sugar were 

 without an occupant at all. Owing to the unsatisfactory weather 

 towards the end of August, light was very unsuccessful, and there was 

 always a gale blowing. Two Lnpi'rina rt'sjiitis and two ( 'lioraeax 

 !pr(nii)ns, with about a dozen X(jctiia iiinbrosa, being the only result of 

 several nights' work. Even Xeiironia papillaris was very scarce, and 

 Trirhiura crataeyi did not appear. On September 1st I tried sugar 

 in the woods ; moths came to the sugar in great numbers, but all of 

 one species, Cosmia trape::i7ia, excepting three or four Xoctua dahlii. 

 X. dahlii svas also attracted to the ling. I never saw so many ('. 

 trape::ina here before. In most seasons an average of twenty in an 

 evening would be unusually high, and what a date ! a full month 



