ioa:aATio:y of moths. 



Mr, Gratke reports that at He3%olazid, on ike night from August 



6xij to TtK 18S3. idiid S.E.. tiere was a ; - ' " " -" ." - of tlie 



silTer-gamiim mott {Blusia gamma)^ "but r : : : ^ "^th tbe 



perfect "" snow-stoTms " cjf tins moti wMeli paiesed in the autumn of 

 1S5j2, all going west. 



On Oetol)eT lltli, wind S.S.W., ilieTe wi^t ^ .^. ^ r ii^^Li cf Kyher-". \j 

 d^oliaria, TrrJTed with Sybemia awrantiaria ; and al&o during : r > 

 nights of the last w€^i in Oetol>er repeated :flightF of tluese moths 



Witli referenoe to th- :" - - " -'rlit of Fl-mia - - ■• - ' ?ross He^^- : - 

 la2Dd in 1882, a noti<-e of -s^ ^ ^ ared iu the re ;. - 1 e Mi grar' : _ 



cf Birds, 1882, p. 47, Mr. CharJes Williams, at iL 1 _ • 



lionse, dS Guemser, states tliat :'' - - were oDi-rr^ei :: : 

 June or Julj- 



Mr. James WaSsla, from tlje Fastnet B.oet lighthouse, eii" 



of lards from the X.E-- hut what was n3c«t remarkable was the 

 ef large moths, wMeh he tan only ecanpare t<o a BeaTT fall of =:- : 



Oreal Cots, XnoBlnr, liij?:-- 



[These notes, sre of ertreme iTJterest. Mr. Cordesam is fa*- - 

 weH-irjown) Seerelary <if a ComxBittee appmoted bf i3ie Biiimtk Ab^ - 



ciatacm for the j^ - , . - . 



(undtsr offirial Biki. : . . .: .:_: _^^.-. ... ,: ..... 



tiie seroees of the rarions lighthouse ieepere a^re largely c 



We thini it - . '-at entomdl^fgy (z& well as omiti ' _'• 



fihoBld be re p: v-^-. ^. ...... . . - -. ^- -~^e. The -- - — • - - - 



fj-om sTstematie c^hserrat: . -riticT^ i*. 



obfc«rved at iightJiouses. 

 BcSeiatifie raSne- — Eds." 



BE^CBipnojr or the laeta or hembula cespitalis. 



A traich of €^g« of Herbvla ee^spUtdu, ree&wed irom Mr, W. HI 

 B . Ftet^jiKT, cf Worthing, on July 28jrd la-st, defMHsted by a motii fewm 

 tike seeoiad iHnood, v«« g^obnlar and nMmsi^ ihe eokmr 1ni«^ cnange. 



