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tember 4th and 8th (two). x'Ml the above must surely be examples 

 of a second brood emerging in this unusually favourable summer. 

 Noctua xantliocjrapha continued in fresh condition till September 4th. 

 It seems probable that some of these specimens belonged to a second 

 brood. Even in a normal year fresh specimens would be over long 

 before the end of August. Unfortunately we were not at home in 

 July, and so cannot say when the species came out first. Hadena 

 2Jrotea was very abundant at sugar in early September, and a few 

 specimens came to light. We never saw one in 1910. — P. A. and 

 D. A. J. Buxton ; Fairhill, Tonbridge. 



Ageotis exclamationis in September. — This species is not un- 

 known here in the month of September. I find I have the following 

 records : — September 9th and 2Gth, 1893, at sugar ; September 4th, 

 1900, at sugar ; September 10th, 1906, at sugar.- — F. C. Whittle; 7, 

 Marine Avenue, Southend. 



Agrotis exclamationis, &c., in August. — A.exclainationisoccurved 

 in the garden here between August 22nd and 31st this year. I also 

 noted Hadena oleracea on August 27th ; Pliisia moneta and P. 

 chrysitis on August 19th and 20th respectively. Hepialus lupulinus 

 was seen on August 19th. — F. W. J. Jackson; Woodcote End 

 House, Epsom. 



Agrotis exclamationis in September. — -In the ' Entomologist ' 

 for October, 1911, I noticed an Editorial note to the effect that 

 Agrotis exclamationis was not usually taken in September. Whether 

 this species always occurs in that month in this particular locality, 

 sheltered as it is to the north by Portsdown Hill, I do not know, as 

 I have no previous experience to judge from, but this season at any 

 rate the second brood was to be taken freely at sugar from the middle 

 of August up to September 10th in perfect condition, the specimens 

 being rather more finely marked and of a more distinct clarety shade 

 on the fore wings than in the first brood. I sugared in my small 

 garden here regularly from August 10th up to the end of September, 

 and the extraordinary abundance of the second brood of many of our 

 common species was most noticeable, especially as I had only been 

 able to take one or two of the earlier brood in June, and in some 

 cases had not noticed the presence of the species at all. The more 

 conspicuous and abundant were, in addition to the above — Acronycta 

 psi, one only on August 31st ; Mamestra hrassiccB up to October 10th ; 

 Triphana pi^'onuha to October 11th ; Garadrina cubicularis, Agrotis 

 puta and Agrotis segetum to the present date ; Hadena suasa to 

 August 25th ; H. chenopodii and H. oleracea exceedingly abundant 

 to the end of September ; Acidalia imitaria to September 3rd ; 

 Timandra amataria to September 6th, and Eupithecia ccntaureata to 

 September 30th ; perfect specimens of each were obtained on the 

 dates mentioned, whilst those that extended into the present month 

 have been in great numbers on the ivy, the same remark applying to 

 Triphcena comes which has been noticed every month from June 

 onward. A larva of Agrotis exclamationis taken on August 9th pupated 

 the next day, the imago emerging on x\ugust 19th, thus showing 

 the extraordinarily short duration of the pupal stage in this unusually 

 hot summer. In this connection, however, perhaps the most ex- 



