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dwarf sallow, in the first week in September. — Cuthbert Jeddere- 

 Fisher ; Apsleytown, East Grinstead, 10th January, 1905. 



A Few Captures from Wyre Forest in 1904. — During a week of 

 bad weather in the middle of August, the following, amongst others, 

 were taken: — Heiiophobus popularis, Luperina cespitis, Vanessa c-album, 

 Agrotis suffusa, Noctua dahlii, abundant ; N. neglecta, abundant ; 

 IV. glareosa, Amphipyra pyramidea, Sotodonta dromedarius, Minoa 

 euphorbiata. Amongst larva? taken were : Dicramira bifida, D. furcida, 

 Platypteryx falcida, Demas coryli, Pcecilocampa populi, Cymatophora or, 

 C. ocularis, Halias prasinana, Orygia gonostigma, — W. A. Rollason ; 

 The White House, Truro, Cornwall. 



The Season of 1904. — My work at Dorking this year compares 

 favourably with that of 1903 ; several species were unusually abun- 

 dant, and I took no less than seventeen that were new to me, as far 

 as this locality is concerned. The first noteworthy entry in my diary 

 is for April 4th, from which date until the 14th Amphidasys strataria 

 was very abundant on the lamps, though not a single female was 

 observed. On May 14th I took Euchloe cardamines for the first time, 

 and this species swarmed until well into June. A single specimen 

 of Lycana argiolus was taken on May 14th, the only one I have 

 seen in this neighbourhood for two years. Nemeobius lucina made its 

 appearance on May 18th, and from then until the first week in June it 

 was extremely abundant, its range on Ranmore and elsewhere appear- 

 ing to have extended more widely than during previous years. Pararge 

 egeria occurred sparingly from May 18th onwards, and Syrichthus 

 malvce was not nearly so abundant as in 1903. I took a nice series of 

 Phytometra viridaria on May 19th and 23rd, and on the latter date a 

 very large specimen of Notodonta dictaa from a lamp. On June 1st 

 Eupithecia satyrata was abundant, and on the 2nd I observed Lycana 

 adonis for the first time, though this species was not nearly so plentiful 

 as it has been in former years. On June 3rd I was fortunate enough 

 to take five examples of Agrotis cinerea from one lamp, but they were 

 all males ; and on June 5th I took Notodonta trepida from the same 

 lamp. On this date also a nice brood of Mamestra persicarm began to 

 emerge ; I had fed the lame during the autumn of 1903, on geranium. 

 Lithosia sororcula was taken from a lamp on June 11th, and the first 

 Lycana minima was observed on the 17th. On the following day 

 Eurymene dolabraria was beaten out of a blackberry-bush on Ranmore, 

 and on the 27th a nice series of Setina irrorella was taken from long 

 grass. On the 30th Acontia luctuosa was taken on the same ground, 

 and a female deposited about fifty ova in the pill-box on the way 

 home. Emmelesia alchemillata was taken from a lamp on July 1st, and 

 on the 2nd a fine specimen of Sesia myopaiformis was taken, just after 

 it had emerged from an old apple-tree in my garden early in the 

 morning. Though I watched the tree carefully, however, I never saw 

 another, and I only took one specimen from the same tree in 1903. 

 On July 6th Anarta myrtilli was taken on Ranmore, and Cidaria ful- 

 vata was flying out of almost every bush. On the 8th some larva? of 

 Smerinthus populi went down to pupate, and the imagines emerged and 

 died during my absence from home in August, as also did one speci- 

 men of S. ocellatus, which had gone down to pupate on July 15th. 



