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especially strongly marked. My specimens came from Strood 

 and Deal. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES FROM THE NORTH-WEST COUNTIES. 

 By J. Arkle. 



Up to the beginning of March frost and snow made collecting 

 impossible. I occasionally saw Chiematohia briimata and Hyhernia 

 defoliaria on the gas-lamps ; but it was not till the 10th of 

 March that I made the acquaintance of Nijssia hispidaria, 

 in Delamere Forest. This moth was a very common insect in 

 that locality until the end of the month — with, of course, H. 

 rupicapraria, H. leiicophearia, H. marginana, Anisoptergx cescu- 

 laria, Larentia midtistrigaria, Phigalia pedaria and, occasionally, 

 Cymatopliora or and Amplddasys strataria. A good rain, the 

 first with us for months, occurred on April 12th, and was 

 succeeded by a few days of warmth. On April 17th I came 

 across the common Tieniocampa representatives with T. (jnicilis 

 and T. incerta — all in profusion on the sallow-blooms at night. 



The succeeding cold left me nothing to record until May 2nd, 

 when a few Tephrnsia hinndularia {laricaria) emerged — bred 

 from Delamere Forest larvae which I had beaten oft; birch last 

 autumn. On the 5th larvae of Liparis similis {auriflua) — which 



