318 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



On August 4th I took another trip into North Wales. My 

 object was to extend what knowledge I possess respecting the 

 haunts of Agrotis ashworthii, an insect which is still to be had, 

 I am told, but by a very limited number of entomologists, 

 among whom, I am sorry to say, I cannot at present rank 

 myself. Mr. Alfred 0. Walker gives both Llangollen and ' The 

 Loggerheads ' as localities ; and both districts are certainly well- 

 known to me. * The Loggerheads,' which is simply a quiet and 

 comfortable country inn, is reached by walking along a dry 

 water-way cut in the face of limestone precipices, four or five 

 miles from the hamlet of Ehydymwyn, on the Chester and 

 Denbigh Eailway. The scenery is among the finest in North 

 Wales, and all along the entomologist finds a splendid, if 

 dangerous, hunting-ground. On this occasion my captures, 

 owing to the miserable weather, were few: — Lycana astrarche, 

 late, and just appearing ; P. pruinata, Anaitis plagicda, Cidaria 

 tnincata var. perfuscata, Mimceseoptilus pterodactylus. Satyrus 

 semele, an abundant butterfly here, was evidently still in the 

 chrj^salis ; and the fresh bloom on the dog-roses gave additional 

 hints on the lateness of the season. I might well, therefore, 

 have spared myself the search, on the face of an uglj^-looking 

 clifl', for A. ashworthii, — at any rate I gave it up, for an intended 

 larva-hunt some night next spring, as rain began to fall. I 

 may add that I came across many cocoons of Plusia gamma — a 

 moth which has swarmed with us — a curious coincidence to the 

 season's abundance of V. cardui. Cold weather, rain, and very 

 little sunshine, marked the greater part of August. The 

 common but brilliant tiger-beetle, Cicindela campestris, was 

 abundant in the first week, on the heaths at Delamere. The 

 effect of the unseasonable weather was shown by my taking two 

 fine Geometra papilionaria from a Chester gas-lamp, on August 

 6th. From another gas-lamp I took Cosmia pyralina on the 

 10th. On the 25th I was fortunate in obtaining larvae of 

 Notodonta dictceoides from sallows growing in the Chester 

 Cemetery. The 8th and 13th of September are red-letter days 

 marked as visits to Wallasey, and with the captm-es of Deilephila 

 gain larvse. Anomala frischii was a fairly common beetle on both 

 occasions. 



Sharp and unusual frost set in on the 25th of September. 

 Previous to that date I ought to note a capture of Cirrhcedia 



