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During September a few more larvae of A. atropos were met with, and 

 on the oth a pupa was sent me by Mrs. Fogden. On the 9th I took 

 from a gas-lamp Einiomos fitscantaria, another on 13th, and a worn 

 specimen on Oct. 1st. Sugar was a complete failure, the only insect 

 worth naming attracted by it being Catocala nupta. — Joseph Anderson. 



Notes on Lepidoptera from Portland. — Both broods of Lycana 

 argiolm were out in fair numbers, but of L. adonis, Colias cdvsa, and 

 Vanessa cardui, so plentiful here last season, I have only seen one of 

 the last named. AcidaUa degenaria I managed to find in two or three 

 spots on the island and took a few, but they were mostly in poor 

 condition. I was fortunate enough to discover a larva of (hicullia 

 ubsinthii on the 31st August feeding on wormwood growing in my 

 garden, and, from the knowledge of its appearance thus gained, was 

 enabled to find between twenty and thirty others at home and afield, 

 but they did not pupate satisfactorily. In the spring-time I took a 

 hundred or so of Epunda Uclmied larvte, which fed well and appeared 

 to go down all right ; but when I looked for the pup^e, I found the 

 bulk had entirely disappeared, from what cause I cannot say. Helio- 

 phohus hispidus I found in its usual haunts in fair numbers. A few 

 Acrophtjia amt rail's came to sugar, and in May I found about a dozen 

 larvae, from which I bred five imagines. More common insects have 

 not been generally plentiful hei.'-e this season. I had no difficulty in 

 obtaining ova of H. hispidus and of E\ lichnica, the former of which 

 have just hatched. — Jno. T. Hyde ; The Grove, Portland. 



Lepidoptera at Lioht in Hertfordshire. — In continuation of my 

 notes on Lepidoptera taken at hght in this county during IS'dd {vide 

 Entom. xxxiii. pp. 92 and 93), I now give below a list of those I ob- 

 tained from January 1900 to the end of September, 1901. During 

 that period I captured rather more than two hundred and thirty 

 different species within a short distance of our house. The majority 

 were captured with a light-trap fitted to a first-floor window, and the 

 remainder at an electric lamp in a garden close by. I do not have my 

 trap fitted with any killing apparatus, so that any specimens not 

 required can be liberated in the morning. 



The best captures were as ioWowii-.-^SawthripHs i-emijaiui [midu- 

 lanus), one. Sptldsotiui inenthastri, a brown aberration. Trichium 

 rraUegi, three males. Liiperina cespitis, seven. Apamea nnanimis, one, 

 A. ophioijramma, three. Agmtis rinerca, one male. A. porp/q/rm (stri- 

 gula), oiie. Orthosia suspccta, one. Cahjmnia pgraUna, fairly common. 

 ' Aster oscopvs sphinx, males fairly plentiful. Plnsia moneta, four (also four 

 more taken at dusk). Spilodes palealis, one. Galleria wellonella, one. 



The following is a list of the other species. The dates after the 

 commoner species indicate the earliest and latest dates on which they 

 were observed on the wing during the period dealt with. 



Sphinges :— Remarkably scarce, being represented by smgle speci- 

 mens of Sphinx ligustri (an exceptionally large one), and Smermthus 

 ocellatiis. 



Bombyces :~Hijlophila hicolorana (quercana), one. Xola cucullateUa, 

 June 30th— July 13th. Lithosia griseola, one. L. larideola, July 7th 

 —July 30th. Euchelia jacobate, one. Arctia caia, few. Spdosoma 

 luhricipeda, May 28th— July 3rd. S. menthastri, May 19th— July 13th. 



ENTOM. — DECEMBER, 1901. -^ ^ 



