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examples have occurred, the former in the larval state. 

 Among the Bomhyces and Pseudo-hombyces the most notable 

 captures are Nola strigulaj which has been extraordinarily 

 abundant in the New Forest during the past season; and 

 Deiopeia piucheUa, which has appeared in numbers pre- 

 viously unheard of in this country — at least a couple of score 

 must have been added to our collections ! ! How are we to 

 account for rarities thus starting forth in comparative pro- 

 fusion and then either suddenly or gradually disappearing ? 

 At one time it is an emtarixis de Sterrha sacraria which 

 takes us by surprise, at another an abundance of some ordi- 

 narily rare Deilephila '^ astonishes our weak nerves," and so 

 on. Now pulchella is all the fashion ; Jloreat Deiopeia. 



The following Noctum, too, are worth mention. Aero- 

 nycta ahii, of which about a dozen have been captured, 

 chiefly in the larval state, in various parts of the country both 

 north and south; Leucania putrescejis at Teignmouth as 

 usual, L. alhipimcta at Folkestone, at Canterbury and near 

 Exeter, and three L. vitelUna, previously unrecorded, taken 

 at Torquay respectively in the autumns of 1868, '69 and '70, — 

 one at Arbutus, two at ivy-bloom. 



Tapinostola elymi has been bred from larvae taken at 

 Cleethorpes, X. co7ispicillaris has occurred at Malvern Link, 

 Pachetra leucophoea at Gravesend, and Triphcena orbona 

 (suhsequa) has been wonderfully abundant; more especially 

 in the New Forest; Noctua sohrina has been captured in 

 Perthshire by several collectors, Glcea erythrocephala also 

 at sugar at Daren th and elsewhere; Diantkcecia irregularis 

 has been bred; of Crymodes exulis three more have been se- 

 cured to make up the dozen; Xylina conformis has been 

 bred, and a few examples of Meliothis armigera have been 

 secured chiefly in the south, and its congener, H.p)eltigeray has 

 occurred at Glanville's Wootton, 



