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or, perhaps, more proj^erly I should say it is taken in the 

 hirval state and 7iot bred ; it is rarely recorded as having 

 been taken in the perfect state, though the imago undoubtedly 

 does visit sugar. 



British collectors seem to be beginning to know and to 

 box Leucania albipuncla when they see it, but, so far as 

 I am aware, Folkestone and the Isle of Wight are the only 

 localities which have produced it during the past season. 

 A score or more of Nonagria brevilinea have been secured 

 at Horning. Pachnohia alpina has been bred from a pupa 

 taken under moss by Mr. AUin near Braemar. X. co?ispicil- 

 laris has occurred. Cucullia gnaphalii has been taken at 

 Darenth and Deal, Ophiodcs luiiaris near Lewes. P. sma- 

 ragdaria has been rediscovered, and Euholia mcEniata is said 

 to have turned up at East Grinstead last August. Spilodes 

 palealis has shown itself at Whittlesford and at Folkestone; 

 hut Agrotera nemor alts is perhaps the "lion" of the season, 

 for this hitherto exceedingly rare species has occurred in 

 considerable numbers both at Lewes and at a suburban 

 locality, supposed to be Willesden, on the uncongenial clay, 

 reminding one of former seasons in which such species as 

 Acidalia ruhricata, Sterrha sacraria, Camptogramma 

 Jluviata, Lithostege grisearia, Lemiodes pulveralis, and a 

 lot of others, have figured ; one collector, I am informed, 

 says that he saw nemoralis in abundance, but that he only 

 took a few because he wanted to make up his set of some 

 twopenny-halfpenny Fritillary which happened to be flutter- 

 ing about at the time ! Well, well ! ! there's an old couplet 

 which runs, — 



" If we will not when we may, 

 When we will we shall have nay." 



Instances of neglecting to seize the opportunity are of 

 every-day occurrence, and it is not everybody who thinks 



