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greatly increased, and included the following : — Uropteri/x sambucata, Bumia 

 cratcegata, Metrocamjm viargaritata, Selenia lunar ia, Odontopera bidentata, 

 Crocallis elinguaria, Amphidaxys betularia (an intermediate variety between 

 tlie ordinary form and var. doubledayaria), Hemerophila abruptaria. Boar, 

 mia repandata, B. rhoinboidaria, Tephrosia crepuscularia, T. punclulata, 

 Geometra papilionaria, Ephyra punctaria, E. trilinearia, Asthena luteata, 

 Acidalia remutata, A. incauaria, A. aversata, Cabera pusaria, C. exanthe- 

 viaria, Corycia temerata, Macaria liturata, Halia vauaria, Panagra 

 petraria, Fidonia atomaria, F. piniaria, Abraxas uhnata, Lomaspllis mar. 

 ginata, Larentia didymata, L. pectinitaria, Emmelesia decolorata, Eupi- 

 thecia centaureata, E. abbreviata, E. eoronata, E. exiguata, E. vulgata, E. 

 indigata, E. assimilata, E. lariciata, E. castigata, E. rectangulata, Thera 

 variata, Hypsipetes elutata, Melanthia ocellata, M. albicillata, Melanippe 

 montanata, M. fiuctuata, M. subtristata, Anticlea badiala, Coremia uni. 

 dentata, C. ferrugata, Camptogramma biUneata, Scotosia dubitata, Cidaria 

 corylata, G.fulvata, C. immanata, lodis lactearia, Emmelesia albulata, and 

 Cidaria suffumata. In the Bombyces, Cuspidates, and Noctuae we took 

 Hepialus hectus, H. velleda, Euchelia jacob(BCB, Chelonia caia, Arctia men- 

 dica, A. lubricipeda, Orgyia j^udihunda, Bombyx quercus, Cilix spinula, 

 Platypteryx falcula, Notodonta dromedarius, Thyatira derasa, Acronycta 

 psi, Leucania conigera, Hydrcecia nictitans, Axijlia putris, Xylophasia rurea, 

 X. polyodon, Mamestra brassica, Apamea basilinea, A. oculea (very varied), 

 Miana strigilis var. cBthiops, Caradrina cubicularis, Agrotis nigricans, Tri- 

 phcBna ianthina, T. interjecta, T. pronuba, T. fimbria, T. comes, Noctua 

 augur, N. c-nigrum, N. brunnea, Eiiperia fulvago, Cosmia trapezina, 

 Epunda viminalis, Euplexia lucipara, Hadena adusta, H. oleracea, H. con- 

 tigua, Plusia pulchrina, P. iota, P. gamma, Amphipyra pyramidea, Mania 

 typica, and Euclidia mi. On the evening of July 28th I went with my 

 brother, the Rev. E. G. Alderson, to Sherwood Forest, in order to sugar 

 for Euperia flavago. The night, which was favourable at starting, turned 

 cold about 9 o'clock, so our bag was not so good as we had hoped for. 

 However, we added to our captures Noctua baja, N. triangulum, Ennomos 

 angularia, and Xylophasia scolopacina, the last new to us. Of E. fulvago 

 we only took one battered specimen, which my brother caught on the wing 

 about 8 p.m. We were evidently unfortunate enough to visit its favourite 

 haunt at a time between the emergence of the two broods, as I read with 

 pleasure that one of your correspondents, Mr. W. Ferris, had taken the 

 species in plenty on Ang. 29th (Entom. xxvi. 327). During the greater 

 part of August, and early in September, we were away from home, so my 

 records are a blank for that time. On returning, however, we found that 

 many of the autumn moths were stirring; T took, amongst others, 

 Xanthia ferruginea, Miselia oxyacanthcB, Ancliocelis litura, Phlogopliora 

 meticulosa, Macroglossa stellatarum, and Himera pennaria. In November 

 and December we were still busy, with Oporabia dilutata, Cheimatobia 

 brumata, C. boreata, Hybernia aurantiaria, and H. defoliaria. I have 

 never seen the last-named species in such beautiful variety, and we were 

 fortunate in getting a long series. Of Diurni this district is particularly 

 barren, and it is quite an event to see a butterfly on the wing other than 

 the cabbage white; 1893, however, proved rather an exception to the rule, 

 if not in quantity at least in quality, as it produced one specimen of 

 Vatiessa c-album and two specimens of Thecla iv-album, neither of which 

 species had been heard of in Nottinghamshire for a number of years. I 



EKTOM. — APRIL, 1894. M 



