260 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



That part of the Burrows is very bare of plants except for marram 

 grass. 



In 1902 I took several specimens of Callimorpha quadripimctaria 

 (hem) in South Devon. They were numerous in the garden of the 

 house where I was staying, and I could have taken many more. They 

 have not occurred there since. 



Macroglosm stellatariim was very common this year at Santon. One 

 which was hovering over a thistle allowed me to gently touch it with- 

 out the least sign of disturbance. I do not know if this is at all 

 unusual. From about August 8th to the beginning of September 

 Satynis semele was very common on Down End, Santon ; and at the 

 same spot, and also at Baggy Point, a few miles further along the 

 coast, Vanessa cardui has been swarming, but they were all faded 

 specimens. I first observed these on June 4th, and they remained in 

 undiminished numbers till about July 17th. However, all through 

 the summer untarnished specimens have been common everywhere. 



On June 17th and June Gth in the years 1905 and 1906 respec- 

 tively, I took a good supply of a local beetle (though quite common 

 where it occurs), Pachyta octomaculata. They frequented (Enanthe 

 crocata on the banks of the River Yeo. — Bkuce F. Cummings; 14, Cross 

 Street, Barnstaple, North Devonshire. 



An Autumn Night's Sugaring at Strensall. — October 9th had 

 been a very warm, muggy day for the time of the year, so I thought I 

 would try sugaring. Just as dusk was coming on a fine drizzling rain 

 started. The wind was a gentle breeze from the south-east, and the 

 atmosphere was oppressive and thundery. I was rather late in getting 

 to my sugaring ground (a row of mixed trees on the edge of an oak 

 wood), and in the hurry of trying to get everything ready on the 

 ground before darkness set in I accidentally poured more than my 

 usual allowance of essence of almonds into the sugar mixture. 

 Whether this fact, or the weather, had most to do with the result I 

 cannot say, but the result was the best sugaring night I have ever had 

 this year. I had about a quart of sugar, mixture, and I had acci- 

 dentally poured half the contents of an essence bottle into it. The 

 moment I had put the mixture on the rain began to fall heavily, and 

 the air was as warm as midsummer. When I started round the sugar 

 patches — about twenty in number and quite small patches — I was 

 astonished at the quantity of moths. The smallest number at any 

 one patch was fifteen, the largest thirty-five. Besides those actually 

 counted sucking the sugar, others were flying up and alighting on 

 different parts of the tree-trunks. The species were : — Orthosia 

 macilenta, 0. lota, Anchocelis pistacina, A. litura, Cerasds vaccinii, 

 C. spadicea, Scopelosoma satellitia, Xanthia ferruyinea, Agriopis aprilina, 

 Miselia oxyacauthce, and Calocampa exoleta, and all of them well distri- 

 buted. At light that same night I got Scotosia dubitata, Oporabia 

 dilntata, Chesias spartiata, and Diloba ceBruleocephala. This last is so 

 common just now at Strensall that I got five in as -many minutes just 

 by putting a lamp in a window overlooking some fields bounded by 

 hedges of hawthorn and blackthorn. Whether the quantities of 

 moths at the sugar were due to the weather, or to the overpowering 

 smell of the almond essence, I cannot say, as the next night was not 



