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the subdorsal, and another one along the spiracular region; all 

 these lines together giving a reticulated appearance on the paler 

 ground colour. The tubercles are very dark brown, and are 

 polished, but not so highl}' as the head and plates. Spiracles 

 black. Ventral surface of the colour of the dorsal area. Having 

 ceased feeding, the larva forms and lines with silk a cavity in the 

 soil at the roots of the moss, in which it changes to a pupa. 

 This is nearly half an inch long, and of ordinary shape and 

 proportions ; it is highly polished, and has the abdominal 

 divisions, the eye-, leg-, and wing-cases clearly defined, though 

 not prominent. Colour bright brown, the front of the thorax 

 with an olive tinge; eye-cases darker than the ground colour, 

 and the abdominal divisions chocolate-brown : these dark 

 abdominal divisions, too, show clearly, even through the lower 

 part of the wing-cases. The imagos emerge in June ; and from 

 a June moth I one season reared a second brood in August. — 

 Geo. T. Porritt ; Highroyd House, Huddersfield, May 9, 1882. 



Captures near Leafwood, Sussex. — I have diligently worked 

 this district this spring, and have taken thirty-one varieties of 

 Macro-Lepidoptera, including the following: — Cymato'pliora flavi- 

 cornis, Trachea piniperda, Taniocanipa rubricosa, T. gracilis, 

 T. munda, Xylina rhizolitha, X. petrificata, Amphydasis prodro- 

 maria (a long series), Hemerophila abruptaria, Lohophora lohulata, 

 and Cidaria psittacata. — G. R. Ware ; Leafwood, Frant, Sussex, 

 March 23, 1882. 



Notes on Insects at Sugar. — Subjoined are a few notes on 

 my sugaring experience during the last season. They may be of 

 interest, as showing the effect of prevailing weather on the 

 abundance or otherwise of insects, though I am sorry to say 

 none of the captures mentioned are individually worth noting. 

 May 26. — Close, sultry night, with a breath of wind from the east, 

 and sheet-lightning playing about the horizon. Blank evening ; 

 nothing appearing but a solitary Noctua xantJiographa and three 

 Gonoptera libatrix. On a cold, clear night early in June ; wind 

 light from S.W., and moon (nearly at the full) shining brightly 

 on the trees, I had a fair attendance of common Noctuse, as 

 Grammesia t7'ilinea, Agrotis exclamationis, A. segetum, Noctua 

 plecta, Triphcena pronuba, &c. ; I also took Hadena adusta. 

 June 21. — Mild night, wind S W. ; Noctuse scarce, but several 



