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Geometers appeared in plant}'. Cabera pusaria and Melanippe 

 montanaria swarmed at the trees, and were a pest ; also Boarmia 

 rhomboidaria. I took, too, Melanippe albicillata and Phorodesma 

 dolobraria. July 1st was an exceedingly hot day ; clear night, 

 wind N.E., but very light. Moths very abundant: Leucania 

 pallens, Xylophasia lithoxylea, X. hepatica, Miania strigilis, G. 

 trilinea, Caradrina blanda, Rusina tenebrosa, A. segetum, A, 

 exclamationis, T. pronuba, N. plecta, N. C-nigrum, N. tri- 

 angidum, N. brunnea, N. /estiva, Euplexia lucipara, Aplecta 

 herbida, A. nebulosa, Hadena dentina, Mania typica, and one 

 specimen of Cymatophora ocularis. The Geometers were best 

 represented (in point of numbers) by B. rhomboidaria. I cannot 

 help remarking li(-re — as many others have done lately — on the 

 extraordinary abundance everywhere of Triphcena pronuba last 

 season. Many pretty varieties have turned up. In particular, I 

 have taken one with upper wings very pale, and suffused with a 

 feint olive-green tinge ; the discoidal spots in contrast dark and 

 clearly defined. July 5th was another scorching day ; the evening 

 was clear, with moon shining; wind N.E. ; later on it became 

 cloudy, and the wind veered to S. and W. Insects as abundant 

 as on the 1st. I took the same species again, with the addition 

 of Thyatira derasa and T. batis. July 18th proved a bad night, 

 though the weather promised fairly enough. Nothing came but a 

 few M. typica and such-like invaluable species. July 20 and 21. — 

 Weather cool, with N.W. breeze. Both blank nights. Some 

 half-dozen in all of T. derasa, Apaniea oculea, and Leucania 

 lithargyria. July 29. — Wind S.W., sky clear. Another blank 

 night ; Amphipyra pyramidcea only. August 9. — Weather very 

 unsettled, chilly, with heavy showers at intervals. A. pyramidcea 

 abundant; A. tragopogonis ; took also Larentia pectinitaria and 

 Cidaria silaceata.—C. Candler; Harleston, Norfolk, 1882. 



Notes on Lepidoptera. — I have to record the capture of two 

 Bryopliila glandifera on a fence at Portsmouth last July. Being 

 the first time I have heard of its occurrence there, I thought 

 perhaps it might be a new locality for it, and worth noting. 

 I have also to record the capture by myself, on a fence at 

 Roehampton, of a very light variety oi Acronycta psi, having the 

 fringes of the fore wings, and also the tip of the abdomen, of a 

 beautiful rosy pink colour. I have a Chelonia caja, female, bred 

 last season, with the veins all marked with the dark ground 



