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hybernated larvse of Nota centonalis I reared twenty-three very 

 fine imagines, and obtained fertile eggs, which are now duly 

 emerging as moths, second brood. Acidalia ochrata, A. degene- 

 raria and A. emutaria were successfully hybernated and bred in 

 June and July ; also a very fine series of Acidalia strigilata, from 

 eggs I secured whilst at Folkestone last year. Acronycta alni, 

 five bred on whitethorn, from five eggs. A fine series of Tephrosia 

 extersaria, from the egg ; and during July and August I reared a 

 beautiful series of E. autumnaria. Also eight specimens of 

 Cidaria picata ; this is a glorious species when bred. These and 

 a lot of commoner species have kept the season from being dull, 

 as in captures alone it would have been. — W. H. Tugwell ; 

 Greenwich, August 10,. 1882. 



Notes on the Season. — Early in May, on the moors, insects 

 seemed to be in plenty. Thecla rubi was in swarms : for a bit of 

 fun I caught six at one stroke, when they were engaged in 

 pugnacity ; I told my daughter if she saw any that could scarcely 

 fly to take them, as it was the best chance of getting a variety, 

 especially if a cripple. It turned up as hoped for ; one specimen 

 shows the brown on the under wings, as in T. pruni. This is the 

 first variety of T. ruhi that I have ever seen. Nemophora pilella, 

 only one specimen turned up ; and I sent again, with not much 

 better result. However, I went again and took my son, who had 

 not known how to follow the sun, and captured about sixty 

 specimens. When the sun shone on a small patch of bilberry in 

 a clearance of the fir wood, about 11 o'clock, they kept rising out of 

 the undergrowth, and I continued finding up to 3 p.m. — places, as 

 the sun went round, that were alive with insect life, where pre- 

 viously I could not see a moth ; and at the spot that I visited at 

 11 no life was seen, hence my great catch. Early in July I paid 

 a visit to Witherslack to get some Chortobius Davus for a friend : 

 a false rush at one cut my career short, for a tendon of my right 

 leg snapped, and I am as lame to-day as then, and likely to be so 

 for a long time to come. However, I went to spend a week, 

 to rest my leg, at Arnside, in Westmoreland. I managed to 

 hobble a little, and strange to say a small moth flew past : my 

 wife took the net, and brought back a female Eupithecia pygiiueata. 

 Two days later I took another, which is alive yet, and I hope to 

 have eggs from them. This species is quite two months late. At 

 the same time a white moth flew past, which was Emmelesia 



