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larvae up entirely on heath, and also some eggs of the usual 

 form of Minutata and feed them entirely on K. arvensis, we 

 should, no doubt, arrive at a satisfactory result. — George W. 

 Bird ; The Darlons, Darlford, Kent, February 23, 1875. 



SiKjariiKj for Moths. — 1 have often searched and enquired 

 as to time with regard to sugaring. In Greene's ' Inseci- 

 Hunter's Companion,' and in Knaggs' ' Lepidopterist's 

 Guide,' are arajjle and excellent directions as to modes of 

 mixing and exposing sugar. As to time of day, 1 find only 

 the following notice in the latter, at p. 93 : — " Many leave 

 their sugared trees for home at too early an hour ; it should 

 be remembered that some species fly at one hour, others at 

 another, and that a succession of visitors arrive from dusk to 

 dawn." As 1 have a service at 8.15 a.m., nearly a mile from 

 home, I seldom visit my trees after 11 p.m. My plan is to 

 sugar just before dusk, and to visit the trees, which are about 

 five minutes' walk from my house, every hour up to 9 p.m. 

 1 seldom find anything later than this; but 1 was once 

 rewarded at 10 p.m. by two fine specimens of Cirrhocdia 

 xeram])clina. J have never met with any information as to 

 time of year. During the last four years I have tried all 

 periods, from January 1st to December 31st, and have come 

 to the conclusion that, in this locality at least, it does not 

 pay to sugar before August 15th or after November 30th. 

 Last year sugar was un])roduclive ; but a collector near here 

 took many sugar-insccls, if I may call them so, on ripe 

 blackberries at night. 1 have not tried this plan myself, but 

 if as effective as sugar it is certainly cheaper. 1 find icw 

 specimens after the moon has risen ; very k\\, moon or no 

 moon, if the wind is from the east, north-east, or north. 

 My trees are on the south side of a wood of some extent. 

 The greatest abundance occurs on dark, damp, warm, and 

 showery nights, when there is a sliffish breeze from tlie south 

 or soulii-west; only kw if the night is calm, unless the 

 weather is thundery. The trees should be visited every 

 night, if possible, but need not be sugared oftener than every 

 other night. Most liiiely there will be but few specimens 

 until after the first week. — [Eev.] Thomas E. Crallan ; 

 llayward's Heath, March 4, 1875. 



[1 shall be extremely obliged to my kind friend Mr. 

 Doubleday if he will give entomologists the benefit of his 



