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the end ot August. For P. laetus I was chiefly indebted to 

 the keen sight of a kind friend, more accustomed to their 

 rapid flight. — Baitersltell Gill; 9, Camhridye Terrace, 

 Regent's Park, September 13, 1875. 



Spilodes palealis at Brockley. — It may be interesting to 

 some of the readers of the ' Entomologist' to know that I took 

 a specimen on the wing of Spilodes palealis on the railway- 

 banks, near Brockley, New Cross, on the 4lh of August. I 

 believe this is the second capture of this insect there. — 

 Arthur Bliss; 4, The Terrace, Lady well, near LewisJiam, 

 August 20, 1875. 



Cosmia pyralina. — This species seems to be but poorly 

 represented in most cabinets, the localities where it occurs 

 being few and far between. It has, however, been known to 

 occur pretty continuously in Monk's Wood, near Huntingdon ; 

 and being in this part of the country at the time of the 

 insect's appearance I determined to try for it. I was some- 

 what unfortunate in not being able to get over before the 6th 

 of August, and then only for a single night. Mr. Richardson, 

 of Clare College, met me at the 'White Hart,' Alconbury, 

 Weston, where we took up our quarters, though not so com- 

 fortably as we could have wished. One wood we selected, 

 from the group standing in Alconbury, Upton and Sawtry 

 parishes, was that in Sawtry, St. Judith, which, though 

 somewhat smaller than Monk's Wood, has not been worked 

 so much by entomologists. We sugared some sixty or 

 seventy trees, almost without exception oaks. During the 

 first round we took a couple of Cosmia pyralina on the 

 fifteenth tree, from which we augured much future success. 

 This longing, however, was not to be fulfilled; and the only 

 other C. pyralina we got were two on one tree towards the 

 end of our first round. We commenced a second round 

 about half-past ten, but found insects so scarce that it took 

 but little over half an hour. The other insects attracted by 

 the sugar are scarcely worth mentioning: Noctua baja and 

 Cosmia trapezina swarming everywhere, with a few Tryphceua 

 janthina,and single specimens of Tryphaena fimbria, Caradtina 

 alsines, and Epunda viniinalis. Three of the Cosmia pyra- 

 lina taken were females, from which I infer that had we been 

 a week or two earlier we should not have found the species so 

 scarce. — Gilbert Raynor ; St. John's College, Cambridye, 

 Auyust 23, 1875. 



