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Captures at Sugar. — During August and September I 

 captured the following insects at sugar in this locality: — 

 Thyatira derasa, several ; Cymatophora diluta, commonly ; 

 Leucania conigera and Nonagria fulva, a few ; Hydroecia 

 nictitans, commonly ; H. micacea, a ievf ; Cerigo cytherea, 

 commonly; Apamea fibrosa, two; Agrotis puta, very abun- 

 dantly ; A. aquilina, commonly; A. ravida, commonly; 

 A. pyrophila, several ; Triphaena fimbria and T. interjecta, 

 common (the latter particidarly so) ; Xanthia citrago, 

 X. cerago, and X. silago, commonly ; Xanthia gilvago and 

 Cirrcedia xerampelina, several ; Tethea subtusa, four ; Cosmia 

 diffinis and C. affinis, extremely common ; Polia flavocincta, 

 two ; Heliothis armiger, one ; Catocala nupta, several. They 

 were all taken in the same locality, the sugar being laid upon 

 sixteen trees in a road facing a wood. — A. J. Spiller ; 

 Stanslead, Bishops Stortford. 



Captures at Sugar: Xanthia aurago, Epunda lutu- 

 lenta, dc. — I commenced sugaring early in June ; but until 

 September with little or no success, the result being nearly 

 always the same, — " a beggarly account of empty boxes." In 

 September, however (which was here a month of most 

 glorious weather), things changed for the better; and as the 

 species I took are somewhat local I think them worth 

 recording : — September 13th, one Epunda lutulenta (female) ; 

 17th, two Xanthia aurago ; 18th, four E. lutulenta (two males 

 and two females) and three X. aurago (including a very 

 beautiful variety, the median portion of the fore wings being 

 so thickly sprinkled with crimson-purple scales as almost to 

 obliterate the usual orange ; this colour is quite distinct from 

 the ferruginous purple bands at the base and hind margins) ; 

 22nd, one X. aurago ; 24lh, three X. aurago, one E. lutulenta, 

 one Agriopis aprilina, and one Calocampa exoleta. It is 

 rather strange, but in this particular locality X. aurago is 

 more abundant than either Xanthia cerago or X. silago. I 

 omit all reference to the " ignobile vulgus," such as Ancho- 

 celis litura, A. lunosa, A. pislacina, &c,, which were only of 

 too common appearance. — Joseph Anderson, jun. ; Alresford, 

 Hants. 



Captures at Newton Abbot. — I have received a very fine 

 specimen of Xylina semibrunnea, and also a specimen of 

 Sphinx Convolvuli (taken in a stable, dead), from Bagtor, a 



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