296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A. tridens ; A. Rumicis ; L. lithargyria, plentiful ; L. stra- 

 minea; A. putris; X. lithoxylea ; X. polyodon, dozens; 

 A. oculea; M. strigilis; C. cubicularis ; A. pula, a dark 

 series; A. suffusa; A. saucia ; A. segelum ; A. exclamationis, 

 dozens; A. nigricans; T. janthina; T. orbona and T. pro- 

 nuba, dozens; N. augur; N, plecta; N. C-nigruni, common ; 

 C. Rubi ; C. xanthograplia, dozens; T. cruda; O. macilenta ; 

 A. pistacina, dozens ; A. lunosa, plentiful ; C. spadicea, a 

 few ; S. satellitia, common ; X. ferruginea, coramoii ; P. flavo- 

 cincta, dozens; M. Osyacanthae, many; A. aprilina ; P, me- 

 ticulosa, common; X. litboriza; C. exoleta; X. rbizolitha, 

 many; X. semibrunnea, eight; A. Tragopogonis, common ; 

 C. nupta, three ; besides a few Geometers and Pyrales. 



The interest attached to sugar capturing is certainly great, 

 — something similar I should imagine, " parva componere 

 magnis," to that of the sportsman in the East, who cannot tell 

 what noble game may leap out of the tangled jungle at any 

 step ; so on a dark night, when the moth-hunter proceeds 

 with "stealthy steps and slow" to the sweetened tree, and 

 turns on the light, he cannot tell what almost unknown 

 rarity may possibly delight his eyes and reward his pursuit; 

 and even some of the more common insects — M. Oxyacanthae 

 or C. diffinis, for example — appear, I think, more beautiful 

 under the lamp than at any other time. I know that when 1 

 saw C. exoleta the other night, under such circumstances, I 

 could not imagine what grand prominent I was beholding, — 

 with his full crest and closely shut-up wings he was exactly 

 like some important member of that family. 



But it is quite time that I should conclude this gossipy 

 paper. Scientific entomologists and practical collectors may 

 think it, 1 fear me, not worth the space it occupies. I trust 

 there are some, like myself— ^collectors under difficulties — 

 to whom this paper may afford some measure of encourage- 

 ment when they see how much maybe done with but limited 

 means and space at command. 



Should there be a locality where A. pistacina and P. flavo- 

 cincta are not plentiful, it will give me much pleasure to send 

 any applicant a i'ew, as long as 1 have any, if he will first 

 send me a post-card. If he receives no reply he must 

 consider that m}' stock is exhausted. 



H. W. LiVETT. 



Wells, Somerset. 



