58 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the clematis-covered hedgerows, and over the campions in the 

 fields. I had only a very short time before the train went, but 

 among other things I took a fine lot of Mamestra anceps, some 

 Phibalapteryx tersata, and Neuria saponariee, the latter at blos- 

 soms of Silene injiata ; such lots of things were on the wing that 

 I regretted 9.25 being the last train home. Just as it was 

 arriving I took a male Arctia villica flying round the lamp in the 

 passage under the line, and on the same day I had another 

 brought me from Southend, taken at a Sunday school treat. 



Then came the Jubilee, which I took advantage of to get a 

 couple of days at Hailsham, travelling down on Saturday after- 

 noon, and returning on Monday evening to be ready for the pro- 

 cession on Tuesday, for which I had a seat. Hard beating 

 through the woods during the daytime was very poorly repaid, 

 but at long intervals Halias prasinana, Eurymene dolabraria (two 

 only), Asthena luteata, Acidalia sabsericeata (several), Panagra 

 chcerophyllata (common but local), and Platypteryx falcula turned 

 up, but little else, and very few common things ; while many 

 regular Abbott's Wood species, such as Melitcea athalia, Melanippe 

 hastata, Gnophria rubricollis, and others were totally absent. 

 Very little was flying at dusk, and odd specimens of Hepialus 

 hectus, Halias prasinana, Calligenia miniata, Angerona prunaria, 

 Cleora lichenaria, Acidalia subsericeata, and Timandra amataria 

 were the best of a poor lot. Treacling was the feature of the 

 visit, when common things swarmed to the tune of thirty, forty, 

 fifty, or even more on every tree, with a fair sprinkling of better 

 species. The best of the lot was Diphthera orion, but there was 

 considerable variety, of which the following form the principal : 

 — Leucania comma (very abundant and fine), Xylophasia hepatica 

 (very common, often four or five on a tree at once), X. rurea, X. 

 anceps, X. lithoxylea, Apamea gemina (six), Miana strigilis, M. 

 fasciuncula (both in profusion), Grammesia trilinca and var. bilinea 

 (two of the latter), Rusina tenebrosa, Agrotis exclamationis (in 

 vast numbers and some nice forms), a single Noctua plecta, N. 

 /estiva (abundant and in great variety), N. c-nigrum, Hecatera 

 serena, Aplecta herbida (fairly common, but some rather worn), 

 A. nebulosa (abundant), a few each Erastria fuscida, Hadena 

 adusta, H. genista, and H. thalassina (worn), and a fine variable 

 series of H. dentina, from pale whitish grey to dark smoky black. 

 I did no larva-beating, but in the hedges Bombyx neustria, Diloba 

 cceruleocepkala, and Liparis auriflua were very conspicuous, an 

 odd full-grown larva of Eriogaster lanestris also turning up, but 

 not any of the nests of the latter species. 



I took very few species worth noting at Crouch End during 

 the summer. Apamea ophiogramma occurred sparingly during 

 July, and on the 10th of the same month I took Acidalia imitaria* 

 on a gas-lamp, surely a curious species for a North London 



:;; This species used to be fairly common at Mill Hill. — Ed. 



