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tages, Ore, and the Warren, Folkestone. Hesperia thaumas, Appledore. 

 Sphinx ligustri, Hythe (at rest). Chcerocampa porcellus, Appledore (came 

 to light). C. elpenor, Appledore (came to light). Smerinthus populi, 

 Hastings (at rest). Trochilium crabroniformis, Appledore (plentiful in an 

 osier-bed). Sesia tipuliformis, Appledore (in a garden). Zygcena lonicerce, 

 the Warren, Folkestone. Zygcena jilipendulce, Appledore, and Warren, 

 Folkestone (pupae, plentiful); var. hippocrepidis, Appledore (pupa?) : I 

 obtained seven specimens of this variety from among about 220 pupae of 

 Z.jilipendulce, wbich were set at liberty as they emerged. Earias chlorana, 

 Appledore (sparsely, in osier-beds). Nudaria senex, Appledore (on the 

 marsh, very plentiful). Lithosia muscerda, Appledore (on the marsh). 

 Spilosoma urtica, Appledore (by the canal). Zeuzera pijrlna, Lymne, 

 Hythe. Leucoma salicis, Appledore (very common, in all stages). Bombyx 

 rubi, Ashford. Dicranura furcula, Appledore (osier-bed, larva). D. vinula, 

 Appledore (larvae). Lophopteryx camelina, Saltwood, Hythe. Notodonta 

 ziczac, Appledore (larva). Acronycta tridens, Appledore (at rest). A. aceris, 

 Sandgate (male and female, pairing). Leucania pallens, Shorncliffe 

 (disturbed while sweeping). Hadena oleracea, Appledore. Anarta myrtilli, 

 Ashford (flying outside station). Euclidia glyphica, the Warren, Folkestone 

 (plentiful). Catocala nupta, Sandgate (larvae). Pericallia syringaria, in a 

 wood near Ashford. Geometra papilionaria, Lymne, Hythe. Acidalia 

 inornata, Appledore (male and female). A. imitaria, Hythe (plentiful). 

 Timandra amataria, Hythe (plentiful). Eupithecia rectangulata, Shorn- 

 cliffe (plentiful). Anticlea cucullata, Hythe (West), (four males and one 

 female). Cidaria associata, Appledore and Folkestone. Sugaring seemed 

 to be of no service this year; the best insects were mostly taken by casual 

 searching in the day. Insects came well to light, but there were no 

 particularly rare species, excepting C. porcellus. Sweeping on Romney 

 Marshes was fairly profitable ; though the best insects taken were the 

 pupae of M. galatea. A collector I met informed me that he had seen 

 Apatura iris in a small wood at the back of Hythe in 1897. — Linden 

 Heitland; Amberley House, Crouch Hill, London, N., Aug. 12th, 1898. 



Macroglossa bombyliformis, Ochs. (— fuciformis, Staint. Newm.) 

 at Oxshott.— On August 13th last 1 found twelve larvae of this species 

 on an isolated patch of honeysuckle growing among the heahter a short 

 distance from Oxshott station. They were mostly full grown. About a 

 mile further on a much larger quantity of honeysuckle was met with but 

 although this was closely examined only one larva of M. bombyliformis was 

 detected. In walking through the heather and bracken Plusia gamma darted 

 up in front of one at almost every step. — Richard South, 100, Ritherdon 

 Road, Upper Tooting. 



A Plague of White Butterflies. — For several days past the gardens 

 here have been infested with the greatest plague of these I have ever 

 yet seen ; nine-tenths of them being Pieris rapes. With a view of reducing 

 the crop of caterpillars later on, I have kept a boy almost constantly going 

 with the net. During the last two days he totalled 268 of them, on one 

 occasion he took five at one stroke. At present there is but little diminution 

 in their numbers. — George Wall ; Grim's Dyke; Harrow Weald, Aug. 

 18th, 1898. 



Leucoma salicis in London District.— On July 7th last I found two 

 larva? of L. salicis on a poplar tree on Wandsworth Common ; both subse- 



