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only be secured by this means, or by the flood-waters. The 

 method is the same as that employed for attracting moths, viz. : 

 Stand a strong duplex lamp with a reflector behind just inside 

 the window, and another (this without a reflector) further within 

 the room ; and then, with the implements of capture and of 

 death ready close by, there is nothing to be done but to await the 

 visits of your guests, whose arrival will begin about dusk and 

 continue until the small hours of the morning. 



2, Halkin Street West, Belgrave Square, London, S.W. 



(To be continued.) 



LEPIDOPTERA IN KENT. 

 By J. W. TuTT. 



I HAVE noticed that some contributors to the 'Entomologist' 

 complain of the dearth of insects at sugar during the past season. 

 My experience — collecting in North Kent and the neighbourhoods 

 of Sandwich and Deal — has been decidedly contrary to this 

 opinion, Noctuse having been generally abundant ; and in the 

 Sandwich district on some evenings not only were they abundant, 

 but other orders of Lepidoptera were frequently represented. 

 One of the most successful night's work was that on August 6th, 

 and the following summary of the night's work will show that not 

 only are Noctuse fond of the "rum and treacle," but that almost 

 all the other families have some members at any rate that share 

 the same taste. 



The species taken at sugar, arranged in their families, were : — 



DiuRNi. — Vanessa urticae. 



NocTURNi. — Lithosia lutarella v. pygmseola. 



NocTUis (42). — Bryophila perla, Acronycta rumicis, Leucania impura, 

 L. pallens, Hydroecia nictitans, Xylophasia lithoxylea, X. sublustris, 

 X. monoglypha (polyodon), Cerigo matura (cytherea), Luperina testacea, 

 Maraestra brassicse, Apamea leucostigma v. fibrosa, A. didyma (oculea), 

 Miana strigilis, M. litei-osa, M. bicoloiia (fiiruncula), Caradrina quadri- 

 punctata (cubicularis), Agrotis vestigialis (valligera), A. puta, A. suffusa, 

 A. segetum, A. nigricans, A. tritici, A. aquilina, Triphaena ianthina, 

 T. comes (orboua), T. pronuba, Noctua plecta, N. c-)iigrura, N. rubi, 

 N. umbrosa, N. xanthographa, Orthosia upsilon, Calymnia trapeziua, 

 Phlogophora mcticulosa, Hadena trifolii (chenopodiij, H. oleracea, 

 Gonoptera libatrix, Amphipyra pyramidea, A. tragopogonis, Mania typica, 

 Rivula sericealis ; also one other species, about which I am still uncertain. 



