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fifty larvae ; and examples were to be seen on palings, walls, &c. 

 Bomhyx quercus, B. neustria, Saturnia pavonia {carpini), and 

 Dicranura vinula were, amongst others, noticed ; and an oak 

 twig covered with eggs proved to be those of D. pudibunda ; 

 whilst an erratic female, B. rubi, had deposited a batch of eggs 

 on a black fence by the railway station. Many other common 

 species were in fair numbers. — F. W. Hawes ; Dovecote Villas, 

 Wood Green, August 15, 1885. 



Captures in Berkshire. — During last July, and at other 

 times, I have collected at Beaumont (Berks), and have noticed a 

 good many not generally common insects there. Sphinx con- 

 volvuli has been twice taken within the grounds ; and last July I 

 obtained a specimen of Boarmia rohoraria, which came to 

 light. I saw a specimen of Thecla pruni, which I was unable to 

 capture. A large specimen of the beetle, Prionus coriariiis, was 

 tiiken on the wing at night, and brought to me. — Edmund 

 Gardner ; Roehampton Lane, S.W., September, 1885. 



Stray Notes from Preston. — This season I have reared a 

 number of Nepticula anomalella, a few Coccyx scopariana, Hedya 

 servillana, and seven or eight Cidaria reticidata. My captures 

 are but few. In a few hours, at Windermere, I got four 

 Heliozele resjilendella, one Nepticula internella, one Phoxopteryx 

 diminutana, some P. hiarcuana, &c. At Grange, during the 

 same week, I took twenty Catropia aspidiscana, and a dozen 

 Pancalia leioenhoekella. Of butterflies, I took only Leucophasia 

 sinapis, Argynnis euphrosyne, and Lyccena argiolus. During 

 another day at Windermere, which I had in July, I captured 

 a score or so of Scoparia conspiciialis, and a few S. hasi- 

 strigalis, one Cidaria reticulata, Venusia cambrica, &c. On an 

 odd day at Witherslack, in the second week in July, I took 

 three Eupoecilia amandana (sodaliana), flying round buckthorn, 

 about 7 p.m., when I saw others. On the bank by the inn I took 

 Phothedes captiunc^da iexpolita), and, on the same day, Oxyptilus 

 parvidactylus, and other species, were in plenty. During a few 

 weeks in August I was too unwell to collect any insects ; but at 

 Blackpool I got about fifty Eupoecilia atricapitana, some Choreutes 

 myllerana {scintillulana) , and Epliippiplwra populana {ephtppana) 

 by hundreds. Sericoris littoralis, a single specimen feeding by 

 daytime on ragwort flowers. Agrotis vestigialis (valligera), A. 



