46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
turned in divers directions, almost every night from June to 
October. The result has been nil, with the exception, I believe, 
of one solitary gnat. Perhaps I have made some mistake in the 
management of it; if so, I should only be too glad to know how 
to rectify it. Ido not wish to detract from the trap any merits 
there may be; but having, so far, met with no success, and being 
at a loss to understand the reason (having a powerful reflector 
and lamp, and setting the trap on a wall about twelve feet high, 
overlooking my father’s grounds, and one would think in a very 
good locality), I venture to write to see if any of your numerous 
readers have met with any success in using it; andif so, how? 
—A. EK. Hatt; Norbury, Pitsmoor, Sheffield. 
AN ATTRACTION FOR Burrerriirs.—Two clumps of Sedum 
telephium in my garden have proved a great attraction to the 
Vanesside during the month of August. Although a small 
garden, within a short distance of paved streets, I have seen at 
one time one V. cardui, three V. atalanta, and half a dozen V. 
urtice on.the same plant.—H. Miniter; Ipswich. 
An EnromouocicaL Rip van WinxtE.—I am ina fix among 
my captures of last year; I have a few species of Tortrices, 
Tine, &c., for which I can find no description of in the books 
I have, viz., ‘Stainton’s Manual,—to my way of thinking the 
best book ever written to name species by, the ‘‘ tables” and 
short pithy descriptions are so much to the point,— Wilkinson’s 
‘'Tortrices, Newman’s ‘ Moths,’ and Stainton’s ‘ Natural History 
of the Tineine,’—thirteen vols. of this last, and I much fear we 
have had the last of that most valuable work, for it is now over 
seven years since I received my last vol. (alas! that it is so),— 
and the ‘Annual,’ too, has also stopped. Pray forgive my 
lamenting, but I feel something like an entomological Rip van 
Winkle, for I have been asleep, so far as insects are concerned, 
these last five and twenty years, and on waking up I find 
things changed indeed,—new names to old familiar species, 
others have got their own again, and— horror of horrors—black 
pins! They are ugly, have bad points that are weak and turn 
up, or very thick and blunt. Fancy pinning Nepticula and such 
like with them! No. 20 black pin has a point as thick asa No. 1, 
and then their temper—they have none; but they have done 
something towards spoiling mine! ‘hen an exchange list, almost 
