THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XIX.) DECEMBER, 1886. [No. 283. 
NOTES FROM NEWBURY. 
By THe Rev. C. A. SuapEn. 
I nave not seen the flower of the hogweed or cow-parsnip 
(Heracleum sphondylium) mentioned as an attraction to moths, 
and I should like to add it to the list of attractive baits, though 
others I dare say have already found it so. My experience came 
about thus :—Wanting to get a series of Melanippe procellata, I 
had some little way to go to the nearest spot where the wild 
clematis grew, and along the sides of the lane by which I went 
the hogweed in places grew plentifully. Noticing moths 
apparently hovering over the plant, I began to examine the 
blossoms with my lamp, and was surprised to find sometimes 
two or three moths at supper on one flower-head, and to my 
relief, when I tilted the flower they dropped into the poison- 
bottle as quietly as possible. After this find, for two or three 
nights in the first fortnight in July, I turned my attention to the 
hogweed ; and though I caught nothing rare, I had the pleasure 
of taking my pick from a great number of moths. There were 
the following 19 species in plenty :— Leucania conigera, L. 
lithargyria, L. impura, L. pallens, Axylia putris, Xylophasia 
lithoxylea, X. monoglypha (polyodon), Apamea didyma (oculea), in 
its numerous forms, including the black variety with or without 
the white or yellow reniform spot ; Miana strigilis, M. fasciuncula, 
Caradrina morpheus, C. taraxact (blanda), Agrotis segetum, A. 
exclamationis, Noctua triangulum, N. brunnea, N. baia, Melanippe 
procellata, Phibalapteryx tersata. At the same time I caught on 
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