290 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the wing, amongst other things, Hepialus humuli, Odonestis 
potatoria, Cymatophora duplaris, Toxocampa pastinum (only 1), 
Boarmia repandata, Asthena luteata, Acidalhia dimidiata (scutu- 
lata), A. trigeminata, Cabera exanthemata, Abraxas grossulariata, 
which several times deluded me into capturing it, until I 
recognised its flapping flight; Ligdia adustata, Melanippe 
unangulata, M. sociata, Scotosia vetulata, Cidaria fulvata, C. 
dotata (pyraliata). 
While on the subject of baits, I am glad to see Mr. Harcourt 
Bath, in the October number of the ‘ Entomologist,’ has 
mentioned sunflowers as another attraction, and I hope to avail 
myself of this bait another season. 
I should like also to notice some varieties bred this season :— 
(1) Cabera pusaria. Very white, the transverse lines hardly 
distinguishable, but on each fore wing a short broadish black 
streak, just above and parallel with the inner margin, and about 
halfway between the base and hind margin; there is also a 
black spot at the anal angle of each hind wing. 
(2) Arctia menthastri. A dark variety, having the black 
spots in the centre of the fore wings large, and amalgamated 
into two almost uninterrupted lines crossing the wings and much 
angled towards the hind margin; there are also five large and 
wedge-shaped spots on the hind margin. 
(3) Zygena fiipendule. The three pairs of spots are united. 
A few years ago I bred one yellow variety from a number of 
cocoons picked here. 
I have also a beautiful variety of Lycena corydon, female, of 
which I caught some numbers several years in succession at one 
particular spot, when living in Wiltshire. The ground colour of 
the wings is silvery blue, as in the male, but with the normal 
hind-marginal row of spots on both fore and hind wings. The 
underside of the wings is the usual colour of the female, but in 
specimens the spots vary, coalescing and forming long streaks. 
I have now only four specimens of this variety left, and- I went 
down this year, and once before, to get some more, if possible, 
but I was unsuccessful on each occasion, the day turning out 
badly, and hardly a butterfly on the wing or to be found at rest. 
Looking through my lst of captures, I find that during the 
six years I have been here I have caught, within a range of two 
or three miles, 335 species of Macro-Lepidoptera, comprising 
