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September. — At sugar: — Hadena protea (common), Noctua c-nigrum 

 (6), Catocala nupta (common), Agrotis saucia (2), Amphipyra pyramidea 

 (common), Phlogopliora meticulosa (4), Xinthia aurago, X. fulvago (3), 

 X. cireellaris (common), Gonoptera libatrix, Plusia gamma (2), Leucania 

 pallens, Anchocelis lunosa (4), A. litura (common), A. pistacina (common), 

 Polia flavicincta (9), Cerastis spadicea (2), Xylina semibrunnea, Tliera 

 simulata, Cidaria russata. 



October. — At sugar: — Xylina semibrunnea, Polia flavicincta (4)-. At 

 ivy: — Orthosia macilenta (common), 0. lota (4), Cerastis vaccinii (common), 

 Miselia oxyacanthae (4). 



I also took a fair number of other EupitJiecue during the 

 season besides those named, which I have not with certainty 

 classified. Larvae of Abraxas grossulariata, Leucania Utliargyria, 

 and PortJiesia similis were very common. The season was 

 decidedly a late one. So far I have no reason to be dissatisfied 

 with the products of this neighbourhood. All I have mentioned 

 were taken in this parish, and all those at sugar on half a dozen 

 apple trees in my small garden. I used simply coarse treacle 

 with a little rum, and have never been more successful. 

 Chalfont St. Peter, Slough, February, 1887. 



NOTES ON THE NOTODONTID^E. 

 By the Rev. Bernard Smith. 



Without difficulty there is no interest ; and that is why, 

 perhaps, I like the Notodontidae ; for it is a drawer in one's 

 cabinet not easy to fill. Last year we turned up in this district 

 Notodonta trimacula [dodonea), N. trepida, N. dictceoides, and 

 some others, which of late had disappeared. 



I wish to advocate looking for the ova of this class, not 

 excluding, of course, the young larvae. Without this course we 

 should hardly find the maple Prominents, Ptiloyhora plumigera 

 and Lophopteryx cucalla ; at least this was the way I found them ; 

 and, as I feel dissatisfied at so few being found elsewhere, I 

 propose to furnish some particulars which may lead to their 

 discovery. First, about P. pliunigera, as I believe myself to 

 have turned up this insect here about 1854, after it had not been 

 taken in England for some fifty years, I have pleasure in recording 



