18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



September, I took a fair specimen of Laphygma exigua from 

 a street-lamp. I find that in this neighbourhood the lamps 

 often repa_y a visit. Among sundr}' things I have captured from 

 them, at odd times, I find I have taken Ennomos alniaria, 

 Deiojjeia piilchella, and Leucania vitelUna — R. Harbour; 1, Land- 

 port Cottages, Deal, November 24, 1880. 



Aplecta occulta near Whitby. — Towards the end of August 

 my brother and I were fortunate enough to catch two specimens 

 of Aplecta occulta, one in very good condition, at Whitby. — 

 C. Dashwood Snell; St. John's College, Oxford, Nov. 18, 1880. 



Abraxas grossulariata double-brooded. — In referring to 

 ni}"^ diary I find the following: — " November 1st, 1874, a friend of 

 mine, Mr. Holden, brought me three puppe and three larvse of 

 Abraxas grossulariata. He took them from a celery plant, and 

 there were neither gooseberr}^ nor currant bushes in the garden 

 where they occurred. The insects emerged from the pupae on 

 November 25th, but they were in no way different from the 

 normal type, except a little smaller. The three larvee died." — 

 W. Johnson ; G6, Upper Warwick Street, Liverpool, Dec. 8, 1880. 



[The late Mr. Chapman, of Glasgow, visited Ailsa Crag some 

 years ago, and found Abraxas larvae feeding in numbers upon 

 Cotyledon umbilicus. If we remember righth' they produced the 

 ordinary form of A. grossulariata. Of course navelwort is more 

 nearly allied to the Rihesiacecs than is celery. — Ed.] 



Notes from Ranworth Fen. — The last twelve days of 

 August I spent in the neighbourhood of Ranworth Fen. My stay 

 was not by any means a successful one entomologically, the 

 paucity of nocturnal Lepidoptera being very marked, and nothing 

 but common species falling to my lot. Although the weather was 

 on the whole satisfactory, I saw little or nothing on the wing, in 

 the way of moths. I sugared the alder-bushes by the " Broad," 

 and in other parts of the fens, with little success ; some nights, 

 although favourable to all appearance, yielding but few insects, and 

 many of those that did come were worn. Noctua xanthograplia 

 was on some nights a complete pest, and N. rubi pretty abundant. 

 I took a few AjJamea fibrosa, but not in very good condition, 

 accompanied by such species as Amphipyra tragopogonis, Mania 

 maura, and other species not worth naming. Two nights' 

 sugaring in a large plantation near the Broad at South Walsham, 



