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Lepidoptera in North Devon. — I am very busy at sugar just 

 now. The common moths about here have not often been invited 

 to such repasts as I have given them. They are the most greedy 

 set of gourmands I ever met with. Aplecta lierhida is to be had 

 freely, as is also Apamea gemina, with Thyatira hatis and 2\ derasa. 

 The banded form of Boarmia repandata turns up now and then. 

 I take with the net Botys terrealis, Pterophoriis tepliradactylus, 

 and P. Zetterstedtii. Also two or three Eiipoecilia curvistj'igana. 

 — K. South; July 2, 1881. 



Lepidoptera at Plymouth. — We have not yet recovered the 

 wet seasons of the past two years with regard to Lepidoptera ; 

 one can walk miles in the woods around Pljunouth and not see a 

 single leaf eaten. I went out on Thursday and did two hours' 

 beating for larvse, and obtained two Amphydasis betularia. The 

 imagos of Lepidoptera are just as scarce. — G. C. Bignell; 

 7, Clarence Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth, July 25, 1881. 



Lepidoptera in London. — On several warm evenings in June 

 I have seen moths flying round the electric lights in the cit3\ 

 One of them I caught at rest on the wall of St. Mary Woolnoth 

 Church, at the corner of Lombard Street; it was Arctia 

 menthastri : this one probably came from the enclosure in the 

 Bank of England. I have occasionall}^ too, seen the males of 

 Orgyia antiqua flying in broad daylight in the Strand. — C. E. M. 

 Inge; 29, Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, W., July 4, 1881. 



Insects attracted by Electric light. — I have another 

 note to add about moths and the electric light. Yesterday, while 

 walking over London Bridge, I saw some workmen who had 

 just been cleaning out or repairing one of the electric lamps. One 

 of the men had a large moth in his hand, which was a small and 

 slightly damaged specimen of Cossus ligniperda. The workman 

 said that he " found a plenty of them sort up there " ; meaning 

 round the lamps. — C. E. M. Ince; July 6, 1881. 



Notes on the Season. — Although we certainly cannot 

 complain this summer of any deficienc}'^ of sunshine, and the 

 heat has at times been almost tropical, insect-life has been by no 

 means so prolific, at least in this district, as we might have 

 expected. In the spring the garden whites, Pieris Irassicfe and 

 P. rapcB, were more than usually numerous in the perfect state. 

 I did not notice a corresponding amount of larvae, and the 



