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for daily, and secured in all thirty-four fine specimens; I totally 

 failed to obtain eggs from any of my captures, but a friend I had 

 taken to the locality, and showed him how to work this species, 

 fortunately got two pairs in copula, and from them he obtained 

 ova ; from these I have now a few larvae feeding. I secured what 

 I have every reason to hope will prove a good take of Diantlioecia 

 alb'unacula larv<e, from the coast near Dover. Folkestone Warren 

 produced a few Acidalia strigilata, from which I obtained a good 

 batch of ova; the larvae are now feeding on Clematis. Botys 

 lancealis occurred sparingly, as did Eupithecia suhumbrata. 

 Emmelesia alhulata swarmed in places, and wasted specimens of 

 Procris glohularics were flying in the hot sunshine. I sugared twice 

 only ; common sand-hill Noctuse were abundant, but nothing of 

 any note was taken, though the general captures were interesting. 

 The coast-line from Folkestone to Ramsgate is all splendid 

 entomological ground, great rarities turning up when least 

 expected ; but I have never had such a take of gems as I had on 

 this ground in 1877, although I have worked the locality 

 thoroughly each year since. — W. H. Tugwell. 



Lepidoptera at Llandudno. — Being at Llandudno from 

 July 14th to 28th I paid a little attention to the Lepidoptera of 

 the district; but as my health was not good at the time, not so 

 much as I otherwise should have done. On two days I visited the 

 Penmaenmawr mountains in the hope of finding A cidalia contiguaria, 

 but was quite unsuccessful, although on the right ground for it. 

 I believe the species has never been searched for at night, but, 

 from the nature of the ground, I think it most likely that if 

 searched for with a lamp, in the same way that other species of the 

 genus are collected, it would be taken in great numbers. Had 

 there been a sufficiently late train back to Llandudno, I should 

 certainly have tried the method. The mountains yielded Larentia 

 ccesiata in abundance, and Gnoplios ohscurata and Cidaria 

 popidata less commonly, with two common species of Scoparia ; 

 but little else. Eight or nine species of butterflies occurred in 

 the district, but noiie of any rarity : Satyrus Semele was perhaps 

 the most abundant species, occurring in great profusion on the 

 Great Orme's Head and other mountains, and less commonly on 

 the sandhills, where, too, a large bed of nettles was almost black 

 with the full-fed larvte of Vanessa lo. The moths included 

 PsGudopterpna cytisaria, faded to a " white variety," on a mountain 



