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May. Last year my specimens began to come out on 24th April ; 
the year before on the 21st of the same month; but this year, in 
the same breeding-case and the same situation, the first did not 
make its appearance till to-day (June 4), about six weeks after 
time. So, though not with quite so remarkable a difference, 
the Cucullia verbasct have been about a month later than last 
year.— Rev. J Cavre-Browne; Detling Vicarage, Maidstone, 
June 4, 1879. 
NorEes ON THE SEASOoN.—PyramEIsS Carpur.—I can fully 
agree with Mr. EKedle as to the abundance of this insect. 
This year they were so plentiful that I took them in the garden 
close to the house, but they only continued for two days, for the 
heavy rain and wind drove them away. ‘This is a very remarkable 
season both for larve and imagines. Larve that were abundant 
last year, such as Auriflua ceruleocephala and Hybernia defoliaria, 
are this year quite scarce, and T'eniocampa stabilis and many 
of the Geometers are plentiful. In May the little Noctua plecta, 
Plusia gamma, P. rota, &e., came to the raspberry blossom, and 
they have not turned up since. I used to capture them in August 
at the honeysuckle. On July 18th and 19th I was beating the 
oaks for larve, and to my great surprise captured Agriopis 
aprilina, and on the 20th my daughter found two Amphydasia 
betularia reposing upon the sweet pea; all were in splendid con- 
dition. Has the season anything to do with the pupe that they 
should emerge earlier or later than usual, and why after a great 
scarcity does the next year bring forth in abundance ?— 
S. Brappury; Abbots Bromley, July 22, 1879. 
NortHern NOTES ON THE Season.—F rom every quarter comes 
the same lament of “no moths; wet, cold, miserable weather.” 
Everything that does turn up is very late: just fancy Cidaria 
suffumata out on June 26th; this Suffwmata I shall remember. 
Being out mothing, and on a bridge which crosses a mountain 
stream, I was full stretch with my net on the end of my stick 
trying to reach an Argyresthia on a mountain ash, when down 
came all the rotten fabric and plunged me into the pool. As 
soon as I got breath from the cold shock I saw a moth under the 
bank, which was this Suffwmata, which I must have splashed out. 
The weather keeps so bleak and cold and stormy that it is 
difficult to find a sheltered corner. However, last Saturday I 
