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fellows before assuming the pupal form. I might easily have 
taken ten times the number of L. quadra, but considered those 
collected sufficient for myself and friends. On August 2nd, at 
Lindo Common, near Stockport, Hyria auroraria, Crambus 
margaritellus, and C. Warringtonellus were flying and in good 
condition. On the 9th, near Chat Moss, I found Cucullia 
chamomille feeding on the flowers of the devil’s daisy, and 
exposed to the mid-day sun. The markings of the larve bear a 
striking resemblance to the calyx of the flower upon which they 
rest. At Cleethorpes, in Lincolnshire, on August 23rd, Nonagria 
Elymi was worn, Agrotis precox just out, and the larve of 
Cherocampa porcellus and Macroglossa stellatarum were plentiful 
upon the bedstraw growing on the sandbanks along the shore. 
Agrotis valligera was to be taken at the flowers of the sea-holly. 
Pyrameis cardw and Plusia gamma were in profusion. On the 
30th, at Greenfield, in Yorkshire, Chareas graminis, Heliophobus 
popularis, Larentia cesiata, and one Penthina sauciana were in 
good condition. On September 6th, in Sherwood Forest, Noctua 
glareosa, Amphipyra pyramidea, Cymatophora diluta, and Huperia 
fulvago were about the only insects at sugar except Noctua 
xanthographa. EH. fulvago came freely to sugar, after rain and 
when the ground was moist, but not more than five or six 
specimens could be seen when the ground was dry. On 
September 18th, Hydrecia nictitans, Celena Haworthii, and 
slightly-worn specimens of Carsia imbutata were flying on Chat 
Moss and some good larve yielded to the beating-stick. During 
the day I took a number of the following :—Smerinthus ocellatus, 8. 
populi, Dicranuravinula, Notodonta dictea, N.dicteoides, Platypteryx 
lacertula, P. faleula, N. camelina, Saturmia carpint, and Acronycta 
leporina, full fed with the exception of N. dictea and a few 
D. vinula, which were only half-size. So far I have found the 
present a tolerably good season, but several of the species 
enumerated were late in appearance. It will doubtless be 
interesting to have the experience of others on the subject.— 
Henry A. Autp; Blackheath. 
CapTuRES ON THE LincoLNsuIrE Coast.—With the exception 
of a little about Cleethorpes, hardly anything seems to be known 
of the Lepidoptera of the Lincolnshire coast; consequently, the 
results of a short expedition to Skegness, in company with 
Mr. C. W. Richardson, of Wakefield, dating from July 16th to 
