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the month and at the beginning of May Cidaria suffwmata and 
Anticlea derivata were more than usually abundant. I was much 
surprised on the 2nd of May to find a Chesias obliquaria out in 
the breeding-cage; I have never had it out before until the end 
of the month. During the second week in June Thanaos Tages, 
Syricthus alveolus, Huclidia glyphica, LH. Mi, and Ephyra omicro- 
naria were swarming. On the 25th I captured Leucophasia sinapis, 
Melitea Artemis, Epione advenaria, Selenia lunaria, Asthena 
Blomeraria, and Procris Geryon, all in good condition, and all very 
scarce, with the exception of M. Artemis. Mr. Edwards and I 
managed, however, to fill our boxes with Minoa euphorbiata and 
EF. omicronaria, which flew from every bush. On the 30th of June 
I made an expedition after Lycena Arion, meeting with eight; 
this is about a week earlier, I think, than the first recorded 
capture by a former correspondent this season. On the same day 
I found Ephyra trilinearia very common, but mostly worn. 
Lycena Argiolus and Thecla rubi were also about, but in bad 
condition. Platypteryx unguicula completed my day’s work. After 
the 11th of July Timandra amataria and Cidaria dotata were more 
than usually common, and towards the end of the month the same 
remark applies to Cidaria pyraliata and Hemithea thymiaria ; on 
the other hand Asthena sylvata, Nemoria viridata, and Acidalia 
umitaria, never turned up at all. Ligdia adustata was common 
from May till the middle of August. As regards the Noctue the 
following, common in 1878, were almost, or entirely, absent :— 
Cosmia diffinis, C. affinis, Agrotis saucia, A. suffusa, Noctua 
C-nigrum, Mania typica, Catocala nupta, Amphipyra tragopo- 
goms, &c. With the exception of Mania maura I found no 
Noctue plentiful. As an instance of the lateness of the season, 
I may state that on July 28th 7. Tages and Argynnis Huphrosyne 
were still flying, Satyrus Hyperanthus was first out, and at the 
same time I captured a fresh specimen of A. Blomeraria ; and on 
December 6th Hybernia defoliaria were still coming out in the 
breeding-cages.—[Rev.] E. C. Doprez Fox; The Parsonage, 
Castle Morton, Worcestershire, December, 1879. 
Captures at Piumsteap, &c.—During the winter I searched 
for stems of Stachys sylvatica for larve of Ephippiphora nigri- 
costana, and succeeded in finding about a dozen, which emerged 
in June last. At the end of May, among other larve, I met with 
Geometra papilionaria and Phycis betulella in the wood, and, 
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