NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 19 
Sphinaz convolvuli was taken at Rannoch this season by a non- 
entomological friend of mine. He says it has been taken there before. 
Double-broodedness of Eupithecia coronata.—L took a specimen on May 
14th, and on July 22nd I took another. On July 15th, 17th, and 18th I 
bred specimens of H. coronata from some larve which had been beaten off 
hawthorn in June.—W. M. Curisty; Watergate, Emsworth, Hants, 
December 13, 1891. 
Cavtures IN LANCASHIRE AND CornwaLL.—By the kindness of friends 
residing at Grange I was able to again visit Witherslack in the second week 
of July last. My object was to secure a series of Typhon, and in this 1 was 
successful, the butterfly being on the wing in large numbers; but what 
may perhaps be of more interest is that I found Hyria auroraria in 
abundance. In the following week my friends visited the moss again, but 
the insect had vanished. In September I spent a short holiday at Cornwall, 
staying at New Quay. I did not meet with much success in hunting, 
however, as my best captures were only three specimens of Anaitis plagiata, 
two measuring just under, and one just over, an inch and a half across the 
wings. ‘The specimens were thus smaller than those figured by Newman, 
and than the size indicated by Stainton; but as they belonged to the second 
brood this accords with Newman’s note.—W. Howarp Goutty; Wysefield, 
Romiley, Nov. 14, 1891. 
“Suear” versus Fruit as A Bair ror Lepipoprera.—The relative 
merits of “sugar” and fruit asa bait for Lepidoptera have many times 
been discussed in the pages of the ‘ Entomologist,’ but as I have seldom 
come across a greater contrast than is mentioned in a letter recently 
received from my friend Mr. Lachlan Gibb, now resident in Montreal, 
Canada, I think it desirable to put his experience on record, in the hope 
that some of our entomologists residing in fruit-growing districts may find 
a trial of his method of collecting to their advantage. He says:—“ I have 
done very well in Entomology. In ——— orchard, round the crab-trees, 
where the fruit is rotting on the branches, I have made a tremendous haul; 
by day nearly all the Graptas and Vanesside, and at night just as many 
Noctue as I liked to take, only requiring a light and several bottles 
(cyanide). Sugaring earlier in the season I found very bad, there being so 
much blossom over here.”—Rosr. Apxin; Lewisham, December, 1891. 
SUGARING A FAILURE IN Hampsaire.—Having noticed from time to 
time the different reports on sugaring this year, I might add that my 
experience coincides with several. I made two or three attempts at the end 
of June and beginning of July, but as the bait did not attract a single 
insect I did not repeat the experiment until near the middle of September, 
when there seemed some improvement, which induced me to renew 
operations. On the 20th of that month the weather was very stormy, rain 
falling in torrents the whole day more or less, and, if anything, was rather 
worse in the evening; so always having had good luck on such nights, I did 
not fail to sugar extra trees. On approaching the last one with my brush, 
I observed a considerable number of specimens, which were attracted by 
the sugar of the previous evening, evidently revived by the rain. I was 
very careful not to disturb them, and lit my lantern almost immediately, 
when I counted between twenty and thirty specimens on the tree, most of 
them being Phlogophora meticulosa, one or two Anchocelis lunosa, Xanthia 
Jlavago, Orthosia macilenta, &c., and two fine Xylina socia; the other 
