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all our old notions of propitious weather or atmospheric influence 
were completely upset, as during our stay, with one night excepted, 
we had a bright moonlight and cloudless sky, up to a perfectly 
full moon, shining brilliantly on to our sugar patches. No matter 
which way the wind blew—north, east, and west—or if none at 
all, moths abounded just the same; there they were fighting for 
places, and we could only come to the conclusion that, as Lord 
Dundreary would say, ‘‘ It was one of those things no fellow could 
understand.” 
We were favoured with splendid weather; day after day we 
had bright hot sunshine, and in consequence the Diurni were in 
full force. I paid considerable attention to the butterflies, looking 
out for varieties, and was rewarded with three good aberrations 
of Argynnis selene; a fine form, with silver markings on the 
upper surface of the inferior wings, 1s exceptionally good, and 
unique, so far as my experience goes. The markings are three 
quadrate spots, identical in pattern on each wing. It was very 
readily detected, even on flight. I also obtained an extremely 
good var. of Syrichthus alveolus. 
Aided by such grand weather, captures day after day utterly 
beat our powers of setting, and for myself, nolens volens, I had to 
bring home a number of unset specimens. Night after night we 
were forced to leave lots of species that ordinarily would have been 
duly boxed. Aplecta herbida, in magnificent condition, six and 
eight on a tree, were left feasting; we could have taken hundreds 
of it. ‘ 
Of the Diurni, we captured or saw twenty-six species. Pieris 
brassice, P. rape, and P.napi; one good var. with bright canary- 
yellow under wing and tip of fore wing. A. cardamimes was 
fairly common; G. rhamni (tattered) of both sexes. Colias edusa 
we saw most days, sometimes .several; evidently it is to be an 
edusa year, like 1877. Argynnis euphrosyne, mostly wasted, and 
A. selene were plentiful and fine, although they rapidly got out of 
condition, and mostly wasted by end of our stay; a week earlier 
would have been better. Melitea artemis, one male only, and I 
saw one other that had been secured in the well-known White- 
field; M. athalia were distributed all over the wooded district, 
nowhere abundant. Vanessa atalanta, a few, whilst V. cardui 
were everywhere ; Satyrus megera and S. tithonus ; Canonympha 
pamphilus, abundant ; Polyommatus phleas, a few only. Lycena 
agestis, L. alexis, L. adonis, and L. alsus, all common; L. argiolus 
was reported, but we did not meet with it. Of the skippers, 
Syrichthus alveolus, Nisoniades tages, and Hesperia sylvanus, all 
in abundance. 
Of the Nocturni, eighteen species were observed or captured. 
Macroglossa fuciformis was fairly common over Ajuga reptans ; 
one M. stellatarum only seen at Kastbourne. Ino (Procris) statices 
ana a very small form of Zygena trifolii were both fairly common 
