172 THE ENTOMOLOGisT. 
appeared, and are now feeding on plantain. As regards the sallow work, 
we found as a rule that the first shakes gave the best results; and I am of 
opinion that if light were used as a means of attracting the Twniocampide 
it would prove remunerative. The absence of 7’. munda and the great 
scarcity of 7’. gracilis were certainly the remarkable features of our expe- 
rience at sallows this year.—Wittiam Hewett; Howard St., York. 
Sattow Brossom 1n Sussex.—From March 23rd to April 11th I 
worked the sallows about every other evening, and was rewarded by getting 
nearly all the Te@niocampas and a few other things. Pachnobia leucographa, 
six specimens. P. rubricosa, twelve. T'eniocampa gothica, common. T’. 
imeerta (instabilis), only two or three specimens. 7’. stabilis, very common 
and in great variety ; one specimen is extremely pale, with a slight tinge of 
pinkish, the markings being scarcely visible. TZ’. gracilis, six. T’. miniosa, 
twelve. T’. munda, twelve. T’. pulverulenta (cruda), very common. The 
weather during the greater part of the time was beautifully warm, but I did 
not notice many more moths than on some of the earlier nights at the end 
of March, when the weather was chilly and the wind in the north. The 
excessively bright sunny days brought out the blossom much too fast, and 
after April 11th I could not find a branch in blossom anywhere. Most of 
my sallows are in the copse woods, and are not very easy to work, as they 
are so crowded in with various kinds of small timber. When there are no 
convenient bushes, at the edge of rides for instance, I cut down branches 
and place them in suitable spots. ‘These are just’as attractive as the 
growing plant, but for one night only, and if you cut enough of them ; but 
it adds much to the labour of collecting. ‘The other species which I took 
at the sallow were:—Xylina socia (= petrificata), one. X. ornithopus 
(= rhizolitha), one. Xylocampa areola (= lithorhiza), one. Scopelosoma 
satellitia, a few. Quantities of Cerastis vaccinit (I noticed no C. ligula 
(== spadicea). Eupithecia abbreviata, two or three; &e.—W. M. Cunisty; 
Watergate, Emsworth, Hants. 
Morn Trars.—Since I described my trap, in 1890 (Entom. xxiii. 231), 
I have not heard of anyone else adopting tis very convenient arrangement 
for capturing moths. It seems a pity, because I find my trap so very 
useful, and Iam sure that many other collectors of Lepidoptera would do 
so also, if they had one properly constructed. Some traps that I have lately 
seen for sale, with only a round hole as an entrance for the moths, instead 
of a long aperture right across the trap, as mine has, are not a success I am 
told. During April my trap was catching twelve to twenty moths a night. 
It is always set without regard to weather, and is seldom empty in the 
morning. On one of the last days of April it contained about fitty moths. 
It went on satisfactorily until May 28th, on which night it took the unpre- 
cedented number of 107 moths, exclusive of Micros. ‘That night was a 
perfect one for light as regards weather, and so were the nights on each side 
of it, but they were unfortunately lost by bad management of the lamp. 
Since then I have had two takes of seventy and eighty moths, and never 
less than thirty. Twice, just lately, thirty-three species, exclusive of 
Micros, have been taken in the trap. Of the good things I have recently 
taken 1 may mention :—Sphina ligustri, | (it is so perfect a specimen that 
1 thought when I saw it this morning-that it had been taken out of one of 
the breeding-cages); Nola confusalis (= cristulalis), several ; Lithosia 
sororcula (= aureola), 1 (the only one ever taken here); Cilia glaucata 
