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zina, Huplexia lucipara, and Xylophasia polyodon came in countless 
myriads every night, with an occasional Mania maura or Leucania 
lithargyria ; Boarmia repandata var. conversaria also turned up 
twice at the sugar. 
Of miscellaneous captures we had a fair show. Once or twice 
Iaparis monacha and Calligenia miniata came down the riding 
where we had sugared, and were duly secured. We took one 
Geometra papilionaria, several Pseudoterpna cytisaria, a lot of 
pretty forms of Hnnomos erosaria, a pair each of Selenia illustraria 
and Tephrosia crepuscularia ; Aspilates citraria (at Swanage), 
Selidosema plumaria, Phytometra enea, Anarta myrtilli; two 
Bombyx quercus, one a fine female, which I netted, after a hot 
chase, close to Lyndhurst Road station; and one Platypteryx 
unguicula. 
After our bad luck in Sherwood, we were well satisfied with 
our spoil, our want of success with A. iris being our only cause 
for regret. The solitary capture recorded above constituted our 
only claim to the title of regicides. A very disreputable old male 
he was, too; still he was my first emperor; and seeing he was 
likely to die of extreme old age, I helped him on the road to dis- 
solution. But if this species is as common next season, may I be 
there to see. 
Worksop. 
NOTES FROM THE NORTH-WEST COUNTIES. 
By J. ARKLE. 
A YEAR ago, in a contemporary, I read of an entomologist who 
went in early July to Penmaenmaur, and who had the good fortune 
to take not only Agrotis ashworthu, but Acidalia contiguaria. 
Both species, if I recollect rightly, were taken off the rocks. To 
those unacquainted with the district, I may say that Penmaenmaur, 
Llanfairfechan, and Aber are on the line of rail which skirts the 
coast away to Holyhead. They are in Caernarvonshire, just round 
the Great Orme’s Head, and they command a fine view of Puffin 
island and Anglesey, which are just opposite, and of the entrance 
to the Menai Strait. The three places will be about two miles 
and a half from each other. 
Early in July of this year I went to visit an old friend from 
London, who was staying at Llanfairfechan for a few weeks. 
Speaking entomologically, the net was out of the question, for, 
independent of other considerations, the weather was dull and 
threatening, and the temperature not quite up to one’s expecta- 
tion for July. The conditions were, however, very favourable for 
rock-hunting, and every effort was consequently made to come 
across the two species of Lepidoptera referred to. 
The immediate features of the inland are, first, a belt of trees 
