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was very common, and Macilenta had just put in an appear- 

 ance ; Lunosa was passing off, and being replaced by 

 Pistacina, which was just emerging from the pupa state; 

 Litura was very fine; Proteus just showed itself; Semi- 

 brunnea and Petrificata were both represented ; Vaccinii and 

 Spadicea were as yet rare, and Meticulosa was not common ; 

 whereas Oxyacanthae, Segetum and Suffusa, so common the 

 season before, had not yet arrived. 01" Segetum I had bred 

 specimens, which emerged in the spring, and others which I, 

 at the same time, took at sugar; thus, I think, clearly 

 proving that there are two broods of this insect. 



Considering the short time, and other unfavourable circum- 

 stances, I was not by any means dissatisfied with my 

 excursions to the ivy, as I took about two hundred good 

 insects during the few evenings I was able to attend to them. 

 Up to this year 1 had never done much with caterpillar 

 rearing. During May and June I collected hundreds by 

 beating, and, like most amateurs, found that many of my 

 captured ones were cannibals. Beside numbers which I did 

 not know, I took Thecla Quercus in Dinmore Wood; 

 Lanestris and Neuslria were very common ; Verbasci occurred 

 in considerable numbers ; Trapezina was most deceitful, 

 displaying qualities of the lion and the lamb ; some apple- 

 trees were covered with E. Reclangulala; Lichenaria was not 

 uncommon; Cieruleocephala occurred everywhere; Flavi- 

 cornis, Aprilina, Pcecilocampa Populi, Thymiaria, Quercana, 

 and a number of others, were among my takes in the larva 

 slate. A day, about the middle of May, in a wood near 

 Wofferton, about seven miles distant irom Leominster, was 

 among my best for the Diurni; Lucina and Euphrosyne 

 were very common ; Selene, afterwards so plentiful, was just 

 coming out; Tages and Alveolus, Linea and Sylvanus, were 

 common; Glyphica, Mi and Arbuti were all in their glory; 

 Maculata was just out; Euphorbiata, Atomaria, Marginata, 

 Palumbaria, with many others, tolerably abundant; on an 

 elm the larvae of Thecla VV-Albnm were feeding; and one 

 specimen of Sesia Culiciformis occurred. As already recorded 

 in the 'Entomologist' I look a specimen of Cynipiformis, 

 near Leominster, the year before, both, 1 believe, new to the 

 neighbourhood. During the year I look a few Noctuas at 

 rest on trees and palings; Leporina occurred sparingly on 



