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possible before submitting it to the ordeal of the shower of 

 stones caused by going along the upper part. I always found 

 sticking to one bed, and searching it thoroughly, better than 

 going from one to the other. Strigilis, Exclamationis and 

 Segelum were nuisances, but a larger percentage, than is 

 generally the case at sugar, were things worth keeping. 

 The easiest moth to catch was Lucernea, nothing seemed 

 to move it from the flower. On one occasion I took a 

 large Newfoundland dog with me, and just as I was about 

 to bottle a fine Lucernea the dog brushed past, and bent 

 the plant to the ground ; when it sprung up, there was 

 the Lucernea on the flower; and even then, when I had 

 the bottle right over it, I had great difficulty in making 

 it go inside. — Edward B. Poidton. 



Grapta C- Album and Thecla Betula in Essex. — As Grapta 

 C-Album seems to occur very rarely in this county, I think it 

 worth while mentioning that a specimen was captured by one 

 of the sons of the rector of Mundon, about three miles from 

 Maldon, last year: it settled on a wheat-sheaf, in a field 

 opposite the rectory, and was netted off this. T. Betulae 

 occurs also in Mundon Wood ; and Antiopa, as mentioned in 

 the October number of the ' Entomologist,' has been seen 

 there several times. — G. H. Kaynor ; St. John's College^ 

 Cambridge, November 2, 1872. 



Late Appearance of T. amataria. — I was very much sur- 

 prised at taking two specimens of this insect very late in the 

 year: one on August 27th, and the other on September 1st, 

 both netted on the wing in the evening. In your ' British 

 Moths' (p. 84) you state that the imago appears about Mid- 

 summer; and Mr. Stainton gives the months of June and 

 July as the usual time for its appearance. Judging from the 

 condition, I should say those 1 took were decidedly a second 

 brood. — G. H. Raynor. 



Black Variety of Cabera pusaria. — In looking over my 

 cabinet I noticed a black variety of this insect, taken by a 

 friend, last June, in Darenth Wood, Kent. — Augustus Priest ; 

 16a, Merton Road, Kensington, November 11, 1872. 



Cerastis crylhrocephala at Darenth Wood, Kent. — On 

 the evening of the 28ih of last month, I captured at sugar a 

 very fine specimen of C. erythroccphala, at Darenth Wood. 

 — Geo. JV. Bird; 27, Hamilton Terrace, St. John's Wood, 

 N.W.y November 2, 1872. 



