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Noctuce. 



My captures were not numerous, as sugar failed. 



T. subsequa. One fine specimen flying by day, in Stubby. 



A. cinerea. One, at sugar on flower-heads, at Fresh- 

 water. 



A. lunigera and lucernea. Seven of each, at sugar on 

 flowers at Freshwater ; and some six other common 

 Agrotidae. 



Caradrina Morpheus, Alsines and blanda. At sugar, on 

 flowers. 



A. caligiuosa. Pretty common in Stubby, &c. 



T. tridens. At rest on fir-trunks, high up. 



D. Orion. One, at sugar. 

 L. Turca. Three, at sugar. 

 L. conigera. At flowers. 



N. despecta. In the bog at Freshwater. 



N. Geminipuncta. Pupae ; at Freshwater, near River Yar. 



H. dipsacea. Not so common as last year, 



P. V-aureum. Over flowers of Erica tetralix. 



T. Pastinum. On a bog at Freshwater. 



E. fuscula. Not uncommon. 



P. senea. Very fine, and particularly bright coloured. 

 In the families Pyralidae, Crambiles, and Tortricidae, several 

 good species fell to my net. 



PS. I had the good fortune to get a fine specimen of 

 Calosoma Sycophanta on the shingle, at Freshwater, after 

 a very heavy gale of wind and rain ; the tide had evidently 

 caught it, and half-drowned it. Not collecting Coleoptera I 

 have given it to a friend. 



W. H. Tdgwell. 



3, Lewisham Eoad, Greenwich, 

 Jiily 24, 1873. 



Description of the Larva of Lilhosia quadra. — Whilst 

 collecting near Lyndhurst, early in June this year (1873), I 

 beat off" the lower boughs of oak some larvae, as to the 

 identity of which I was uncertain, but conjectured, from 

 their general appearance, that they were larvae of some 

 species of Lithosia. About the same time my friend Mr. 



