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great tits and the pupae eaten ; in one of these cases the cocoon had 

 been spun on a leaflet of the Japanese anemone, and the bird had 

 torn the part holding the cocoon right off and carried it to a distance 

 of three yards, where I found it on the ground. Has not this species 

 been taken in North Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or the Isle of 

 Man ? — C. Nicholson ; 35, The Avenue, Hale End, E. 4, January 5th, 

 1919. 



Sugaring. — Eeferring to Mr. Mayor's remarks (' Entomologist,' 

 li, p. 188) on this subject, may I commend to his notice a paragraph 

 by Mr. Adye in the ' Entomologist,' xx, p. 66, and my account of 

 an autumnal holiday in the New Forest in the ' Ent. Eecord,' iv, 

 pp. 10, 11. Mr. Adye recommends collectors to try windy nights for 

 sugaring, and I found the best night of my stay was September 27th, 

 when it was so windy that moths were nearly blown off the more 

 exposed trees. On the following evening, after a rainy afternoon, 

 everything was reeking wet when I set out for the sugaring-ground 

 about 6 p.m., a thick white mist came up, the moon soon shone on 

 some of the trees and the air was decidedly chilly, yet moths were in 

 considerable numbers on the treacle. I remember also in my young 

 days treacling a row of elm trees in a field at Clapton (Middlesex) 

 and getting nothing but crowds of wasted N. xanthographa, which 

 came to every tree although the moon was shining brightly at the time, 

 in some cases full on the treacle patches ! . To the best of my recollec- 

 tion I have rarely used anything but common black (green) treacle, to 

 which a little rum and a few drops of essence of jargonelle had been 

 added, and, I suppose, have had as varied results as most collectors. 

 I have gone home mothless on (apparently) perfect nights and done 

 well on occasions when the weather was everything except ideal, 

 and I have come to the conclusion that where flowers, honeydew or 

 some other opposition attraction do not obviously enter into the 

 question the regulating factor is not "weather," as commonly 

 understood, but something more subtle, such as the electric con- 

 dition of the atmosphere. I have treacled in a warm rain and had 

 no luck, but I cannot call to mind ever having tried my luck in a 

 thunderstorm, although I have often observed the apparently excep- 

 tional activity of moths on thundery evenings, both before and 

 during the storm. — C. Nicholson ; 35, The Avenue, Hale End, E. 4. 



PCBCILOCAMPA POPULI AND OTHER MoTHS AT ElECTRIC LiGHT. 



During a walk around the hospital just after dark on November 24th, 

 1918, I saw a number of moths resting upon a post situated under 

 the beam of light from an ordinary electric globe, which was situated 

 upon the outskirts of a group of huts facing the Moors. Upon close 

 examination they proved to be ten fine specimens of P. popidi, two 

 of them being females. With these were numerous males of Hybernia 

 defoliaria, H. aurantiaria, and Cheiviatohia brinnata. — Corpl. Hunt, 

 Microscopist, x\ttached A.V.C. ; Longmoor, Hants. 



Lepidoptbra of THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. — lam at present 

 trying to find out exactly what species of Lepidoptera have ever been 

 recorded from the Highlands of Scotland. This implies any locality 

 north of a line passing south of Arran, and through Dumbarton, Perth, 



