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caught during a shower of rain. This was the only one seen ; 

 S. hyperanthes and S. semele were also taken. I saw Argynnis 

 paphia often along the high roads, but never saw any of the 

 dark variety. 



During the greater part of my stay, going round the flowers 

 at night constituted my collecting for moths. By this means I 

 caught Sphinx ligustri, S. pinastri, Choerocavipa elpenor, and C. 

 porcelliis, all at honeysuckle. Saturnia pyri was seen often, but 

 only one taken ; a batch of ova of this species, found on a 

 poplar-leaf, all turned out to be ichneumoned. I rescued a very 

 damaged C. elpenor from my killing-bottle one evening (June 

 24th), and kept her for ova; on the 25th she laid eight, which 

 was all I got ; these hatched on June 30th ; two died during the 

 skin changing; the rest fed up well on vine, buried during the 

 first week in August, and were six healthy pupae when I packed 

 them up on Aug. 25th. I also had ova from a C. porcellus (laid 

 in a chip-box on May 29th) : these took exactly a fortnight to 

 hatch (June 12th) and, feeding well on Galium, were all buried 

 by July 21st. It seems strange that whereas C. porcellus ova 

 take a fortnight to hatch, C. elpenor only takes five days ! Eu- 

 chelia jacohcece swarmed as larvae and imagines all the summer, 

 and Zygtpua trifoUi was very common in the hayfields during 

 June. From several larvae of Lasincampa qnercus I obtained 

 imagines from Aug. 9th onwards, and by means of "assembling" 

 got several males ; in fact, when I was bottling the female, a male 

 flew in at the window and followed her into the killing-bottle. 

 Males of EutJiemonia russula were common enough, and I also 

 got two females. Spilosoma menthastri, Arctia caia (common in 

 larval stage, end of July, hatched in September), A. villica, 

 Spilosoma faliginosa, and Diacrisia mendica were also taken, and 

 Callimorpha Jiera was caught by night and day, flying along the 

 walls against which fruit-trees grew. Some ova of C. hera laid 

 by the moth when on the setting-board Aug. 6th, hatched on the 

 18th, but never did any good. I bred a series of Porthesia chry- 

 snrrhoea from larvae on sloe, and later on found a batch of ova in 

 their warm covering on a hawthorn-leaf. Larvae of Ocneria 

 dispar were common on willow. Cossus ligniperda was taken at 

 sugar on July 24th. Acronycta aceris, A. rumicis, A. tridens, and 

 Actinotia hyperici were also taken at sugar in August, and Celcena 

 cytherea (matura) was in beautiful condition at the end of August. 

 Cuculliti umhratica and C. scrophularice were caught at honey- 

 suckle in the beginning of July, and Hecatera serena and Ma- 

 mestra caj)sincola at lavender. Bryoplula perla (at the top of 

 Tours Cathedral) and the beautiful B. (dgce (at sugar). Other 

 catches at suuar were : — Mania manra, Catocala nupta, Thyatira 

 hitt s, Aiiipliiptjra pyramided, Phlogophora meticulosa, Triphana 

 P'-'uinlia, 7'. (•■men T. fi hria. and T. i«inth>na. Agrotis segetnm, 

 A. exclai/iationis, A. c-nignvm and A. puta, Diptergyia pinastri 

 'scahriuscula), Mamestra brassicce, M. persicarice, M. genistce, M. 



