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worn. These two were on sugar. On September 27th and October 1st 

 I took two L. extranea {unipuncta) on sugared foliage, both on the 

 same bush. They seemed so thoroughly to enjoy the sweets that 

 they had to be pushed into the box with the finger. Both were 

 beneath the leaf on which they were feeding. With the second I 

 boxed a rather worn specimen of L. albipuncta. The common 

 autumnal moths, with the exception of A. nigra Sund P. flavicincta, 

 have been very scarce. — Leonard B. Stopper ; Penryn, Cornwall, 



Thamnonoma brunneata in the Norfolk Broads. — The recent 

 captures of this insect in Staffordshire, Wicken Fen and Bishops 

 Stortford, as recorded in the August, September and October numbers 

 of the ' Entomologist,' are interesting, and it is evident that it is not 

 confined to the North. While staying at Horning with Mr. E. A. 

 Bowles in 1905 he captured a specimen which he knocked out of a 

 sallow bush by day. Is it not possible that it is a sallow feeder where 

 vaccinium does not grow '? — H. M. Edelsten ; Forty Hill, Enfield. 



Lepidoptera in Sicily. — During a fortnight's stay at Taormina, 

 between Messina and Catania, Sicily, from May 6th to 20th of this 

 year, I secured the following : P. ■podalirms, P. raachaon, P. biussiccs, 

 P. rapes, P. daplidicc, L. sinapis (1), E. cardamines, E. ausonia, G. 

 rhamni (1), G. cleopatra, L. Camilla (1), P. cardui, A. pandora (1), 

 M. cinxia (3), M. didijma (2), S. semele, P. viegmra, P. egeria, E. janira, 

 E. ida (2), G. pamphilus, T. w-alhum (1), P. phlceas,L. hmtica (2), L. 

 astrarche, L. icarus, L. cyllarus (2), S. alcece (1), H. thaiimas, H. 

 actcBon, H. sao (1). The species which were most scarce are shown 

 with brackets after them, the numbers given being the total taken, 

 and no others of these species were seen. In Sicily the season this 

 year was early, with dry and sunny weather throughout my visit. 

 Entomological pursuits were only secondary in my case, or the alcove 

 list of thirty-one species would undoutedly have been longer. In the 

 1897, 1912 and 1914 volumes of the ' Entomologist ' various notes and 

 articles on Sicilian butterflies were published, the number of species 

 therein recorded for the island being sixty-one, including all mine 

 above except T. w-albuvi. (In Malta, within eighty miles of Sicily, 

 only sixteen species are found.) The writer of one of the articles 

 stated that Taormina, although noted for its beautiful surroundings, 

 was a poor place from the collector's point of view. During my visit 

 no day-tiying moths were common except Syntomis phegea ; at night 

 numbers of small moths were attracted by an arc-lamp facing open 

 country just at the end of the town, but these were devoured by half 

 a dozen or more bats that continually circled about the lamp. It was 

 noticeable that any moths which settled on the lamp-column, walls 

 or ground remained untouched. The largest moths I saw attracted 

 were Deilephila livornica, which seemed able to withstand several 

 attacks from the bats, but finally fell to the ground stunned, where 

 the bats left them unmolested. — H. F. Hunt ; Senglea, Malta, Sep- 

 tember 14th, 1920. 



Sphecolyma inanis. — Having been on the look-out for this species 

 for some years now, I can feelingly congratulate Mr. Morley (p. 213) 

 on his capture. Mine, I hope, is to come. I presume he is aware of 

 Dr. Newstead's record (' Ent. Mo. Mag.,' 1891, p. 41) of the larvae as 



