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ill good coudiuoii ill ihe beecli woods, from the begiuniug of June Lo end of 

 July ; and Abraxas ulniata swarmed by hundreds in the same place. Sugar 

 produced practically notliing the whole summer through except Grammesia 

 triUnea, which has not occurred here before. A few Mmoa euphorbiata 

 were knocked up out of the undergrowth in the woods. Poli/ommatus adonis 

 was taken on May 16th, on the hills, and Neineophila plantarjinis was 

 flying briskly iu the sunshine over the rough ground. Several Toxocampa 

 pastintun were attracted by a light held opposite a quarry, and others were 

 netted flying in the long grass iu company with Riidna tenebrosa, Phibal- 

 apteryx tersata, P. vitatbata, and Cidaria pijraliata. On July 27ih I un- 

 expectedly roused two Boannia abletaria irom the firs; they were rather 

 worn, and easily caught. At Oakley Wood, Cirencester, on Aug. 7th, a 

 perfect Geometra papilionaria was captured by accidentally thrusting the 

 net into some nut bushes, where it must have been hanging to the leaves. 

 Some rather worn Argynnis paphia and A. adippe were netted, and Drepana 

 unguicula, Strenia dathrata, and Asthena bloineri were beaten from the 

 bubhes. At light, for which 1 simply have a very strong lamp at a window 

 overlooking the garden to serve as a moth-trap, very few things were taken 

 until August, when Ileliophobas popidaris and Luperlna testacea came iu 

 hundreds for about a fortnight, and a few L. cespitk were intermixed with 

 tliem. Cilix spinula, Ennomos canaria, E. angularia, Crocallis elinguaria, 

 Pkibulapteryx vitalbata, Anchocelis lunosa, and others were also taken. In 

 November a few Petada cassinea were attracted, and later on, PcecUocainpa 

 populi ; but after taking five of the latter one warm night, no more were 

 even seen. Ivy bloom has not been at all productive here. Last year 

 almost every head had some welcome visitor. This autumn nothing turned 

 up of note ; indeed, one Xanthia gUvago and two or three Cerastis spadicea 

 were the only insects taken. — C. J. Nash ; Standish Vicarage, Stonehouse, 

 Gloucestershire. 



Insects at Light during 1894. — Bearing in mind the popularity 

 with which my previous record of " Insects at Light " was fortunate 

 enough to meet, 1 have again drawn up a list of the season's captures by 

 that method, and am pleased to find the number of Lepidoptera exceeds 

 that of last year by, roughly, fifty or sixty species, which appears as though 

 this were not so inferior a season for entomologists as the majority of 

 correspondents would have us believe ; some of these, however, are Micros. 

 As before, 1 will give two lists, that the respective merits and demerits of 

 lamps and electric light may be fully appreciated, bearing in mind, however, 

 that the latter is situated in the centre of the town, and the other light 

 records are chiefly street-lamps in the outlying districts, though some are 

 at indoor light, and others at lamps in woods. Ipswich is situated on the 

 banks of the Orwell, and so low in a valley, with hills on every side, 

 excepting where the river winds through water-meadows to Stowmarket, 

 that the electric light may be seen on a dark uight from these hills, often 

 two, and, sometimes, a white glare in the sky three miles out. How far it 

 is capable of exercising its fatal attraction, of course, I do not know, but, 

 from the almost invariably bad condition of the moths when they do at last 

 reach the light, I think a considerable distance. At electric light I have 

 personally seen or taken the following species this year: — Sphinx ligustri, 

 tSmerinlhUs popiUi, Lithosia lurideolcl, Arctia caia, Spilosoma lubricipeda, 

 S, menthastri, Porthesia siinilis, Bombyx neustria, Rumia luteolata, Epione 

 apiciana, Selenia bilunaria and var. juliaria, Odontopera bidentata, Cro- 



