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Leptdoptera at Chichester and Neighbourhood. — My collecting 

 did not begin much before the end of May ; ray first captures being Hemero- 

 phila abruptaria, Coremia ferrugata, and the first brood of Cilix cfJaucata 

 (spinula), Enpithecia exiguata and Phihalapteryx vitalhata. Melnmppe 

 rivata proved most tiresome from their abundance. Antidea ruhidata 

 appeared in my breeding-cage on June 7th, and was met with first on the 

 wing on June 14th — fully a month earlier than usual. When bred in 

 large numbers it will be seen that the insect varies considerably, some 

 specimens having a bronze or brassy tint, some are pale, almost whitish, 

 and whilst the ruddy colour in some is very bright, in others it almost 

 approaches a brown hue. During this month ray captures were homaspUis 

 marqinata, Asthena luteata, Melanippe procellata, Plusla chrysitis, Leucania 

 pallens, L comma, and AmpJiidasys hetularia. Timandra amataria and 

 AcidaUa imitaria were both common. The first TJropteryx samhucata 

 I saw was on July 3rd. The next day I had the good fortune to capture 

 a fine Aventia flexiila at Singleton, about six miles distant. Melanthia 

 bicolorata irubiginata) appeared early in the month, and in the same lane, 

 where Inula dynenterica grows abundantly, EbuJea crocealis was common, 

 also Hemithea thymiaria. On the 18th of this month I took at Singleton 

 a good variety of AcidaUa aversata, Cosmia trapezina, Lycana astrarche 

 (agestis), Strenia clathrata, Lithosia complana, and Eubolia bipxinctata. 

 The next day I found Leucoma salicis on a wall surrounding some poplars, 

 where at times I meet with the larvae and pupae in some numbers. On the 

 29th Triphmia interjecta was captured, and at light Evpithecia coronata, 

 Pyralis glaucinnlis, and Paraponyx stratiotalis, Agrotls puta, Cilix glaucata, 

 and Pyralis fimbrialis. On Aug. 1st, Leucania impiira, and on 16th 

 Eiipitliecia centaureata and Cilix glaucata came to light, and larvae of 

 Acronycta aceris were found on sycamore. During this month my visitors 

 to sugar comprised Amphipyra pyramidea, Agrotis puta, A. saucia, Noctua 

 plecta, Apamea didyma (oculea) (very variable, several quite black, var. 

 leucostigma), Cosmia dijfinis, C. affinis, C. trapezina. Mania maura, Catocala 

 nupta (abundant). Amongst the C. nupta was one with very light lurid 

 vvings inclining to yellow ; on the right wing particularly, and another with 

 the hind wings a light pink — a very pretty colour. On the 16th a fine 

 Eugonia fuscantaria was taken at light, and during the month ^es/)er?a 

 comma was met with at Kingly Vale. On Sept. 3rd a Timandra amataria, 

 a female, apparently just out from the pupa, was captured at sugar, and 

 several specimens of Xarithia gilvago, with the much commoner X.fulvago 

 (cerago). Two specimens of Sphinx convolvuli, in poor condition, and au 

 imago of Acherontia atrnpos were taken in the last week of the month. 

 On Oct. Ist Xylina semibrunnea, Scopelosoma satellitia, Orthosia lota, and 

 0. macilenta came to sugar. The miserably cold, wet, and tempestuous 

 weather has quite put a stop to sugaring operations for the present at 

 least. — Joseph Adderson, Jun. 



Insects at Light during 1895. — Again I am pleased to be able to 

 set forth, perhaps for the last time since the incandescent gas has just 

 come into vogue throughout Ipswich, the respective merits and demerits of 

 electric light, as compared with those of gas-lamps, as an attraction to 

 insects. I will not again give a full list of Macro-Lepidoptera, as I have 

 in previous years monopolised much valuable space, but merely mention 

 those species not before recorded. 



The following have been added to the electric light list : — Smerinthus 

 ocellatus (only previously seen), Chcerocampa elpenor, Zeuxera pyrina, 



