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(common), Cerigo inatura (rare), Mamestra brassicce, Apamea didyma (very 

 common and varied), Miana strigilis (common), Grammesia triyrainmica 

 (common, beginning of June), Rusina tenehrosa, Agrotis se/jetum, A. excla- 

 mationis, Noctua plecta, N. c-nigrum, N. /estiva, N. rubi, N. xanthographn 

 (very common, but only seen for a week or so), Triphnna fimbria (rare), T, 

 coOT^A' (common), T.pronuba (hundreds), Amphipgra pgramidea (common), 

 A. tragopogonis (swarms). Mania typica, Orthosia macilenta, Anchocelis 

 rufina, A. pistacina (common and varied), A. litura (common), C. vaccinii, 

 Scopelosoina satellitia (very common in October), Xanthia fulvago, X. 

 aurago (common on Ocr. 1st), X. circeUans (in great numbers), Calymnia 

 trapezina, C. affinis (rare), Miselia oxyacanthm, Agriupis uprilina, Euplexia 

 lucipara, Phlogophora meticidosa (common), Aplecta prasina (rare), A. 

 nebulosa, Hadena protea, Calocampa exoleta (rare), Xylina ornithopus (very 

 common in October), Boarmia repanduta, lodis lactearia, and Campto- 

 gramma bilineata. Most of my sugaring was done on the edge of an oak- 

 wood which lies at a considerable height above this village. I used 

 methylated spirit instead of rum to mix with the treacle, and found it 

 answer admirably, insects being much less skittish than when rum is used. 

 — R. W, Fitzgerald ; Uley, Dursley, Nov. 2nd, 1895. 



Notes on Crambites, 1895. — Cr ambus falsellus bred from pupa found 

 in a silken cocoon among Tortula intermedia, at Sandy, Beds, the 

 beginning of June; imagos at Skegness, July. C. pratellas common at 

 Sandy and Ely, June and July. 0. hortuellus, Skegness and Southend in 

 July; larva in moss at Waterhead, Cambs, in May. C. cidmellus, 

 Southend, July. C. tofiiirms, Skegness, August. C.perlellus, Southend, 

 July. C. selasellus, Stuntney Fen, Ely, and one at Skegness, July. 

 C. tristelius, common at Ely end of July ; also Skegness, plentiful iu 

 East Fen, Lincolnshire, August. Chiio phragmitellus, Ely. Schcenobius 

 mucroneUus. Ely, July. S. furficellas, by side of ponds near Skegness, 

 July. HomcBosoma bincevella, Southend (one), July. Pempelia palumbella, 

 Skegness, Atigust. — Albert H. Waters ; Devonshire Road, Cambridge. 



Notes from Shropshire. — My son caught a specimen of Vanessa 

 c-album, which he brought to me, in a garden here, on Sept. 23rd. He 

 saw two or three others, but was unable to capture them. On Friday, 

 Sept. 27th, I took another in the same garden, but saw no others. 

 The next day, Sept. 28th, I spent the whole morning searching in 

 various gardens for this butterfly, but in vain. There were lots of plums 

 lying about, but not a single specimen of V. atalanta or V. c-album could I 

 see, although the former species had been very abundant a few days 

 previously. Three V. unices were the only Vanessse I saw. The day was 

 Very hot and sunny, and Pieris rapm was very numerous. I imagine the 

 Vanessse had gone into hybernation; possibly this early move was due to 

 the abundance of fruit enabling them to lay in sufficient stores more 

 rapidly than usual. — F. C. Woodfokde ; Market Drayton, Salop, October 

 20th, 1895. 



Notes on the Season. — I have not had as many opportunities as 

 usual during the past season of getting out after Lepidoptera, but on each 

 occasion that I did so I was struck by the absence of even some of the 

 usually common Diurni. I paid several visits to Abbott's Wood, Polegate, 

 but there was hardly anything to be seen except a few Epinephele ianira 

 and LyCfBna alexis. Melitaa athalia was very scarce, and so was Thecla 



