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I netted one Geometra papilionaria, unfortunately a male; and 
for one or two nights Eupithecia tenuiata was out in considerable 
numbers ; Phibalapteryx lignata and Scotosia rhamnata were both 
in good condition ; and Cidaria testata was so numerous as to be 
almost a nuisance. Of Noctuxe, Leucania phragmitidis was 
common, but L. straminea was not nearly so numerous as I have 
seen it; Nonagria despecta and N. fulva could be taken in plenty, 
the specimens of N. fulva being particularly well coloured; and 
Apamea fibrosa was very common. ‘The night of Wednesday, 
August 9th, was a perfect one for collecting, and I had a good 
time of it at Salhouse (a place a little above Horning) with 
Nonagria neurica, that night and the three following producing 
about forty specimens, although I am sorry to say the majority of 
them were rather worn. On the 17th August I again tried the 
Denes at Yarmouth, but the weather was bad, and as the grass 
in the best locality had been cut down I only took a few Agrotis 
cursoria. and some good specimens of Hydrecia nictitans. The 
larve of Papilio machaon were again common at Ranworth and 
Horning; I heard of one or two marsh-men having as many as 
five hundred each. Unfortunately these men are not very careful 
in their manipulation of the larve, hundreds being crowded together 
in a small box, and consequently large numbers of them perish 
before, or immediately after, assuming the pupa state. The pupa 
too is often subjected to the roughest treatment ; I had two dozen 
of a man at Ranworth, and from an examination I made of them 
I should think that certainly fourteen must result in cripples, even 
if they emerge at all. Larve of Smerinthus populi, Dicranura 
vinula and Acronycta megacephala, I found in profusion, together 
with a few Notodonta dictea, on the poplar trees, in the cemetery 
attached to the fine old church of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth. 
Had my health been better and allowed me to get out more often, 
the number of species quoted would have been considerably 
augmented.—G. R. Harmer; Conway House, Pembridge Sq., W. 
LEPmoprera AT EasTBouRNE.—Although I can record some 
few exceptions among the Diurni, Eastbourne has followed the 
general rule, and the scarcity of insects has been as proverbial 
here as elsewhere this season. On the Downs Lycena corydon 
swarmed, and those I took were unusually fine and very perfect ; 
I managed to secure about a dozen L. agestis, evidently just out, 
