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state; but from some unaccountable reason, to my great disap- 
pointment, not one of the moths came out. I should be very 
grateful if some one could suggest the cause of the failure, and 
give me any hints as to the management which would prevent a 
similar misfortune another time. I have now four little larve, 
hatched on the 7th of this month (July), which appear to be doing 
as well as one could desire. I fear that the conservatory into 
which I took the pup in May must have been too hot, causing 
them to dry up. The larve of Halia wavaria were in some 
gardens quite a nuisance, stripping the leaves of the gooseberry 
and currant bushes, and with the sawfly (Nematus ribesit) causing 
some injury to these useful fruits. Acidalia incanata has not 
failed to put in an appearance. I have not yet tried sugaring, 
having such bad accounts from my friends as to its being quite 
useless to do so; and the Noctue that I have seen have been of 
the commonest description, only such species as Leucania pallens 
and L. impura, Hadena lithoxylea, &c., being met with. As for 
the Diurni—with the exception of a few Vanessa urtice, V. 
atalanta, and V. cardui (these last looking miserably worn and 
faded, as if they had seen two or three summers and winters), 
and some of the commoner “skippers ””—this district, at least, 
has been almost without them. Thousands of larve, doubtless, 
perished in the disastrous salt-storm of April 29th of last year, 
and the present dearth of insects is not much to be wondered at. 
To these few notes I may add that the larve of a sawfly, found 
by me on Veronica anagallis last November,—some of which I fed 
up, and which Mr. Fitch, to whom I sent them for identification, 
thought might be Athalia annulata, Fabr.,—produced perfect 
insects during May, and prove to be that species.—JosEPH 
AnpDERSON, jun.; Alie Villa, Chichester, July 20, 1883. 
Asgor’s Woop 1n Juty.—During the first week in July I 
paid a visit to Abbot’s Wood, where I had hoped to do some 
considerable collecting. Upon my arrival there I was surprised 
to find such a few species on the wing. The weather was all that 
could be desired: the sun shone brilliantly by day, and warm 
over-hanging clouds made the evenings look well for sugar. But 
the weather apparently had little to do with the scarcity ; for if it 
requires sunshine and warmth to cause emergence from the pupa, 
there certainly was an abundance of both at that time. The only 
member of the Diurni on the wing of any exceptional interest was 
