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continental authors seems to include a miscellaneous selection 
from Coccyx, Tr., Stigmonota, Gn., Catoptria, Gn., Endopisa, Gu., 
and Carpocapsa, Tr. From Grapholitha, Stephens, it is excluded 
by the structure of the palpi and the venation of the wings. Its 
most natural position seems to be between Endopisa, Gn., and 
Stigmonota, Gn., resembling the latter genus closely in the 
structure of the palpi. This, however, is but a crude opinion, 
and I should be glad to hear some of our older hands on 
the subject. Nothing certain appears to be known about the 
larva, Ononis spinosa and Onobrychis sativa being mentioned as 
probable food-plants. On the Continent it occurs in May and 
June, near Jena, Vienna and Wiesbaden, and in Hungary, 
Andalusia, and Southern Russia. 
24, Fleming Road, Lorrimore Square, August 6, 1883. 
WOLES “ON THE SEASON. 
By Epwarp A. ATMORE. 
Dorine last year, and the commencement of the present, 
entomologists residing in various parts of the United Kingdom 
were nearly unanimous in stating the season of 1882 to be a bad 
one for Lepidoptera; Macro-lepidoptera especially were repre- 
sented as scarce, and in this I concurred. I also observe, from 
notes which have recently appeared in the ‘ Entomologist,’ that 
some of your correspondents speak of the present season as 
being an unsatisfactory one; but so far I cannot complain of the 
paucity of Lepidoptera in West Norfolk; indeed, to say the least, 
imagines were plentiful up to the 10th of July, when a course of 
wet weather set in, which, much to my regret, still continues. 
Micro-lepidoptera have been especially numerous, several species 
of Tortricide being commoner than I have ever before ob- 
served them. Among the Macros the Noctue have been more 
abundant than usually is the case. Some exceptions to this of 
course there have been, and always will be; but there has been 
one great drawback to collecting, viz., the unusual plenty, and I 
might say unusual activity, of those little pests commonly 
known as “midges” (our country-folk are pleased to call them 
“‘midgeons”’). These insidious atoms on some evenings almost 
compel one—if “the weed” is at all indulged in—to keep up a 
