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muralis, The common Crambites were plentiful. Peronea 
schalleriana, P. tristana, P. hastiana and P. comparana were beaten 
out of hedges: Sericoris littoralis was flying about the sea-thrift 
on the cliffs towards evening. Xanthosetia zoegana and X. 
hamana were met with in different localities. Depressaria 
alstremeriella was amongst the commoner Depressarie beaten out 
of thatch. D. wmbellella, D. heracliella, and D. subpropinquella 
came to sugar, and another Depressaria (very similar to the 
last named, but having a black thorax) which I have not yet 
been able to identify. Larve of Anesychia decemguttella were 
taken at Braunton Burrows on Lithospermum officinale. Pterophori 
seemed very scarce; the only ones noticed were Pterophorus 
bipunctidactylus, P. pterodactylus, and P. lithodactylus. 
25, Endsleigh Gardens, N. W., Oct. 17, 1883. 
NOTES FROM WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE. 
By V. R. Perrys. 
Tue season of 1883 in this locality has been anything but a 
brilliant one for the entomologist, although it opened well, and for 
a short period gave promise that it would continue so. All that 
I can now say is, that taking it all in all, it is somewhat better 
than last year, and this is certainly the greatest amount of praise 
I can bestow. Some insects no doubt have been met with in 
average numbers; some few, and that a very few, have been 
abundant; but, taking a general survey, they have become far less 
numerous than during what is designated an ordinary season. 
Many insects which are generally considered of common occurrence 
have been in very limited numbers about here, and a few might be 
said to be rare, so very few having been noticed that they really 
were conspicuous by their absence; and this was notably the case 
with some of the butterflies. Nevertheless some good and really 
scarce things have turned up, as is usually the case in what is said 
to be a “bad” season, and we have had quality here and there 
where numbers were wanting. 
But besides an inclement season, there are sometimes other 
causes which tend to reduce the numbers of insects in particular 
districts ; for instance, in a hilly country, as this is, I know that 
wholesale destruction must take place at intervals, which in the 
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