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tree, when, as before, all that came within reach were captured, 
and, at the end of this second melée, I had eleven in my net. 
After continuing this little amusement for some thirty or forty 
minutes I found I had filled all my boxes, and in one or two of 
them was a beautiful aberrant form of Coccyx splendidulana. 1 
should mention that this species remains quietly in the net, and 
allows itself to be boxed without fuss, unless the sun is shining, 
under which influence it is rather lively. It did not occur on 
either of the other two oak trees. 
At Mill Hill, in May, Procris statices swarmed in a field near 
the Midland Railway Station; a number of stunted plants of 
Lychnis jflos-cuculi grew in this field, and the Procris showed a 
predilection for the blossoms of these plants. Dicrorampha 
sequana and D. plumbagana were very abundant on a railway- 
bank also near the Mill Hill Station. 
In July, at Kingsbury, I observed Semasia janthinana flying 
in abundance over the tops of the highest hawthorn-hedges in 
the sunshine, about five o’clock in the afternoon ; this is another 
species I have never met with in any numbers before. Three 
specimens of Phtheochroa rugosana were captured as they sat on 
the bramble-leaves in a hedge bordering a field. I could only 
discover two small vines of Bryonia dioica, so possibly this was 
not the head-quarters in the district of either plant or insect. 
On an oak-tree in the same hedge I found an example of 
EHupecilia sodaliana, and was somewhat puzzled to account for 
its presence there until I met with a buckthorn (Rhamnus 
catharticus) bush on the other side of the field; I did not, how- 
ever, get any more of this handsome Tortrix. Grapholitha 
trimaculana was in such abundance that it would be no exag- 
geration to say that some palings were simply covered with it, so 
numerous was this species. Gelechia vulgella, G. luculella, and 
G. aleella, together with Ccophora lunarella, were all rather 
common on old palings and fences. 
At Box Hill Setina irrorella was plentiful, as also were 
Pyrausta ostrinalis, Crambus pascuellus, C. culmellus, Oxyptilus 
parvidactylus, Mimeseoptilus pterodactylus, and Aciptilia tetra- 
dactyla; and at Sanderstead, although Hupithecia sobrinata was 
quite as numerous as I have usually found it there, Chrosis 
rutilana did not occur nearly as freely as I have sometimes 
known it to do among the junipers at that place. 
