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was seen. During February I noticed, at night, an unusual 
number of larve of a Noctua unknown to me; so common were 
they that, if I had taken the trouble of collecting them every 
night, I could have obtained thousands; they were brownish, with 
paler lateral stripes, and two rows of black dorsal spots. Although 
I took over a hundred, and several formed cocoons, yet I got no 
pupe. I saw no Lepidoptera, except Tortricodes hyemana and 
one or two Hibernia progemmaria, tili the 24th of March, when, 
although the weather was very cold, the sun shone brightly; I 
then met with one specimen of Brephos parthenias. In a few 
days the weather became warmer, and Diurnea fagella then 
appeared. I noticed this year that a very large proportion were 
a very dark grey or nearly black variety, and venture to suggest 
that it may have had something to do with the damp winter. 
Brephos parthenias appeared more commonly in April, but was 
much more scarce than last year and much later in appearing, it 
having appeared on March 10th last year. I am afraid that the 
former circumstance was partly caused by the persecution which 
it suffered in 1882, as I heard that a dealer in entomological 
specimens took a considerable number. I took one Pachycnemia 
hippocastanaria at Shirley on April 2nd, and saw one or two on 
other days at the beginning of the month; and Lobophora lobu- 
lata appeared on the 8th. At sallows nothing appeared, except a 
very few T'eniocampa gothica, T’. stabilis, T. instabilis, and T. 
eruda. I took one Cymatophora flavicornis on April 5th, and 
Tephrosia biundularia appeared about the 12th; hybernated 
specimens of Cerastis vaccinu, one Calocampa exoleta, and Hupi- 
thecia abbreviata about the 10th; Fidonia atomaria, Hupithecia 
nanata, and Pachycnemia hippocastanaria (in great abundance) 
about the 25th. About this time I also saw one Anticlea badiata 
and a few Selenia wlunaria. I also took, by sweeping at night, 
large numbers of the larve of Scodonia belyiaria, mixed with 
those of Aspilates strigillaria. Tephrosia crepuscularia and 
Anarta myrtilli both appeared on April 80th, and continued on 
the wing for a long time after. I took A. myrtilld in great 
abundance on Shirley Hills in July. In May appeared at first 
only the April species, but later on appeared Panagra petraria, 
Adela viridella, Venilia maculata, Melanippe montanata, Argynnis 
euphrosyne, T'hecla rubi (one curious specimen of the latter I took 
with a yellowish white spot on the upper side of the fore wing), 
