564 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW, 
pronuba, Linn., Hadena oleracea, Linn., and HLuplexia lucipara, 
Linn, Some of these Moths rest on the flowers and suck the 
sweets at their leisure. 
Of the Ivy I have not had much experience; but among 
English entomologists it has a great reputation. Here is what 
Sir John Lubbock says regarding it :— 
* ARALIACEE.—The only European species belonging to this 
order is the common Ivy (Hedera Helix). It is proterandrous, 
and is much visited by flies and wasps.” Nothing is said of the 
great numbers of Moths that nightly visit the plant while in 
blossom. I read recently in the Hntomologist the grumble of 
one collector who had only managed to obtain a dozen Cerastis 
spadicea, Hiib., and half-a-dozen each of Cerastis vaccinii, Linn., 
and Scopelosoma satellitia, Linn., as the result of an evening’s 
work at Ivy. Only 24 insects, and in the month of October ! 
In all my experience of Moth-collecting, I only once found a 
plant which does not yield nectar, attracting insects. That plant 
was the Elder, Sambucus nigra, Linn. In Wicklow, in 1892, 
I worked some bushes of Elder which grew on the garden wall 
of a ruined cottage, situated on the coast, two miles to the 
south of the town. The perfume of the flowers could be felt for 
a considerable distance. Noctuz (principally of two species, 
Noctua c-nigrum, Linn., and Hadena dentina, Esp.) were flying 
about the flowers in considerable numbers, even occasionally 
resting on them. Some nights later, at Drogheda, I tried Elder 
blossom without seeing a single Moth, and I have tried it 
repeatedly since with the same result. 
Honeysuckle (Lonicera Periclymenum, Linn.) is undoubtedly 
attractive, and emits a very sweet smell in the evening. 
Like the Bramble, it is difficult to work, owing to the situa- 
tions in which it grows, and I can only speak with certainty of 
two species visiting it, viz., Mamestra furva, Hiib., and Thyatira 
batis, Linn. The occurrence of the latter species at flowers is a 
little curious, for all its affinities are with the Bombyces, and the 
tongue does not appear to be very well developed. Although I 
only mention these two, yet I have seen many insects, evidently 
of many different species, at Honeysuckle flowers. 
By shining the lantern on the umbels of Heraclewm 
Sphondylium, Linn., while returning late at night from sugaring 
