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Collecting in Suffolk. — I had the pleasure of collecting in 

 the neighbourhood of Tuddenhara, in the early part of August, 

 and was very much pleased with the result of three days' work. 

 The following are my principal captures: — Acidalia rubricate/,, 

 abundant in one field, scarce elsewhere ; Agrophila sulphuralis, 

 eight specimens only ; Spilodes sticticalis, eight or nine ; Ptero- 

 phorus Icetus, over forty in very fine condition, nearly all on one 

 evening, just before dark. Catoptria citraria, abundant ; Anticlea 

 sinuata, three larvae on Galium verum, and larva? of Heliothis 

 dipsacea on low plants. I returned to town on the third day with 

 over 250 insects on my setting-boards. What a contrast to my 

 trip to the Isle of Unst, where I often had to work sixteen or 

 eighteen hours for six or eight moths. Upon my second visit I 

 spent all my time exploring in walking and driving. I inspected 

 several pretty fens on the River Lark, also Fordham, Chip- 

 penham, &c. I shall be very much surprised if we do not hear 

 of many rarities from this district, besides those already 

 recorded. — E. G. Meek; 36, Brompton Road, London, S.W. 



Nocture near Bromley, in 1884. — Noctuse round Bromley 

 this season have been very erratic in their appearance, and it 

 would be interesting to know whether other collectors in different 

 parts of the country have noticed the same peculiarity. As I did 

 not do any collecting during the early part of the year, I cannot 

 say what insects came to the sallows or to sugar until the 

 beginning of June ; but during that month and July I worked a 

 very good locality near this town, generally sugaring several 

 times a week if the weather was suitable. On June 5th one 

 specimen of Cymatophora or came to the sugar : in comparison 

 with the succeeding evenings in June this might be considered 

 very successful, as the usual result was absolutely nil, with some- 

 times one or two specimens only of such insects as Acronycta psi, 

 A. megacephala, Noctua /estiva, or Grammesia trilinea; the two 

 latter of these are usually very common here, but this season I 

 did not notice a dozen specimens of either species, and not one 

 Agrotis exclamationis. In a grassy field Leucania impura was 

 abundant ; and this, with Plusia gamma, was the only Noctua 

 which appeared during the mouth in any numbers. In July 

 I met with no better success, seldom seeing more than two or 

 three Noctua? at sugar on the same evening, and these were, 



