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so that latterly it has become somewhat scarce. Calamia 

 phragmitidis, Hb., is common. Meliana flammea, Curt., is 

 plentiful at Wicken and Chippenham, as also are Coenobia 

 rufa, Haw., Tapinostolafulva, Hb., and T. hellmanni, Evers. ; 

 the latter has been taken at Shelford and Boxworth; at the 

 latter locality a specimen of Nonagria geminipuncta, Hatch., 

 was captured by Mr P. T. Gardner. N. arundinis, Fb., and 

 j\ r . lutosa, Hb., are both common throughout the Fens. The 

 most noteworthy of the Apameidae are Luperina cespitis, Fb., 

 occasionally taken in the west, Mamestra abjecta, Hb., which 

 is very scarce at Wicken, and M. albicolon, Hb., in the extreme 

 east of the county; Apamea gemina, Hb., A. unanimis, Tr., and 

 A. leucostigma, Hb., are common in the Fens, and A. ophio- 

 gramma, Esp., is not scarce on the banks of the upper Cam. 

 Miana liter osa, Haw., occurs sparingly, an darcuosa, Haw., plen- 

 tifully in many parts of the county. The Caradrinidae are well 

 represented; most of the British taken specimens of the rare 

 Hydrilla palustris, Hb., have been captured at " light " in the 

 fens, a few were taken in 1876 or 1877, not more than a dozen 

 odd specimens turned up between then and 1897, when about 

 half-a-dozen were taken, and in 1898 the captures numbered 

 about 50; the writer knows of only one specimen which has 

 been taken since. Agrotis obscura, Brahm., occurs at Wicken 

 and other parts of the county. Noctua stigmatica, Hb., has 

 become more generally plentiful in the last ten years, it is 

 common in some seasons in the west of the county. Most 

 of the species of this genus may be found in the county, and 

 all of Triphaena] a specimen of T. orbona, Hufn., = subsequa, 

 Hb., having been taken by Mr Alfred Jones at Chippenham 

 in 1892 and two by Mr Thornhill at Boxworth in 1903. 



Of the Orthosiidae and Cosmiidae, most of which occur, 

 mention may be made of Cirrhoedia xerampelina, Hb., which 

 is not uncommon near Cambridge and towards the western 

 boundary, and Calymnia pyralina, View., which Mr E. H. 

 Thornhill finds not uncommon in some seasons at Boxworth ; 

 it has also been taken at Wicken. 



