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sunset, and in spring and autumn but few will be found after 
ten o'clock. Many species visit the sugar about an hour 
before sunrise in the morning. Sugar is almost useless in the 
neighbourhood of lime-trees when they are in bloom, and 
also when there is much honeydew. There is a row of 
seventeen lime-trees in the field adjoining my garden, and I 
have sugared the trunks for more than thirty years in every 
month, except the four winter ones,—November, December, 
January, and February. Upon these trees I have captured 
nearly every Noctua which occurs in this neighbourhood.— 
Henry Doubleday ; Epping, April 21, 1875. 
[I am sure entomologists will be much obliged to Mr. 
Doubleday for these notes. I believe his experience is 
greater than that of any other entomologist living. [f may 
add, as it is usual for every entomologist to keep a diary of 
his captures, that the publication of these diaries, or excerpts 
from them, would be of extreme interest; but they should be 
prepared in a systematic, and I need not say a careful, 
manner. I will give an imaginary day :—‘‘ May Ist. Wind 
light, $.S.W. Temperature, 65° Fahr.; inclining to rain. 
Sugared at Loughton. Captures....... The advantages 
of such diaries can scarcely be estimated too highly: coming 
from eight or nine hundred localities, not only would they 
show us the exact range of a species, but would also teach us 
when to expect it, and under what atmospheric conditions.— 
Edward Newman.) 
Description of the Larva of Eubolia peribolata.—The 
eggs were laid in a chip-box on the 18th September, 1874, 
and the larve left the egg-shells during the first week in 
October: they fed in Ulex Europeus (the common furze), 
almost exclusively on the blossoms, and after hybernation 
continued to feed until the end of April, when they had 
attained their full size; two or three have already spun up 
between the folds of some muslin in the breeding cage; two 
of the larve are now before me, full fed, yet exhibiting no 
change of colour or any disposition to spin. The larva rests 
in a perfectly straight position, but on being touched raises 
the anterior extremity, arching its back a little; its legs are 
then directed forwards, and closely appressed together, 
forming an almost continuous mass with the head. In crawl- 
ing it makes a very decided arch, bending the body nearly 
