296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
A. tridens; A. Rumicis; L. lithargyria, plentiful; L. stra- 
minea; A. putris; X. lithoxylea; X. polyodon, dozens; 
A. oculea; M. strigilis; C. cubicularis; A. puta, a dark 
series; A. suffusa; A. saucia; A. segetum; A. exclamationis, 
dozens; A. nigricans; T. janthina; T. orbona and T. pro- 
nuba, dozens; N. augur; N. plecta; N. C-nigrum, common; 
C. Rubi; C. xanthographa, dozens; T. cruda; O. macilenta ; 
A. pistacina, dozens; A. lunosa, plentiful ; C. spadicea, a 
few; S. satellitia, common; X. ferruginea, common; P. flavo- 
cincta, dozens; M. Oxy acanthe, many; A. aprilina; P. me- 
ticulosa, common; X. lithoriza; C. exoleta; X. rhizolitha, 
many; X. semibrunnea, eight; A. Tragopogonis, common; 
C. nupta, three; besides a few Geometers and Pyrales. 
The interest attached to sugar capturing is certainly great, 
—something similar I should imagine, “ parva componere 
magnis,” to that of the sportsman in the East, who cannot tell 
what noble game may leap out of the tangled jungle at any 
step; so on a dark night, when the moth-hunter proceeds 
with “stealthy steps and slow” to the sweetened tree, and 
turns on the light, he cannot tell what almost unknown 
rarity may possibly delight his eyes and reward his pursuit; 
and even some of the more common insects—M. Oxyacanthe 
or C. diffinis, for example—appear, I think, more beautiful 
under the lamp than at any other time. I know that when I 
saw C. exoleta the other night, under such circumstances, I 
could not imagine what grand prominent I was beholding,— 
with his full crest and closely shut-up wings he was exactly 
like some important member of that family. 
But it is quite time that I should conclude this gossipy 
paper. Scientific entomologists and practical collectors may 
think it, | fear me, not worth the space it occupies. I trust 
there are some, like myself—collectors under difficulties— 
to whom this paper may afford some measure of encourage- 
ment when they see how much may be done with but limited 
means and space at command. 
Should there be a locality where A. pistacina and P. flavo- 
cincta are not plentiful, it will give me much pleasure to send 
any applicant a few, as long as | have any, if he will first 
send me a post-card. If he receives no reply he must 
consider that my stock is exhausted. 
Hi. W. Liverr. 
Wells, Somerset. . 
