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many years ago. Single examples of Apnmen vphiuijraiiinia, Hepialus 

 Jmmuli (formerly common enough), and Zeuzera cesculi were taken ; 

 also Phibalapteryx tersata. I first noticed Mania viaura, which is 

 common with us, on July 15th, and it continued in great abundance 

 into September. In August Pelurga comitata, Halia vauaria, and a 

 few Hepialna si/lvanus appeared ; also the second brood of Cyaniris 

 arf/iolus, about the middle of the month. Two boy-friends, who have 

 just begun collecting, obtained three larvae of Cerura bifida from 

 Brockley, which is about four miles from London Bridge. In Septem- 

 ber several Vanessa in were noticed at Lee and in Greenwich Park, 

 Among the visitors to treacle in this month were Ay rods sujfusa, 

 Hydrcecia micacea, and Catocala 7iiipta. — F. M. B. Carr ; The Choris- 

 ters' School, The Close, Salisbury. 



Notes from Romford, Essex. — I have simply done nothing here 

 this year, except at light, which was fairly productive. That was the 

 only way I knew whether anything was flying, as the species which 

 usually come to sugar put in an appearance at light instead. As for 

 sugar, it was hopeless. Up to the beginning of August not a moth 

 of any kind. For the first week of August a few Noctua a-anthoyrapha. 

 After that I cannot say what occurred, as I went for a holiday and did 

 not entomologize much. Since I returned home it is as bad as ever. 

 Even Anchocelis pistacina is only coming to light. Can anyone explain 

 this failure of sugar in a particular district? It is so all round here, 

 and it cannot be the quality of the sugar, as I used the same mixture 

 a few times at Weymouth, and plenty of moths came to it. — (Rev.) 

 W. Claxton ; Navestock Vicarage, Romford, Oct. 6th, 1902. 



Notes from the Chester District. — The chief features of the 

 season 1902 have been a low temperature and a lack, on the whole, of 

 insects. The only Lepidopteron which could be marked, in my experi- 

 ence, as plentiful, was Brephos parthenias — in Delamere Forest — in 

 March, but more especially in the early part of April. Twenty speci- 

 mens were taken, by day and night, on April 4th. They were found, 

 after dark, by the aid of a lamp, resting on birch, and one on sallow 

 bloom. May was chiefly devoted to a search for Antidea derivata, in 

 the hope of getting eggs. Night after night we plunged through the 

 mud-holes of King's Wood Lane — cold and often rainy the nights 

 were, and very different from those of last year — but the total sum was 

 a couple of examples, male and female, and, as the latter had already 

 deposited her eggs, the result was failure. 



There was fine warm weather in June and July, and Delamere 

 Forest saw us frequently. Ccenonympha davus was scarce, through 

 over-collecting, in comparison with last year. None of the specimens 

 I captured showed the large spots referred to last season (Entom. xxxiv. 

 p. 257), but some are very liberally and clearly spotted. Perhaps the 

 best is a female, showing a row of pointed spots on the upper surface 

 of the hind wings near the margins. In one part of the forest 

 district there is a nice and boldly-marked form of Ematurya atomaria. 

 My best capture in this line was a female, the prominent characters 

 of which are an unusually broad black band near and parallel with the 

 outer margins of both fore and hind wings, and a dusting, chiefly 



