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Day-work, like sugaring, was not what it should have been, owing 

 to the stormy weather (most particularly on Saturdays, my half- 

 holiday). But in spite of the weather I managed to net a few Thecla 

 rubi between the showers in May; and in June and July I took Anjynnis 

 selene. A, euphrosyne; MelitcBa aurinia (artemis), Erebia epiphron var. 

 cassiope, Coenonympha typhon (davus), Ino statices, Nemeophila plantaginis 

 (and var. hospita), Emmelesia albidata, Eupithecia nanata, Melanippe 

 hastata, &c. 



I did not get many day-flying Lepidoptera of any interest after 

 July, except Thecla guercus and numerous micros. 



I have found dull days to be the best for trunk- searching, and the 

 year 1902 not having been a sunny one, this mode of collecting was 

 more productive than in former years. In March Anisopteryx asmc- 

 laria, and in April Xylocampa areola and Lobophora lobidata were 

 taken. During May and June Lepidoptera were very numerous on 

 tree-trunks. Among the more noteworthy were Demas coryli, Tephrosia 

 crepuscularia, T. biundularia, Bapta temerata, and Melanthia albicillata. 

 After June I did not find trunk-searching very productive, although I 

 took Amphidasys betularia, Thera firmata, &c. 



The sallows, which in 1902 were very fine, were not workable 

 until the beginning of April, when they failed to attract Panolis pini- 

 perda in anything like the numbers taken in former years ; and 

 although TiBniocampa gothica, T. stabilis, and T. cruda were very 

 plentiful, Pachnohia rubricosa, TcBniocavipa instabilis, and T. gracilis weve 

 not so. 



Throughout the season working suburban gas-lamps was very pro- 

 ductive, especially in late summer and autumn. 



During 1902 certain species were more plentiful than in 1901 ; 

 among these are Diloba caruleocephalu , Hydrcecia micacea, Lxiperina 

 testacca, and Plusia gamma; while some species — Charaas graminis and 

 Noctna xanthographa for example — have been very scarce, although 

 last year they simply swarmed. 



Throughout the year I obtained many species by working flowers at 

 dusk and after. At patches of deadnettle (Lamium), just at dusk, I took 

 Habrostola tripartita, Plusia chrysitis, P. iota, and P. pulchrina. I also 

 found Carduus, Senecio, and Scabiosa very attractive to Lepidoptera, 

 both during the day and at night. Honeysuckle I have found most 

 attractive on nights when sugar has failed. 



I paid special attention to larvfe, and by beating, sweeping, and 

 searching for species in this stage I have reared a large number of 

 Lepidoptera. From larvae taken at night in the spring I bred, among 

 many other species, Noctua castanea, Triphmia ianthina, T. fimbria, 

 Pseudoterpna cytisaria ; and Melitcea aurinia, Nemeophila russula, N. 

 plantaginis, &c., were bred from larvae taken during the day. 



I did not do much pupae-digging, as I gave all my spare moments 

 to larvae -beating, although I bred Agriopis aprilina, Phigalia pedaria, 

 Hijbernia defoliaria, &c., from pupae dug at the foot of oaks. I also 

 got other pupae, which I am now wintering along with a few hundred 

 pupae from larvae beaten, swept, &c., during summer and autumn. — 

 Jas. a. Malcolm ; Carlisle, Jan. 1st, 1903. 



Lepidopteba in Suffolk, 1902. — The year 1902 at the outset was 



