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During September a few more larvae of A. atropos were met with, and 

 on the oth a pupa was sent me by Mrs. Fogden. On the 9th I took 

 from a gas-lamp Ennomos fuscantaria, another on 13th, and a worn 

 specimen on Oct. 1st. Sugar was a complete failure, the only insect 

 worth naming attracted by it being Catocala nnpta. — Joseph Anderson. 



Notes on Lepidoptera from Portland. — Both broods of Lyccena 

 artiiolus were out in fair numbers, but of L. adonis, Colias ediisa, and 

 Vanessa caidui, so plentiful here last season, I have only seen one of 

 the last named. Acidalia degenaria I managed to find in two or three 

 spots on the island and took a few, but they were mostly in poor 

 condition. I was fortunate enough to discover a larva of CuculUa 

 absinthii on the 31st August feeding on wormwood growing in my 

 garden, and, from the knowledge of its appearance thus gained, was 

 enabled to find between twenty and thirty others at home and afield, 

 but they did not pupate satisfactorily. In the spring-time I took a 

 hundred or so of Epunda lirhenea larvte, which fed well and appeared 

 to go down all right ; but when I looked for the pupae, I found the 

 bulk had entirely disappeared, from what cause I cannot say. Helio- 

 phobus hispidiis I found in its usual haunts in fair numbers. A few 

 Acrophi/la aitatralis came to sugar, and in May I found about a dozen 

 larvae, from which I bred five imagines. More common insects have 

 not been generally plentiful here this season. I had no difficulty in 

 obtaining ova of H. hispidus and of E. lichenea, the former of which 

 have just hatched. — Jno. T. Hyde ; The Grove, Portland. 



Lepidoptera at Light in Hertfordshire. — In continuation of my 

 notes on Lepidoptera taken at light in this county during 1899 (vide 

 Entom. xxxiii. pp. 92 and 93), I now give below a list of those I ob- 

 tained from January 1900 to the end of September, 1901. During 

 that period I captured rather more than two hundred and thirty 

 different species within a short distance of our house. The majority 

 were captured with a light-trap fitted to a first-floor window, and the 

 remainder at an electric lamp in a garden close by. I do not have my 

 trap fitted with any killing apparatus, so that any specimens not 

 required can be liberated in the morning. 



The best captures were as follows: — Samthripas revaijana (undu- 

 lanus), one. Spdosoma menthastri, a brown aberration. Trichiura 

 cratmi'i, three males. Luperina cespitis, seven. Apamm unaniniis, one, 

 A. ophioijramma, three. Agrotis ciiierea, one male. A. porpJujrea (stri- 

 (jida), one. Orthosia snspecta, one. Cahjmnia pyralina, fairly common. 

 Ast^roscopus sphinx, males fairly plentiful. Plusia inoneta, four (also four 

 more taken at dusk). Spilodcs palealis, one. Galleria mdlondla, one. 



The following is a list of the other species. The dates after the 

 commoner species indicate the earliest and latest dates on which they 

 were observed on the wing during the period dealt with. 



Sphinges : — Remarkably scarce, being represented by single speci- 

 mens of Sphinx lifjustri (an exceptionally large one), and Smerinthus 

 ocellatus. 



Bombyces : — Hylophila bicolorana (quercana), one. Xola cucullatella, 

 June 30th — July 13th. Lithosia griseola, one. L. lurideola, July 7th 

 — July 30th. Euchelia jacobcBCR, one. Arctia caia, few. Spilosoma 

 lubricipeda, May 28th— July 3rd. S. menthastri, May 19th — July 13th. 



ENTOM. — DECEMBER, 1901. 2 F 



