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which I might secure the insect, it took wing again, flew away over a 

 garden, and disappeared, leaving me wondering what manner of moth 

 it could be, for I could not, at the moment, recollect any Tortrix that 

 would agree with the peculiarities of the insect that I had so clearly 

 seen. Its markings and its bright appearance while on the wing had, 

 however, so impressed themselves upon me that I could not get the 

 episode out of my mind, and some hours later it suddenly dawned 

 upon me, that the little moth whose identity had so worried me 

 agreed more closely with the Tortrix that was exhibited at the 

 meeting of the Entomological Society nearly a year before than any- 

 thing else that I had seen, and that it could have been no other than 

 T. pronubana. Needless to say, I took many after-breakfast strolls 

 in the same direction, and at night left the windows open and the 

 gas burning in the hope that some stray individual should wander 

 towards the house where I was staying, and be thus lured into my 

 clutches ; but nothing in the shape of a Tortrix was obtained. 



At the end of the week my friend Mr. South came down to 

 spend a day with me, and on my relating my experiences of the 

 previous Sunday morning to him, he very kindly promised to look 

 up the literature of the subject, on his return home, and to send me 

 any extracts from it that might be useful to me in following up the 

 search. 



The information thus received, especially an extract from the 

 Rev. F. E. Lowe's article on the occurrence of the species in 

 Guernsey, which for the moment had quite passed from my mind, 

 induced me to make a close search of the Euonymus, which grows 

 so luxuriantly in Eastbourne, in common with most of the south- 

 coast towns, but I was at once met by the serious difficulty that the 

 majority of the hedges of this shrub to which one can obtain easy 

 access are kept so closely and frequently clipped, that the young 

 shoots, where it would be most likely that any Tortrix larvas would 

 be found, are continually removed. It was not until I obtained the 

 entry to a private garden, where the shears had been somewhat less 

 ruthlessly applied, that there appeared to be much chance of 

 success. 



The Euonymus here looked promising ; it was growing in a thick 

 hedge, and there were plenty of young, tender shoots upon it. 

 From it I obtained during, perhaps, an hour's close search, two 

 small pupae and a very evident Tortrix larva, and all uncertainty was 

 dispelled a couple of days later by the emergence from one of the 

 former of an undoubted Tortrix pronubana — a rather small male. 



Subsequent visits to the same place produced a few more pupae, 

 and two or three more larvae, from which I have since reared a short 

 series of moths, including both sexes ; and on the evening of 

 September 22nd, while searching for pupae, I found a somewhat 

 worn female moth (the first, I believe, of that sex taken in this 

 country,) resting in a shoot of the food-plant. 



Mr. Eustace R. Bankes has already described the Bognor speci- 



