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found EuDjmns cdusa along the coast and cliffs in great numbers, but 

 most difficult to get near. Although unable to come upon any 

 Euri/mus Jtijale there, his little boy, aged six, a few days back, secured 

 one (without net) in a road at West Hampstead just off the Edgware 

 Eoad. I have, in accordance with the Editorial suggestion, antea p. 

 252, used the synonymy worked out by Mr. Prout in the " London 

 List " {Trans. Citij Lond. Ent. Societ;/, 1899 and 1900). — H. Ainslie 

 Hill, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, W. October 

 ith, 1900. 



Lepidoptera in the York district. — The season seems to have 

 been good so far as my limited time has permitted me to get out and 

 work. I had a couple of turns for Ejnone vespertaria larvaB in June, 

 and found them fairly common, and about full-fed by June 21st. 

 The first emergences took place on July 7th — both sexes. Mr. Ash 

 and I spent two pleasant evenings in the middle of July, and they both 

 proved good for E. vesjwrtaria, which were flitting freely about between 

 10 and 11 o'clock. Geometra papilionaria and Acidalia inornata 

 were also rather common on the same nights. Abraxas ulmata 

 aberrations were curiously scarce this year, only one of the leaden -blue 

 form, I believe was seen. I took some very nice aberrations, however, 

 on a second visit with Mr. Ash, one, a great beauty, with the wings 

 slightly suffused, the nervures being white, giving it quite a radiate 

 appearance. — S. Walker, York. September 7th, 1900. 



Lepidoptera at Oxton. — I do not think Callimorpha hera was as 

 common this year as last, but its range has certainly become extended, 

 and I have taken it here this season, between five and six miles from 

 its headquarters at Cofton, and also in the lanes adjoining. Ache- 

 rontia atropos also seems fairly common as I have had five pup® and 

 two larva? dug here up to date. Arfpjrestltia anderref/f/ello, and Teleia 

 humeralis were again taken commonly in August, in the same localities 

 as last year, but Coriscitim. sidplmreUiun a,nd. Le2)to(jraiiniia liter ana, ^Yhich 

 were so common last year, have been very scarce. Sugaring on August 

 20th, in Dawlish Warren, AvithMr. Bower,we took Lithosia caniola which 

 I have not seen there previously myself. Has anyone else ? Only one 

 Caradrina anibif/ua came to sugar, so I suppose it was scarce here this 

 season, as well as in other places. Later on we took twenty Acidalia 

 man/inepunctata sitting on grass-stems, and could have taken many 

 more, but had come to an end of our boxes. In July I took about 

 twenty Eupithecia togata in a fir wood here, also a few E. debiliata, 

 and about thirty Nemotois minimellus, a new insect to me. On the 

 whole I should say the season here has been fairly good, but insects 

 have had to be worked for, and certainly the light traps have not paid 

 as well as usual, except for Lithosia sororcula and Kotodonta trimacula, 

 whilst many things one ordinarily looks for have hardly occurred or 

 been entirely absent. — E. F. C. Studd, M.A., F.E.S., Oxton, 

 Exeter. October 5th, 1900. 



Lepidoptera at Market Drayton and Cannock Chase. — Again 

 following up my notes (ante., p. 301) I have to record that the 

 attractiveness of sugar until August 8th was very marked — Noctua 

 bnninea, N. baia, Dyschorista suspecta, Cleoceris viminalis, Tripliaena 

 fimbria, Noctua castanea, and X. dahlii were all very numerous, whilst 

 Tripthaena pronuba and Xylophasia polyodon were perfect pests ; I did 

 not, however, see many dark specimens of the latter species, only two 



