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for in is- '-{^), very common, and occasionally attracted in the daytime to 

 sugar spread on pear trees, but generally to be seen sunning themselves 

 on the upper surface of leaves, especially large leaves like those of the 

 hollyhock. Arctiides : — Arctia caja, very occasionally ; Spilosoina 

 liibricipeda-% very common, the larvae sometimes too abundant; S. 

 Inbricipeda ab. fasciata, four specimens; S. menthastrr'-, also veiy 

 common. Zeuzerides : — Zemera aesculi''-, only too abundant, notwith- 

 standing our efforts to reduce the number by squashing dozens every 

 year, the larvffi terribly destructive. Cossides : — Cossiis lu/niperda (S), 

 once at sugar in 1899. Hepialides : — Hepialus lupidinus, fairly 

 common ; H. hamuli, one or two males only. Nolides : — Nola 

 cucullatella-'', one larva on plum. Lithosiides : — Nadana nmndana, 

 one male in 1898, on garden wall. LyMANTRiiDES : — Porthesia similis, 

 not more than once, I think ; Leucoma salicis-'', one bred in 1892, and 

 an imago in 1897 ; Orgyia antiqna-% very common. Psychides : — 

 ' Fumea casta .' {intermediella) , occasionally. Lachneides : — Malacosma 

 Ineustria, a dead one lying in a gutter (I hardly know whether this 

 ' ought to be included). Notodontides : — Cerura bifida-'', one bred in 

 1898 ; C. vinida-'-, the larvae common ; Phalera bacephala'-'', larv^ on 

 nut once. Noctuides : — Triaena psr' (S), common ; Apatela aceris-''- (S), 

 rather common ; Cuspidia uienacephala-'- (S), very common ; Pendrouia 

 sHjfiisa, Sj worn, female at light in 1900 (June 15th !) ; P. saucia (S), once 

 at sugar in 1898 ; A<irotis seijetntn (S), fairly common ; A. puta, one at 

 light in 189^^, and another in 1900; A. exclamationis (S), common; 

 A. nigricans (ii), two Sit sngSir in 1900; Axtjlia piitris-''- {^), common; 

 \ Triphaena fimbria (S), once in 1900 ; T. orbona (S), common in some years ; 

 ; T. pronnba (S), very common ; Graphiphora augnr, once only in 1895, 1 

 think at sugar; Noctuaplecta''-, not common; A'^. c-ni;/riim (S), frequently 

 at sugar; L. baia {^), once in 1900; A^. rHbi{S), not common ; N. 

 .ranthojirapha (S), common ; PLadena thalassina, twice ; H. oleracea'-'- (S), 

 very common ; H. trifoliv' (S), very common ; Mamestra brassicae-' (S), 

 very common ; M. persicariae^- (S), common ; M. sordida, one at lily in 

 1897 ; Hecatera serena, three in 1899, two of them at turk's-cap lilies (we 

 found these flowers rather attractive) ; Diantltoecia ciicnbali'-'-, larvse 

 rather common on Li/chnis Jios-cuctili : D. capsincola'-' , common at 

 flowers, the larvte common, in the seed-vessels of L. fios-cnculi and 

 pinks ; Lnperina testacea, occasionally at light ; Xylophasia litho.vylea {B) , 

 rather common ; X. monoglyplia (S), very common ; X. riirea, once at 

 light in 1892 ; Apamea basilinea, common ; A.gemina (S), one in 1899 ; 

 A. ocnlea (S), very common; A. ophiogramma, once in 1903; Miana 

 strigilis (S), abundant at sugar, especially var. aethiops ; Miana fasciuncida 

 (S), occasionally ; M.bicoloria (S), sometimes rather common ; Dipterygia 

 pinastri (S), was getting common two or three years before we left ; 

 Fhiplej-ia Incipara'-'- (S), very common ; PJdogophora meticnlosa (S), not 

 common ; Helotropha fibrosa (S),once in 1900; Hydroecia nictitans (S), 

 once in 1900 ; H. micacea (S), two in 1898 ; Leucania iinpura (S), one or 

 two at sugar ; /.. pallens (S), one or two at sugar ; L. conigera (S), once 

 in 1900; L.//V/(fl(7///r/a (S), occasionally acligbtandsugar; Taeniocampa 

 instabilix-'-, not common ; Xaenia typica--'- (S), abundant ; Amphipyra 

 tragopogonis-'- [S), occasionally at sugar ; Caradrina /»o)-p/ie»s (S), rather 

 common ; ('. quadri punctata (S), common ; C. hlanda (?), one at light in 

 1899; (Jran) mesia trigraminica (S), one in 1900; Dyschorista fisdpuncta''-, 

 the larvfe only, on poplar, rather common ; we used to procure them 



