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the back of the villas at Arquata. The only fresh records were two 

 dragonfiies, females of Syiiipctriini scoticinn and hc/nnira jnuiiilin, on 

 the hill top. S. statUiniin were easily taken as they settled, and .S'. 

 circe was even now in fair condition. The leaves were now beginning 

 to fall fast, the first sign of autumn, although the heat of the sun at 

 midday was still fierce. 



September 2nd. — Last night there was another heavy thunder- 

 storm, just before which two specimens of the large Orthopteron, 

 Thaneroptera falcata, jumped into my bed-room, no doubt attracted by 

 the electric light, and took shelter together with a female .S, sfatilinus 

 and the following moths : Cilix (/laucata, Rnmia liiteolata, Brijophila 

 perla and Tephrona crepiiacHlaria. 



September 4th. — Yesterday afternoon the garden yielded the 

 dragonfly Sijmpetruni striolatuin, male, and the Hymenopterou, Polutes 

 galUea, and at night Cilix glancata, a common species here, again came 

 to light, with a female Lasiocampa qiierciis, which on being boxed 

 immediately commenced to oviposit, Triphaena comes, another abundant 

 species, and Thyatira batis, the first I have seen here. On the floor I 

 boxed a male Gryllus campestris. In the garden I took Anaitis playinta 

 newly out, and a fresh example of S. stdlatarnm, which is an abundant 

 species throughout the fine season. 



September 5th. — Last night at light I added Plusia chrydtis (2nd 

 brood) in company with the beetle Balininus glanrliuvi. In the after- 

 noon of a somewhat windy day, on the hillside away from Arquata, I 

 met with freshly emerged P. rapae, males of -S'. statiliniin, and both 

 sexes of A. coridon. Males of both (]. eihim and C. hyale were about, 

 but it was too gusty to get them. 



September 7th. — On this gusty, thundery afternoon with no sun I 

 went t) the foot of the "Blufi"" and found freshly emerged S. 

 stellatarum at the blossoms of Centaiirea calcitrapa. I took a female 

 G. r/uonni, the first I had seen since early Julj with a sprinkling of A. 

 thetis ibellargus), P. rapae, P. napi, P. daplidice, and females of A. 

 coridun. P. iiiegera and P. daplidice were in perfectly good condition 

 and even numerous here. 



September 1 1th. — Last evening the moths Triphaena conies (orbona), 

 Ortholitha plumbaria,, the autumn " may fly," and the Orthopteron 

 Fhcneroptera falcata came to light. This afternoon, crossing the 

 railway I turned to the left and went again to the bottom of the 

 " Blufi:'," meeting with the same species as before. Making ray way 

 along the dry bed of the stream when I reached the small stagnant 

 pools, the only remnants since June of the flowing stream, I secured 

 males of the Dragon-flies Lestes spousa, one male of Orthetnim 

 caernlescens, and a pair of Platycnemis pennipes, in cop. I then 

 crossed the dry wide bed of the Scrivia, where masses of yellow hawk- 

 weed were in full flower. Here I took Hesperia malvae, [?] and both sexes 

 of C. hyale and P. daplidice were feeding in numbers on the blossoms. 

 Just above the river bank C. edusa was flying rapidly with fresh Pieris 

 rapae and A. thetis. Instead of crossing by the wooden bridoe I took 

 the stony bed of the river and secured the Oithoptera Oedipoda 

 caeridescens and Stethophynia fuscum on the w^ay. 



September 14th. — A perfect day, strong sun and no wind, the 'first 

 windless day for many weeks. Again I descended through the wood 

 near the " Bluff " to the bed of the stream. Here the products of the 



