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Additions to my list (Entom. 64): — March, T. hyemana; October, 

 L. phryganella. — J. Akkle ; Chester. 



The Electric Light at Taunton. — Seeing the numerous accounts of 

 the failure of sugar last year, the better success I had at light struck me as 

 peculiar. From the middle of May to the end of September I went out as 

 nearly as possible every night, and even on the coldest and wettest of 

 nights I never failed to see an insect of some kind. Among the 200 odd 

 species I took at light during the year are : — S. ligustri and S. convolvuli, 



C. porcellus and C. elpenor and the three Smerinlhi; of the Bombyces, H. 

 bicolorana, L. lurideola, G. quadra, A. villica, S. mendica, H. humuli, H. 

 lupulinus and H. hectas, C. ligniperda, Z. pyrina, D. pudibunda, P. popidi, 

 L. quercifolia, D. lacertinaria, D. falcataria, D. binaria and D. cultraria, 



D. furcula, D. bifida and D. vinula; S. fagi, P. palpina, N. dicteea, N. 

 dromedarius, N. ziczac ; of the Noctuae, T. derasa, C. octogesima, A. diluta, 

 B. muralis, D. coryli, A. ligustri, N. arundinis, H. micacea and H.petasitis, 

 N. reticulata, M. persicaria,, M. literosa and M. bicoloria, G. trigrammica, 

 A. saucia, N. plecta, T. fimbria, T. orbona, X. fodvago [per ago), C. xeram- 

 pelina, C. difiinis, P. fiavicincta, H. phi and H. genista, C. umbratica, P. 

 iota, P. chrysitis, H. uncula ; and among the Geometrse, C. apiciaria, If. 

 margaritaria, P. syringaria, E. alniaria and E '. fuscantaria, G. papilionaria 

 and G. vemaria, H. strigata, B. piniaria, T. dubitata and E. certata. 

 Some moths, which are plentiful in the woods around, do not come to light, 

 as, for instance, T. batis and A. pyramidea. The last-named is very 

 common, but I only took one example at light. I also secured a specimen 

 which I put down to be a variety of M. fluctuata ; the large dark blotch in 

 the centre of the margin of the upper wing is absent. Early in the spring, 

 an example of A. atropos was taken, and in 1888 four D. galii. Unluckily 

 they had found their way into the globes, and were a bit damaged. — M. 

 Farrant ; 74, Cambridge Street, Pimlico, S.W. 



[At the December meeting of the London Entomological Society, 

 Colonel Swinhoe stated that in Bombay he had collected more than 300 

 specimens of Sphingidse by means of the electric light. Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., said that at Panama he found the electric light very attractive to 

 insects. Mr. M'Arthur, who has just returned from India, informs me 

 that in passing through the Suez Canal he noticed numbers of moths, 

 many of large size, darting about in the beam of the electric light, which 

 was worked from a sort of cage suspended over the bow of the ship. — R. S.] 



Epione parallelaria var. — At the foot of the recorded capture of a 

 variety of Epione parallelaria which appears in the January number by Mr. 

 Hewett, is to me a rather astonishing note by the editor, who says : — " This 

 variety is more commonly bred than captured ; some years not un- 

 frequently." Having bred and collected this species for many years, — and 

 I believe the experience of other York collectors will confirm me, — I 

 must say that I have never heard of one of this variety having been bred 

 before. This form is figured, Entom. xi. pi. 3, fig, 3. and is recorded at 

 p. 170 of that volume as having been captured by the late Mr. Prest, on 

 the 13th July, 1874, at its haunt near Strensall. Further mention is made 

 of several others taken in previous seasons near the same spot, pointing to 

 an hereditary form. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Jackson, of York, have, I believe, 

 both captured it. There is one in the Allis' Collection in the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society's Museum in this city, which looks by its rather worn 



