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cania turca, a few taken at sugar ; L. impudens, a few taken on the bogs ; 

 L. impura, very abundant; Xylophasia lithoxylea, X. hepatica, Dipterygia 

 scabriuscula, Miana strigilis, M. fasciuncala, Grammesia trigrammica, all at 

 sugar, sparingly ; Acosmetia caliginosa, taken by a local collector ; Rusina 

 tenebrosa, at sugar ; Agrotis strigula (= porphyria), common on the heaths ; 

 Noctua plecta, N. /estiva, at sugar ; Panolis piniperda, one larva taken, 

 which proved to be "ichneumoned "; Phlogophora meticulosa, at sugar; 

 Aplecta nebulosa, abundant ; Hadena dentina, PL. thalassima, at sugar ; H. 

 genista, one, at light ; Anarta myrtilli, taken on the heaths, — several larvae 

 also taken, which subsequently proved to be ichneumoned ; Phytometra 

 viridaria, not uncommon ; Urapteryx sambucaria, Metroccwipamargaritaria, 

 both common ; Boarmia repandata, very abundant, some nice forms taken, 

 including the variety conversaria ; B. roboraria, not uncommon ; Pseudo- 

 terpna pruinata, (= cytisaria), not uncommon ; Phorodesma pustidata 

 (= bajularia), one specimen taken ; Acidalia immutata, common locally ; 

 A. emutaria, abundant on the bogs ; Macaria liturata, Bupalus piniaria, 

 amongst the firs ; Aspilates strigillaria, locally common on the heaths ; 

 Hypsipetes sordidata (= elutata), common ; Eubolia limitata (= mensurarig), 

 E.plumbaria, both abundant ; Tanagra atrata (= char ophyllata), common ; 

 Pyrausta purpuralis, abundant ; Herbula cespitalis, common ; Endotricha 

 flammecdis, locally common. Certainly entomologising in the New Forest 

 this season was disappointing work, especially at night, when " sugar " 

 would attract but few insects ; but I think the above list of species met 

 with shows that the Forest was not, entomologically, such a desert as Mr. 

 E. G. Alderson's letter would lead one to suppose it to have been. I may 

 mention that I found insects at the Forest to be fully a week later than at 

 Abbot's Wood, in Sussex, where I had just been collecting, and also con- 

 siderably later than I had found them at the Forest in previous seasons. — 

 E. W. H. Blagg; Cheadle, Staffordshire. 



A Week at Sherwood Forest. — On August 18th of this year, 

 accompanied by my friend Mr. James Batty, of this town, I arrived at 

 Edwinstowe, a small viliage situated close upon the Forest, and found 

 most comfortable accommodation at ' The Royal Oak ' Inn, which I can 

 safely recommend to any entomologist visiting the locality. Every evening 

 during our stay, with the exception of Suuday, we tried the seductive 

 allurements of old Scotch black treacle, beer, and rum, but, except on one 

 occasion, with very poor results. The one exception referred to was on 

 Monday, August 25th. Directly we had put the treacle on the trees the 

 rain commenced to pour down, and did not cease the whole night. As soon 

 as rain began to fall my friend Batty wished to go back, as he said insects 

 never came out in the rain ; at least he had not known them to do so in 

 forty years' experience. However, I persuaded him to accompany me just 

 for one round, and, greatly to our surprise, we found the trees literally 

 swarming with moths. Well, in that one round I filled about 120 boxes, 

 all with good insects; and I think any enthusiastic entomologist would not 

 have minded the thorough soaking that we got if the same good fortune 

 attended. By far the commonest insect at sugar that night was Noctua 

 dahlii, which swarmed on every tree. Euperia fulvago is a dead failure 

 this year in its head-quarters, and I do not think we took eighteen speci- 

 mens all the time we were there. Another curious thing was that we did 

 not see even one specimen of Amphipyra pyramided, which is usually an 

 abundant species in the Forest. A few Noctua glareosa, in excellent 



