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" Sugaring " during the season was little more successful than last year, 

 the scarcity of some species being, I believe, the cause, on account of their 

 absence on favourable evenings. As a consequence of the abundance of 

 larvae, doubtless, the Ichneumonidae were numerous early in the season ; 

 so also were the " sawflies." — T. B. Jefferys; (Olevedon) Cirencester. 



Apamea ophiogramma at Hampstead. — It may be of interest to the 

 readers of the • Entomologist ' to know that I took in my garden here two 

 specimens of Apamea ophiogramma ; the first on June the 23rd, and the 

 second on August the 12th. — E. H. Evans ; 3, Thurlow Road, Hampstead. 



[Probably our correspondent has some of the ornamental ribbon-grass 

 growing in his garden. This plant is said to be the food of the larva of 

 A. ophiogramma. — Ed.] 



Oxyptilus LjEtus on the Kentish Coast. — I captured some speci- 

 mens of this plume-motb, on June 8th, between Dover and St. Margaret's 

 Bay. On July 13th I took a few more at Deal, or, rather, at the Sandwich 

 end of the sand-hills. — W. Purdey ; 129, Sea View Terrace, Folkestone. 



Zanclognatha emortualis. — It may perhaps interest you to learn 

 that I possess a good specimen of this insect, which was taken a good many 

 years ago by the Rev. W. T. Bree, of Allesley Rectory, near Coventry, but 

 I do not know any of the particulars of its capture. — (Rev.) Henry Burney ; 

 Wavendon Rectory, Bletchley Station, Bucks, October 4, 1890. 



[On June 12th, 1859, the late Mr. Charles Healy beat a specimen of 

 Z. emortualis out of a beech tree near the King's Oak, Epping Forest 

 (E. W. I. vii. 188;Zool. xx. 8296). Mr. Machhr exhibited it at the 

 Entomological Society of London on December 2nd, 186 J. I saw the 

 specimen sold at Stevens's a few years ago, but I forget the date and who 

 was the purchaser. — E. A. F.] 



Scarcity of Lepidoptera. — I spent the first three weeks of August 

 at Staplefield, near Crawley, Sussex. The weather was bad for the time of 

 year, being cold and wet nearly every day, with an occasional thunder- 

 storm. As far as appearances went the country looked very~premising for 

 collecting in. There were numerous small woods close to the house in 

 which I was staying, with rough fields between them. Beating the hedges 

 by day only produced a few of the commonest Geometrae and Tortrices, 

 while sugaring was an utter failure, as I did not see a single moth, although 

 the evenings when I tried were, to all appearances, most favourable, being 

 calm and damp. The only larvae noticed were a few broods of Pygcera 

 bucephala and a solitary Smerinthus ocellatus. — Gervase F. Mathew ; 

 H.M.S. 'Tyne,' Gibraltar, October 9, 1890. 



List of Butterflies taken and seen near and at Monmouth in 

 Seasons 1889 and 1890. — Pierid^e. — Gonepteryx rhamni. Pieris 

 brassicce, P. rapce, P. napi, common. Anthocharis cardamines, common. 

 NYMPHALiDiE. — Argynnis paphia, common; A. adippe ; A. euphrosyne, 

 plentiful ; A. selene {?). Melitcea artemis, Cwmcarvan. Vanessa c-album, 

 plentiful; Vanessa urticce, plentiful; V. polychloros, 1 specimen, Aug. 23rd, 

 1890; V. io, common ; V. atalanta ; V. cardui, occasional. Apaturid^e. — 

 Apatura iris, several (two females taken while settled on ground). Satyrid^e. 

 — Melanargia galatea ; Pararge egeria, plentiful; P. megcera, plentiful. 

 Epinephele ianira, plentiful ; E. tithonus, not common ; E. hyperanthes, 

 fairly plentiful. Qcenonympha pamphilus, common. Lycenid^e. — Thecla 



