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represented by one or two specimens. Autumn larvae were very 

 scarce.' 



Mr. Lovvnsborough, Scarborough, says : — ' The year has 

 been unusually bad. Both sallows and sugaring have been 

 dead failures.' 



Messrs. Booth and Beanland, of Saltaire :— ' Not one good 

 night sugaring during the year, and that the season has been a 

 failure so far as collecting has been concerned' ; they also note 

 the 'unusual abundance of Ichneumons.' 



Mr. Button, of York, 'on June 26th, in Askham Bogs, 

 took thirty-two species of Noctuse at sugar,' and says of this 

 evening ' moths in profusion.' 



Mr. C. Young, Rotherham ' never knew such a bad sea- 

 son before.' 



Mr. E. P. Butterfield, Wilsden : — ' Sugar is not usually 

 attractive to moths in the Wilsden district, and this year has 

 been no exception.' 



Mr. J. Harrison, Barnsley : — ' This year has been the 

 worst I ever experienced, ramble after ramble have I come 

 home with next to nothing ; the commonest insects were not to 

 be met with.' 



Mr. J. Sumner, Everingham, has had seven or eight differ- 

 ent species of moths in his light trap on one night, and as 

 many as seventy or eighty specimens in on one night. 



Rev. C. D. Ash, B.A., Skipwith, writes : — ' Spring collect- 

 ing very poor compared with last year ; among early species 

 the only plentiful one was Hybeinia progemmaria, and of this 

 no dark forms turned up.' 



' The sallows were completely cut up by the storms and 

 frost at the beginning of April, and I only had one good night 

 at them. Sweeping and searching for larvs was also rewarded 

 with little success. 



' Sugar yielded a few common species. During the latter 

 part of May and the first fortnight in June I was away in the 

 Isle of Man, so missed the early summer collecting. On return 



Trans. Y.N.U., igoo (pub. Dec. 1900). Series D, Vol. 5. 



