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across several Tiliana anraifo, and a row of limes produced Tilicura 

 iitra;(o, whilst the elms gave me ^ll'l[inia <jilni,j(,, but both the latter 

 species occurred somewhat sparingly. One afternoon a visitor spotted 

 a wing of Tft/ica sahtusa in the room which, in my spacious vicarage, I 

 devote to service as a "moth trap,'' which raises hopes of more. 

 HevaUra serctia proved to be common, sitting on trees, at sugar and 

 light. On September 21st, having tired of collecting in my garden 

 for some weeks, I thought I would sample the insects outside, and to 

 my surprise took three specimens of Kjninda hitidcnta. Now this 

 insect had never come my way before, and of course I was very pleased. 

 A chorus of correspondents cheered me with the news that they, too, 

 had never seen K. lutnlcnta alive, so I caught all which would be 

 caught. The last specimen was taken on October 6th, and made the 

 grand total 129. These specimens proved most interesting to me, and 

 require careful examination. It will be sufficient to remark here that 

 they seem to supply variations of the type form (reddish) parallel with 

 those recorded in the black form in lUit. Xactiiae axd their Varx., vol. 

 iii., pp. 58-59. I got a few batches of eggs which, distributed to friends, 

 will, 1 hope, result in satisfactory specimens. Micella o.n/acantliae ab. 

 capiicina outnumbered the type, but I am most struck with the i/dlmr 

 aberrations of this insect, which are most interesting and will also 

 call for further description. Aplata nehnlom and A. adiriia turned up, 

 the former quite a stranger to me, unseen since I left Brentwood, the 

 latter usual on the marshes and a very large race. Hadcna iicm'stae 

 rather surprised me, sitting one morning upon a dahlia post. I had 

 not seen it since I left the wood country. Cat<nala uKpta as usual 

 proved to be in countless numbers. 



Of the Geometrids — Knnoinos fuscantaria favoured me in solitary 

 state — in the moth trap ; Zondsouia jiemlidaria, also one worn speci- 

 men ; Acidulia tri<icnnnata proved to be one of (/(c insects of my garden. 

 1 should have passed it over had not a friend brought out his net, 

 and taken about half-a-dozen, whereupon I tried also, and took a good 

 many more ; A. inarfiixejuoirtata, a single specimen. Passing over 

 common things, I note, with some surprise, Strenia vlat/irata, not 

 common on the marshes, and Kinatunja atuinaria. AsjiiUitcs citraria 

 also gave me some surprise ; it was found Hying with ( 'alias cdusa, 

 two female specimens being brought to me from the same field in 

 which the latter were taken. Of the "Pugs," I have so far detected 

 only KiipitJtcvia obUnKjata, K. sKhfiilrata, K. sithnotata, and K. irct- 

 anijtdata. Antidea nibidata again turned up, not quite a surprise, but 

 very welcome to me ; while I must confess that it was a surprise to find 

 Sciitosia rhatnnata at light, for I have not yet found a plant of the food. 



Of the Pyralids I have noted both Aijlossa iiiiKitiiiudis and A. ciijnr- 

 idix, Astijiia (■>ist(dii<, A. tihiKrinalis, and I'ljralis farinalis, the latter not 

 met with for years, Scaparia crmbrac, Xaiiiojdula nactinlla, Kudntricha 

 jlanuiu-alis, Scdjndn fcrniijalis, Sjdlodcs trrtiralis, and, of course, I'iomua 

 forjiralis. 



Whether or no I shall do better this coming season or not remains 

 to be proved. I offer these notes in the hope that they may be of 

 interest as a record of the species to be found in a little-known and, so 

 far as I know, unworked locality — which, although close to the 

 " highway of the nations," is about as out-of-the-way a place as I 

 ever chanced to live in. 



