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with ill ihelr wild dight over the heath. It soon became evident that larvas- 

 beating was the best thing to be done. The oaks yielded Dasychira pudi- 

 hiinda, Amphidasys strataria {prodrornaria), Cidaria siderata, Odontopera 

 bidentata, Notodonta trepida, N. dodonea {trimacula) ; and from the sallows 

 were obtained Dicranura furcula, Pterostoma palpina, and Notodonta 

 dromedariiis, but we found it useless to attempt birch-beating. A few larvae 

 of Macroglossa fuciformis were discovered, one of which could not have 

 been hatched more than a few days, while another was about full-fed. Light 

 attracted but few insects, the best thing perhaps being Ave)Uia flexula. 

 The extraordinary abundance of Euchelia jacobcece is worth recording ; 

 these larvsB were in thousands, and every plant of ragwort stripped, large 

 quantities upon the herbage searching for food. — Alfrfjd T. Mitchell; 

 5, Clayton Terrace, Gunnersbury, W., January 24, 1891. 



Notes from Invernesshire. — Judging from various notes on the subject, 

 the season of 1890 seems to have been a poor one for Lepidoptera through- 

 out England. I spent August and twenty-four days in September at 

 Beananach, about a mile from Carrbridge, Invernesshire. The neighbour- 

 hood was all that could be desired from an entomological point of view, and 

 I was little prepared for the utter lack of Lepidoptera of all kinds, notably 

 Diurni and Noctuse. There were a good many Geometrse in the pine 

 woods, but almost exclusively confined to the following species : — Thera 

 firmata, T. sim.ulata, Cidaria populata, and Larentia coBsiata. Treacling 

 and light (moth-trap) were both failures. Mothing during the day was the 

 sole productive employment. — D. H. S. Stewabt ; 66, Albert Hall 

 Mansions, W., February 6, 1891- 



Notesfrom Various Localities. — On May 15th my brothers and myself 

 went to Wickham Wood, having been told by a friend that he had found 

 there several larvae of Geometra papilionaria. We searched the whole 

 afternoon and were fortunate enough to get four full-grown larvse of this 

 insect, three of which attained the perfect state on June 11th, 13th, and 

 15th, respectively. The fourth turned out to be ichneumoned. On June 

 9th we visited the same locality, but the only larvse worth mentioning which 

 we could find were seven Asphalia flavicornis on the birches; we took, how- 

 ever, the following insects : — E. dolobraria, B. consortaria, E. heparata, 

 H. impluviata, C. p)'>'opugnata, M. notata (2). T. oheliscata (abundant), M. 

 montanata, V. maculata, M. rivata, P. petraria, A. remutata, were all very 

 common, while E. punctulata could be seen at rest on almost every tree. 

 From August 2nd to Sept. 6th we were collecting at Sidmouth, in South 

 Devon, and, as in the previous year, netted numbers of Hesperia actmon, 

 Pararge semele, and Argynnis paphia ; A. adippe and A. aglaia were both 

 worn and scarce ; Leucophasia sinapis, Lyccena argiolus, and Nisoniades tages 

 were not, as usually, abundant. Colias edusa and C. hyale were nowhere 

 to be seen (I should like very much to hear from any of your correspon- 

 dents concerning the appearance of these insects last season). Sugaring 

 during this month was ineffectual, but hedge-beating proved very produc- 

 tive. In this way we captured G. spinula, E. apiciaria (abundant), H. 

 ^lutata, U. sambucata, C. dotata, G. obscurata, C. elinguaria, A. subseri- 

 ceata, P. cytisaria, H. thymiaria, C. testata, C. ribesiaria, E. affinitata, C. 

 Jerrugata, C. unidentata, C. pusaria, M. ocellata, M. galiata, 0. immanata, 

 S. illunaria, E. rectangulata, C. propugnata, C. picata, A. p)lagiata, A. 

 promutata, M. furuncula, C. cubicularis, D. capsincola. In the daytime 

 B. quercus, P.anea, and T. interjecta were common along the cliflfs; and 



