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Subf. Carad7'inincB. 



Grammesia trigrammica, Hufn., Hampstead ; Clutterhouse 

 Lane ; Kingsbury ; Old Oak Common (Godwin) ; Mill Hill, at 

 sugar, very abundant (South) ; Finchley (Shepherd) ; Harefield 

 (Wall). 



Caradrina morpheus, Hufn., Clutterhouse Lane (Godwin) ; 

 Mill Hill, at privet blossom, sugar, and honey-dew (South) ; 

 Tufnell Park (Shepherd) ; South Hampstead (Watts) ; Clapton 

 (Bacot) ; Dalston (Prout) ; Chiswick (Sich). C. alsines, Brahm., 

 Mill Hill, at privet blossom, sugar, and honey-dew (South) ; 

 Tufnell Park [Shepherd) ; Harefield (Wall) ; Chiswick, once 

 (Sich). C. taraxaci, Hb., Elgin Eoad (Godwin) ; Mill Hill, at 

 privet blossom, sugar, and honey-dew (South) ; Kentish Town 

 (Shepherd); Harefield (Wall). C. quadripunctata, Fb., Elgin 

 Eoad (Godwin) ; Mill Hill, at privet blossom, sugar, and honey- 

 dew (South) ; Tufnell Park (Shepherd) ; South Hampstead 

 (Watts)', Harefield (Wall)-, South Kensington (Chitty) ; Dalston 

 (Prout) ; Chiswick (Sich). 



Rusina tenebrosa, Hb., Kingsbury ; Bishop's Wood, Hamp- 

 stead (Godwin); Highgate (Mera). 



(To be continued. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Notes on SpRiNa Lepiboptera in the Chester District. — 

 The evening of February 27th was fine, warm, starry, and accom- 

 panied by slight fog. From the gas-lamps I took Hybernia rupica- 

 praria, H. marginaria (progemmaria), and H. defoliaria — the latter 

 being common, and, like my other February specimens, apparently 

 fresh from the chrysalis. March 17th. — In the evening I searched 

 an early flowering sallow for moths; result, not a moth to be seen. 

 March 21st. — I went to Delamere Forest in quest of a female Nyssia his- 

 pidaria for a friend ; I only took a couple of males. Saw three male and 

 one female H. marginaria (very light-coloured, as all the Delamere speci- 

 mens are that I have come across), one Anisopteryx aiscularia. Took half- 

 a-dozen male H. leucophearia, which included the light and dark forms 

 figured by Newman, as well as intermediates. March 24th. — A speci- 

 men of A. Jlavicornis — the larva I came across in the forest last summer — ■ 

 emerged at 12.30 a.m. April 4th. — I paid another visit to Delamere ; 

 went through the usual 5^ hours' solitary search : one male N. hispidaria, 

 just out of the chrysalis (they emerge from mid-day up to about 3 p.m.). 

 Left it on a tree to expand its wings in natural conditions : the interrupted 

 process (say, in a pocket box) is almost certain — I might say certain — to 

 end in what is known as " saccular distension." Marked the tree, of 

 course, for my return, when I found the moth to be a finely-developed 

 insect. My total captures numbered three : the Nyssia, a male H. leuco- 

 phcearia, and a male A. cbscularia drying its wings on an oak. I find my 



