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Thyatira batis appeared 21st June, not uncommonly at sugar. Cymatophora 
duplaris, 29th June, excessively numerous at sugar. Acronycta psi, 4th June, com- 
mon at sugar and at rest; ligustri, 20th June, frequent at sugar; rumicis, 26th 
May, abundant at sugar. Leucania conigera, 6th July, very abundant at sugar, 
and yarying much; lithargyria, 29th June, swarming at sugar, and also varying 
much; pallens, 28th June, swarming at sugar and ragwort ; impura, not uncommon 
at sugar. Hydrecia nictitans, 30th July, swarming at sugar, and occasionally on 
ragwort by day; micacea, 30th July, not uncommon at sugar and on ragwort. 
Xylophasia rurea, 30th May, frequent at sugar and at rest; polyodon, 7th June, 
swarming at sugar, the black forms being, as usual, the earlier. Chareas graminis, 
8rd August, rare at sugar and ragwort, apparently periodical in its appearance, 
abounding in vast profusion in 1869. Cerigo Cytherea, 5th August, a few specimens 
at a birch-tree infested with Cossus. Luperina testacea, 6th August, abundant, 
flying over grassy slopes and also at sugar. Mamestra abjecta, 18th July, rare, at 
rest ; anceps, 15th June, frequent at sugar; furva, 6th July, occasionally at sugar ; 
brassice, 12th June, frequent at sugar and at rest. Apamea basilinea, 7th June, 
as the last; gemina, not uncommon at sugar; fibrosa, 3rd August, three specimens 
at sugar, its food-plant not found in this district ; oculea, 28th June, very abundant 
at sugar—vyarying as usual. Miana strigilis, 13th July, frequent at sugar; fas- 
ciuncula, 9th June, swarming at sugar and ragwort; literosa, 4th August, at sugar, 
but not so abundantly as usual. Caradrina alsines, 6th July, at sugar, new to this 
locality ; blanda, 14th July, plentiful at sugar; cubicularis, 30th May, very frequent 
at sugar and at rest. Rusina tenebrosa, 7th June, very common at sugar. Ayrotis 
valligera, 1st August, not uncommon at sugar and at Cossus-birch, bred also from 
larves from the Culbin sands; suffusa, 26th August, plentiful at sugar; segetwm, 
18th June, at sugar; exclamationis, 10th June, frequent at sugar; corticea, 17th 
June, not uncommon at sugar and at rest; nigricans, 30th July, not uncommon at 
sugar; tritici, 3lst July, at sugar, much less common than usual; agathina, 30th 
August, not so frequent as, and later than, last season, although the larves swarmed 
in the heather; porphyrea, 15th June, as usual, very abundant; precowr, 27th May, 
larvea on Culbin sands; I took fifty in half-an-hour from just beneath the sand on 
conical hillocks covered with a dense growth of Salix repens. I made sure of 
getting the pups later on, but dug for hours unsuccessfully ; surely the larvae must 
change at some distance from their food-plant. Tryphena janthina, 2nd July, 
abundant at sugar; fimbria, 15th July, in great abundance at sugar, even up to 28th 
September; subsequa, 5th August, ten specimens, and these mostly in poor con- 
dition, more than half taken from a Cossus-birch; I failed in obtaining eggs for 
Mr. Buckler; orbona, 24th June, swarming at sugar; the black and red variety in 
great abundance; this was fortunate, as I secured several batches of eggs for 
Mr. Doubleday and other friends; some seem to doubt that this form is the same 
species, a point which will probably soon be cleared up; pronuba, 29th June, 
abundant at sugar. Noctua glareosa, 20th August, in great profusion at sugar ; 
depuncta, 19th July, in abundance at sugar, as many as fifteen in one round ; augur, 
29th June, abundant at sugar, and variable; plecta, lst June, frequent at sugar ; 
C-nigrwm, 15th June, very abundant at sugar; triangulum, 7th July, several at 
sugar; brunnea, 20th June, bred, frequent at sugar; festiva, 29th June, abundant at 
