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March circurastauces prevented my working the sallows, so that I could not 

 properly observe the Tseniocarapse. Sugaring for them proved a com- 

 plete failure in a garden surrounded by open fields, and often found pro- 

 ductive in the summer months. The following are the species seen, and 

 dates of their appearance : — March 8th, Tceniocampa gothica, Anticlea 

 badiata (at blossoms of sallow branches placed in garden), Vanessa urticcB ; 

 10th, Xylocampa areola; 13th, Cerastis sj^adicea [&t ssMow) ; 15th, Ani- 

 sopteryx CBScularia ; 21st, Selenia illunaria ; 23rd, Hybernla marginaria ; 

 24th, Tceniocampa stabiiis (one specimen at sugar) ; 30th, Cidaria suffu- 

 mata. From the 13th to the end of the month the nights were generally 

 bright, clear and frosty. April 1st, T. stabiiis ; 2nd, Pie7-is rapa ; 4th, 

 Hybernla marginaria, Vanessa urticce (commonly); 9th, Euchlo'e carda- 

 vilnes (male and female); 13th, Anisopteryx cescularla and Anticlea badiata; 

 14th, Pararge (Bgeria, Anticlea derivata, Tainiocampa populeti (one speci- 

 men at rest), Dicranura vinula (male), Pieris iiapi ; 17th, Enpitliecia 

 pumilata ; IHth, Pieris brassicce ; koth, Pararge megiera, Rumia luteolata 

 [cratcegata), Etichelia jacobcece ; 21st, Hemerophlla abruptarla ; 22nd, Go- 

 noptera libatrlx (at sugar), Vanessa io, Coremia designata, Euplthecla coro- 

 nata, Eurrhypara urticata, Euchlo'e cardamines (very abundant at this 

 time); 29th, Spilosoma mejidica (female, tlying in sunshine), Acldalia 

 remutarla. From a relative in Pembrokeshire I hear Lyccetia argioliis was 

 seen on Easter Monday; Argynnls euphrosyne the following week; 

 Nisoniades toges and Syrlchthiis malvcB were common on April 22nd. — 

 T. B. Jefff'Irys ; Langharne, Carmarthenshire, May 4. 1893. 



Chester and North Wales — A most extraordinary, early season. A fine, 

 dry March, and a spell of fifteen warm, rainless days in April ; a couple of 

 "dropping ' days on the 16th and 17th, followed by dry, and positively 

 hot, weather up to date. The sallow catkins were almost over before the 

 Tseniocampse appeared. I saw only one representative of the family 

 {T. gothica) on some catkins in the neighbourhood, late ones, March 23rd. 

 On visiting these sallows again, April 5th, I found them entirely out of 

 bloom ; and so ended my sallow season for 1893. Released from catkin 

 attractions, the early moths, I suppose, had time to investigate the myste- 

 ries of gas-lamps. At any rate, I took Taeniocampse, for the first time in 

 many years, at the Chester lamps ; but very sparingly. On March 2l8t, I 

 secured a T. gothica; April 7th, a reddish form of T. instabilis, and a 

 typical specimen on the 18th; April 19th, one T. stabiiis ; on and about 

 the 19th, I got from the lamps three examples of a moth I have never 

 before taken in the district, T. populeti. Mr. A. 0. Walker records it in 

 his list for the "Wirral, scarce, but generally distributed." Such is my 

 season's record for the Tseniocampse — all told. Dlurnea fagella, Hybernla 

 marginaria (progemmaria), and Anticlea badiata replaced H. defoliaria at 

 the lamps about the middle of February, and were joined at the end of the 

 month by Anisopteryx cescularia. On March 21st and April lyth, I had 

 the good fortune to take a specimen of the dark smoky unicolorous variety 

 [fuscata] of H. marginaria. A remarkable, median variety of this species 

 I bred, February 19th, from Delamere Forest larvee. On the upper wings 

 in this specimen the area between the bent transverse line and the outer 

 margin is filled up with the smoky colour ; otherwise, the insect, with the 

 exception of the lower wings being a little darker, is a typical one. On 

 April 18th, two small specimens, but very beautiful and with dark 

 markings, of Melanip)pe fluctuata ; two Eujnthecice, which I have not yet 

 determined, as they are on the setting-board ; and another species I have 



