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found Hurymus edusa along the coast and cliffs in great numbers, but 
most difficult to get near. Although unable to come upon any 
Hurymus hyale there, his little boy, aged six, a few days back, secured 
one (without net) in a road at West Hampstead just off the Hdgware 
Road. I have, in accordance with the Editorial suggestion, antea p. 
252, used the synonymy worked out by Mr. Prout in the ‘‘ London 
hist” (Trans. City Lond. Ent. Society, 1899 and 1900).—H. Arnsiiz 
Hit, F'.Z.8., F.H.S., 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, W. October 
4th, 1900. 
LepipopTeRA IN THE YorK pistRict.—-The season seems to have 
been good so far as my limited time has permitted me to get out and 
work. I hada couple of turns for Mpione vespertaria larve in June, 
and found them fairly common, and about full-fed by June 21st. 
The first emergences took place on July 7th—both sexes. Mr. Ash 
and I spent two pleasant evenings in the middleof July, and they both 
proved good for F. vespertaria, which were flitting freely about between 
10 and 11 o'clock. Geometra papilionaria and Acidalia inornata 
were also rather common on the same nights. Abraxas wulmata 
aberrations were curiously scarce this year, only one of the leaden-blue 
form, I believe was seen. I took some very nice aberrations, however, 
on a second visit with Mr. Ash, one, a great beauty, with the wings 
slightly suffused, the nervures being white, giving it quite a radiate 
appearance.—S. Watxer, York. September Tth, 1900. 
Leprpoprera at Oxton.—I do not think Callimorpha hera was as 
common this year as last, but its range has certainly become extended, 
and I have taken it here this season, ‘between five and six miles from 
its headquarters at Cofton, and also in the lanes adjoining.  Ache- 
rontia atropos also seems fairly common as I have had five pupe and 
two larve dug here up to date. Aryyresthia anderreggella and Teleia 
humeralis were again taken commonly in August, in the same localities 
as last year, but Coriscitum sulphurellum and Leptogramma literana, which 
were so common last year, have been very scarce. Sugaring on August 
20th,in Dawlish Warren, with Mr. Bower, we took Lithosia caniola which 
I have not seen there previously myself. Has anyone else? Only one 
Caradrina ambiqua came to sugar, so I suppose it was scarce here this 
season, as well as in other places. Later on we took twenty Acidalia 
marginepunctata sitting on grass-stems, and could have taken many 
more, but had come to an end of our boxes. In July I took about 
ewenty Hupithecia toyata in a fir wood here, also a few LH. debiliata, 
and about thirty Nemotois minimellus, a new insect to me. On the 
whole I should say the season here has been fairly good, but insects 
have had to be worked for, and certainly the light fraps have not paid 
as well as usual, except for Lithosia sororcula and Notodonta trimacula, 
whilst many things one ordinarily looks for have hardly occurred or 
been entirely absent.—H. F. C. Srupp, M.A., F.E.S., Oxton, 
Exeter. October 5th, 1900. 
Lirpiportera at Marker Drayron anp Cannock Cuase.—Again 
following up my notes (ante., p. 801) I have to record that the 
attractiveness of sugar until August 8th was very marked—Noctua 
brunnea, N. baia, Dyschorista suspecta, Cleoceris viminalis, Triphaena 
jimbria, Noctua castanea, and N. dahlii were all very numerous, whilst 
Triphaena pronuba and Xylophasia polyodon were perfect pests; I did 
not, however, see many dark specimens of the latter species, only two 
