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On the three first nights after my return home, viz., October 10th, 11th, and 

 12th, Sterrha sacraria paid ns a visit. All three were females, and have laid eggs ; 

 but I am afraid that the lateness of the season will make it a hard matter to rear 

 the young larvae, as my experience in 1867 showed how susceptible they are to the 

 first frosts.— John T. D. Llewelyn, Ynisygerwn, Neath, 13th October, 1869. 



Agrotis saucia, Sfc, in the New Forest. — I have sugared in one of the enclosures 

 near Lyndhurst, from September 2nd to 9th (omitting Sunday), and again on 

 September 21st and 22nd. The weather on all the intervening days was so stormy 

 that no sugaring could have been done, had I been here, which fortunately, I was 

 not. Moths have been common as a rule, and Agrotis saucia has appeared every 

 night in greater or less numbers. The variation among them is extreme, and many 

 examples are very handsome : the normal saucia is common now, and I daresay 

 will continue to be so, if nights are favourable. The other insects I have taken 

 are T. batis (a second brood, of course), C. diluta (abundantly, it was on every 

 tree), T. fimbria (still out), A. pyramidea (abundant), N. glareosa, A. puta, H. 

 croceago, and C. nupta, sponsa, and promissa, the two last being, of course, much 

 damaged and scarce. The later species are just beginning to appear, and on the 

 21st, H. rhizolitha, A. rufina, lunosa, pistacina and litura, and X. silago were out, 

 all for the first time this season ; last night again (the 22nd), these were joined by 

 one H. petrificata, and I had also the pleasure of boxing a fine specimen of Epunda 

 nigra fresh from the pupa. — W. A. Lewis, (at present at) The Crown, Lyndhurst, 

 September, 1869. 



Ohosrocampa Celerio at Weston-super-Mare. — A very fine specimen of C. Celerio 

 was brought to me on September 16th, by a lady, who caught it at rest in her 

 drawing-room. — M. A. Mathew, Weston-super-Mare, September 30th, 1869. 



Acronycta alni at Derby. — On the 19th of August, I took a larva of A. alni, 

 which spun up the next day in an elm leaf. It was crawling on some railings 

 under wych-elms. I found one last year on the same road, but it was injured and 

 died. — G. Baker, 47, Kedleston Street, Derby, September, 1869. 



Eupithecia fraxinata at Edinburgh. — A few larvae of this rather scarce species 

 were beaten out here at the end of August. Some were full-fed, and three belonged 

 to the coloured varieties. — Andrew Wilson, 21, Young Street, Edinburgh, 16th 

 September, 1869. 



Aplecta occulta at Edgware. — In the first week in September, I took a single 

 specimen of Aplecta occulta at sugar in my garden, and since my note of the 15th 

 September (page 114), I have taken three more specimens of Agrotis saucia. 



It may be worth noting that of a dozen C. nupta which I have taken at sugar 

 this autumn, ten have been upon one particular lime tree, the only side of which 

 that I can sugar faces the north-west. I have regularly every evening, when I 

 have been at home, sugared two large oaks and two limes in my garden, and have 

 taken only one nupta upon one of the oaks, and one upon the other lime tree. 

 The four trees are only a few yards apart, and upon them I have taken this year 

 and last between sixty and seventy species of Noctuce. — Arthur Cottam, Stone 

 Grove Cottage, Edgware, October 1st, 1869. 



