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for Messrs. Buckler and Hellins, and noticed that the butterflies while in confine- 

 ment drank frequently from a wet sponge, besides feeding on treacle, and I think 

 it possible that it will be found advantageous with other species, when trying to 

 get eggs, to supply them with water. 



Larvae of 0. fascelina and antiqua, B. rubi and Saiurnia carpini occurred on 

 the heaths ; and what I suppose to be D. coryli on birch. 



Of the Geometrw, I may mention Larentia olivata, common early in August; 

 Eupithecia pulchellata, satyrata, nanata, and absynthiata, the larvse of which fed 

 on fox-glove, Erica, cinerea, Calluna vulgaris, and rag-wort respectively ; also Eup. 

 sobrinata by mothing on a heath. Though I several times examined the seeds and 

 flowers of Angelica sylvestris, I failed to discover any trace of albipunctata or 

 trisignaria. 



The larvae of T. juniperata were not scarce, but many were ichneumoned. 

 Thera variata struck me by (contrary to the usual rule) being paler than in the 

 south ; the imago and small and large larvae occurred on the same day (August 

 23rd). 



No Drepanulai or notable Pseudo-bombyces. Of the Noctuai, a good many 

 species occurred ; the following are the best — A. leporina, larvae ; A. myricce ? 

 larvae (if I breed the moth I will send a further notice) ; C. graminis, N. xantho- 

 grapha, A. valligera (1), and M. fasciuncula (2), all on rag- wort flowers in full 

 sunshine. M. literosa, sugar, August 15th — September 10th; A. cursoria (accom- 

 panied by X. polyodon, T. pronuba, L. orbona, and S. a.nomala) burnt out of the bent- 

 grass (Psamma arenaria), August 11th and 21st ; A. nigricans, at rest, August 22nd, 

 in a greenhouse ; A. precox in the same, August 14th ; also orbona, tritici, tragopo- 

 gonis, &c. This formed an excellent trap: the moths getting in at night, and being 

 unable to get out, were found at rest in the day time. The prwcox was stowed 

 away amongst the leaves of a small species of Tropmolum ; the glaucous green of 

 the leaves being so like the colour of the moth that its discovery was quite an acci- 

 dent. A. tritici, common, mothing, especially after 11 p.m., one or two at sugar, 

 August; A. agathina, common, flying in the evening on a heath, August 20th to 

 September 8th (a friend took one at sugar) ; Triphcena orbona, marvellous red and 

 black varieties, quite unlike southern specimens ; T. subsequa (1), worn, at sugar, 

 September 15th (this may be distinguished from orbona by the narrowness of the 

 fore-wing) ; N. glareosa, August 17th — September 18th, on the wing, and at sugar ; 

 N. conflua, August beg.-mid., sugar ; N. Dahlii, sugar and flying, August 10th to 

 September 18th ; N. neglecta sugar, in a pine wood, and at heath-bloom, August 

 20th — September 4th ; N. ccanthographa, very dark varieties, and one with the 

 stigmata very large and almost confluent ; Euperia fulvago (1), at sugar, September 

 7th, and one at " Cossus sap," September 16th. (I may here say that Mr. Norman 

 pointed out to me that moths may not only be often found belovj the sugar, but a 

 foot or two above, or on the other side of the tree, and, in the case of C. exoleta 

 and C. vaccinii, hanging on to the twigs nearest to the sugar. This is more fre- 

 quently the case on some nights than others ; sometimes more will be found a 

 foot off the sugar than on it). Polia chi, common at rest on white walls, where it 

 is difficult to see, and also on dark pine trunks, where it is very conspicuous, 

 August 24th to September 11th (Mr. Norman took two at sugar) ; Epunda nigra, 

 at sugar, at rest on pine trunks and on and among pebbles on a gravel watt, August 



