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Close, raiuy nights I have found to be the most favoured ; after one 

 such I counted nearly 500 prisoners of various kinds. The trap stands 

 facing due north, which with our prevailing S.W. winds is an advantage, 

 as I have continually found that insects fly against the wind rather than 

 with it, especially Noctuse. — C. J. Nash ; Standish Vicarage, Stonehouse, 

 Gloucestershire. 



Notes on Sugar in the Cotswold District. — Seeing Mr. Fitz- 

 gerald's interesting account of the insects he has taken at sugar, and being 

 distant only about ten miles from his district, Dursley, I mention below 

 some of the Lepidoptera that I have turned up here at sugar in the last 

 season. Although ten miles is a comparatively small distance, still it is 

 enough to make some difference in the species that occur. The mixture I 

 use is beer, foots-sugar, and essence of almonds ; the latter I find very 

 attractive. During all May and part of June I was absent from home, 

 but from the middle of June to the end of August I sugared some fifty 

 trees with the following result, which, though fair, might have been 

 better: — Leucania comma, L. pallens, L. impura, Xylophasia sublustris, 

 X. polyodon, X. lithoxylea, X. hepatica, Cerigo matura (only one ; last year 

 plentiful), Grammesia trigrammica var. bilinea, Thyatira batis (a single 

 specimen), Leucania lithargyria (in numbers), Hydrcecia nictitans, Agrotis 

 exclamationis (a pest), A. segetum, Noctua augur, N.plecta, N. festiva and var. 

 confiua, N rubi, N. umbrosa, Amphipyra tragopogonis, Mania typica, M. 

 maura (very scarce), Mamestra brassicm, Apamea basilinea (one), A. didyma 

 (a pest, in great variety), Euplexia lucipara (scarce). In addition to the 

 results at sugar, the following may be of interest : — Choerocampa porcellus 

 (not scarce), Plusia iota, P. v-aureum, Aplecta advena, at the flowers of the 

 honeysuckle. At the raspberry blossoms, which were more than usually 

 attractive, these were the chief insects netted: — Leucania impura,L. pallens 

 Habrostola tripartita, H. triplasia, Plusia iota, P. gamma, P. chrysitis. In 

 the woods and high ground near here the following species made their 

 appearance: — Argynnis aglaia, A. adippe (scarce), A. paphia (very abun- 

 dant, some actually flying about in cop.), Vanessa c-album, V. atalanta, V. 

 cardui, Melanargia galatea, Thecla w-album (one), T. rubi, Lyccena icarus, 

 L. agestis, Hesperia thaumas (this, with M. galatea, was especially abun- 

 dant on one day only), Macroglossa stellatarum, Euchelia jacobacB (larvae 

 most abundant), Nemeophila plantaginis (scarce), (Aplecta nebulosa (on tree- 

 trunks), larvae of Cucullia verbasci, Toxocampa pastinum (flying in the long 

 grass at dusk, and attracted by light), Metrocampa margaritaria, Zonosoma 

 linearia, Asthena blomeri, Tephrosia biundularia (scarce, though usually 

 plentiful), Strenia clathrata Minoa murinata, Melanippe procellata (one), 

 Eubolia bipunctaria, Anaitis plagiata. Larvae have been rather scarce, the 

 best find being one Notodonta ziczac ; not having taken of these in the 

 larval stage before, I was agreeably surprised. This completes my list, and 

 it is one with which T am well satisfied.— C. G. Nash ; Standish Vicarage, 

 Stonehouse, Glos. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Hampshire. — Between Aug. 11th and Oct. 2nd 

 sixteen specimens were taken by me at Christchurch. — A. Druitt; Christ 

 church, November, 1895. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Essex, 1895. — I took a fine example of this 

 moth, hovering in front of honeysuckle in my garden at 10.30 p.m., on 

 Sept. 3rd.— Gervase F. Mathew; Dovercourt, Essex, Nov. 19th, 1895. 



