260 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



were probably two series of vars. of Arctia caia, the first including 

 three with golden yellow hind wings, and a fine dusky specimen not 

 specifically mentioned in the catalogue, realised 37/0 ; the second, a 

 somewhat similar lot, but not quite so strongly marked, 21/-. Lalia 

 coenosa went for 5/6 each. A lot of eight Acronycta strigosa, with four 

 A. auricoma and others, 22/-. It was surprising to see a well-known 

 dealer buying Pachnohia alpina at a shade over 3/6 each ; whilst eleven 

 specimens of Toxocampa craccce, with sixty-seven other insects, only 

 fetched 6/- the lot. An asymmetrical male Angerona prunaria, with a 

 long series of pretty but not particularly striking forms, fetched 45/- ; 

 and a fine dark Abraxas grossulariata 50/-. The two cabinets sold very 

 well, a 40-drawer Gurney £27 6s., and a 36-drawer Brady £16 16s. 

 I much regret to see the preliminary announcement of the dispersal 

 next autumn of Mr. C. A. Briggs's fine and well-known collection. It 

 is not long since I had the pleasure of looking over it, and I think I 

 may say without question that it will be the finest sale held since 

 Howard Vaughan's, a good many of whose specimens it contains. — 

 Thos. Wm. Hall ; Stanhope, The Crescent, Croydon. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Collecting in the New Forest. — I was staying at Lyudburst from 

 May 22nd to June 1st with Mr. A. D. Wilson, and below is a list of some 

 of our captures during that time : — Rhopalocera were fairly scarce, 

 Argynnis euplirosyne and Gonopteryx rhamni being far the commonest. 

 Argynnis selene, Hesperia sylvanus, H. tages, Syrichthus alveolus, Lyccena 

 argiolus, Thecla nihi and Euchloe cardamuies, were also on the wing : but 

 we could not come across any Nenieobius luclna, although we went to 

 Stubby Copse, and met entomologists who had taken some specimens the 

 day before m splendid condition. The moths taken during the day were: — 

 Macroglossa fuciformls (flying over the rhododendrons at the Rhinefields), 

 Scodo7iia belgiaria (on a heath near Lyndhurst we took over four dozen, the 

 males and females being in equal proportions), Lithosia mesomella, L. 

 aureola, Euthemonia russula, Tanagra charophyllata, Euclidia mi, E. 

 glyphica, Anarta myrtilli, Ephyra punctaria, E. trilinearia, Venilia maculata, 

 Anaitis plagiata, Tephrosia consonaria, T. crejouscularia, Melanthia ocellata, 

 Odontopera bidentata, Cidaria comma-notata, Drepana falcula, D. un- 

 guicula, lodis lacteria, Corycia temerata, Ellopia J'asciaria, Fidonia 

 atomaria, F. piniaria, Thera obeliscata, Larentia pectinitaria, Hylophda 

 praslnana, and Fhytometra cenea ; while Ligdia adustata, Coreuiia pro- 

 jmgnata, Lithosia aureola, were taken at dusk. We sugared every night, 

 but the results were not nearly as good as we expected. The nights were 

 very cold and misty, and this may have had something to do with the 

 scarcity of moths at the sugar. We got however the following moths :— 

 Moma orion (only one perfect specimen), Apdecta herbida, Grammeda 

 trilinea, Thyatira balls (the commonest moth at sugar, and in very tine con- 

 dition), Noctiia f estiva, Miana strigilis, Agrotis exclamationis, Acronycta 

 viegacephala, A. psi, Gonopjtera libatrix, Tephrosia extersaria, and Melanippe 

 montanata. Larvse were very abundant, especially during the first two or 

 three days, but most of them were ichneumoned. By beating the oaks we 

 obtained over fifty larva of Catocala sponsa, smd only three C.promissa; 



