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gestions will be duly attended to when the records are completed, and 

 any hints or comments will be welcome in the meantime. 



No systematic records of sugaring have been attempted before, 

 and we must not expect to solve all the problems connected with it in 

 one season. If we learn enough to show in what direction our investi- 

 gations should be made, it will be very satisfactory for one season. 

 I hope to complete the publication of the selection I have made of 

 this year's records in the present volume, after which I will tabulate 

 them in different ways. 



I had intended to print such records as were selected, strictly in 

 order of date, but one or two have reached me since the last appeared, 

 that being of earlier date, are from localities of different character, 

 and in a different part of the island. I therefore print a few of these 

 early ones, which are interesting for comparison with others on the 

 same dates in other places, and incorporate the others as far as 

 possible in their places. 

 York. — 21st March, 1893. 



Wood, near Strensall, of birch, oak, beech, &c. ; wind N.E. ; sky 

 obscured. Had been a very hot sunny day. I sugared 46 trees, but 

 not a single moth appeared. Tree trunks were searched before dark 

 without any result. Three sallow trees in full bloom produced 1 T. 

 cvuda and 1 stabilis ; a second shaking gave me 1 gothica. A few H. 

 progemmaria were about the hedges. — W. Hewett, York. 

 Market Weighton. — 1st April, 1893. 



Houghton Wood ; wind N.E., cloudy ; a few drops of rain fell up 

 to 11 p.m. after which there was heavy rain for four hours. Sugared 

 about 100 trees, principally fir. Result : 1 C. vaccinii and 1 T. cvepus- 

 cularia, a worn female, which has laid me about 200 eggs, which 

 hatched on 18th April. At rest I took 1 L. lobulata, and on the wing 

 1 C. suffumata, an early date for both species. — Id. 

 York. — 19th April, 1893. 



Wood, near Strensall; wind N.E. ; cloudy, but dry. Before dark 

 I found 3 T. biundularia on beech, 10 L. lobulata chiefly on birch, 

 one 9 being of a beautiful greenish colour with brown band across 

 the wings. I took 1 T. unidentaria on the wing. I sugared 50 trees 

 which produced C. vaccinnii 6, 5. satellitia 2. — Id. 

 Doncaster. — 19th May, 1893. 



Open ride at side of wood ; wind S.W., slight ; sky variable, from 

 overcast to clear, with young moon ; atmosphere damp, heavy rain 

 about 8-20 when I was applying sugar ; it seemed an ideal evening 

 for sugaring. I suppose notices of such out of the way things as Bufo 

 are acceptable. Results : C. porcellus 1, A. basilinea 1, R. tenedbrosa 1, 

 A. nimicis 2, G. libatnx i, Bufo vulgaris 1. — Dr. Corbett, Doncaster. 



