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ing its wings on the palings. Also to be taken about flowers of Chenopodium 

 and at light. Highgate and parts of the northern suburbs of London. June 

 and July. 



E. "Vulgata. — On fences, walls, gas lamps, and by mothing in gardens 

 and fields. All about North London, especially Highgate. May and June. 



E. Extguata. — Once bred from a larva found on birch at Bishop's Wood, 

 Hampstead, in the autumn. 



E. Coronata. — On fences at the beginning of July. Millfield Lane, 

 Highgate, only once, and at Yarmouth (South Town, Suffolk), August, 

 1879, on a garden wall, near a magnificent Clematis plant. 



Lobophora V iret at a. —A t sugar, August. New Forest. Rare. At 

 rest, Bishop's Fence, Shirley Mayes. 



Melanthia Rubiginata. — Once flying about alder on an evening in July. 

 Matley Heath, New Forest. 



M. Ocjsllata. — Beaten out of bramble, &c, by day, also by mothing, and 

 at sugar. May to August. Highgate, Hampstead, and woods about Lynd- 

 hurst. Not very common. 



M. Albicillata. —Flying in the skipping fashion peculiar to so many 

 Geometrse, over and near Rubus fruticosus, in the oldest portions of the un- 

 enclosed woods (Denny Wood and Hollands Wood, New Forest), also at 

 sugar and beaten by day. July. Commoner than the last. 



Melanippe Unangulata. — One, resting on a leaf in the Lowestoft High 

 Road, Suffolk (near Bradwell), August, 1879. 



M. Subtristata.— May to July. By beating and mothing, and at sugar. 

 Highgate, Hampstead, and New Forest woods and plantations. 



M. Montanata. — By beating and mothing in May and June. Bishop's 

 Wood, Hampstead (used to be common), Combe Wood, Surrey, and Pond 

 Heod Inclosure, Lyndhurst, also West Wickham Wood. 



M. Fluctuata. — May to July. At rest on walls, leaves in hedges, &c. 

 fences (near the top), on gas lamps, by mothing, and on flowers of low plants 

 in fields, gardens, and lanes everywhere. August and September. 



Anticlea Badiata. — By mothing, beating by day, and at rest on fences. 

 April. Cricklewood, Middlesex, and near Lyndhurst (Beechen Lane.) Not 

 very common. 



A. Derivata. — By mothing near wild rose, and on fences near gardens, 

 also by beating. April and May. Highgate, and Beechen Lane, Lyndhurst, 

 also Cricklewood. 



