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A. Segetum. — Not very common in woods, rank pastures, and waste places 

 about North London. June and July. 



A, Exclamationis. — At sugar, light, and kicked up by day, 01 by moth- 

 ing, in woods, fields, waste places, and gardens. Very abundant all about 

 North London ; I have counted 70 on one tree. 



A. Corticea. — Saw this common at sugar in Mr. Bernard Cooper's gar- 

 den at Higham Hill, Walthamstow, August, 1874. 



A . Nigricans. — On flowers of Rumex and Arctium in rank pastures. Not 

 very common. Camden Town, North London. August. 



A. Porphyrea. — Bare, flying over heather, on heaths and in woods 

 (Denny Wood, New Forest.) July. 



TripHjENa Janthina. — At sugar, light, and on flowers of Arctium lappa, 

 July and August. There is a remarkable but by no means pretty variety (?) 

 to be obtained by breeding, much smaller than captured specimens. Not very 

 common. Fields, lanes, gardens, and woods about North London, and at 

 Lyndhurst. 



T. Interjecta. — At sugar. Rare. Woods in the New Forest. August. 



T. Subsequa. — At sugar. New Forest. Generally distributed and com- 

 mon in 1871. July and August. This insect looks much narrower on the 

 sugar than T. orbona ; it is also rather more variegated in appearance than 

 ordinary orbona. 



T. Orbona and Pronuba. — In addition to light and sugar I have taken 

 these on flowers of Arctium lappa in a rank pasture. 



T. Fimbria. — Abundant at sugar in the New Forest. July and August. 

 The larva also abundant in the woods at Hampstead and Highgate, but 

 between 1870 and 1875 I only heard of the capture of one perfect insect, 

 which I saw taken by Mr. Y. B. Lewes, in Bishop's Wood, at sugar. 



Noctua Glareosa. — Saw specimens in the possession of Mr. G. Tate 

 taken at sugar, in Park Ground enclosure, New Forest, in September. 



N. Plecta. — Rare, At rest on sugar and bred. Camden Town, Mus- 

 well Hill (Middlesex), and New Forest. May and August. 



N. Augur, — Two single specimens at sugar, beginning of July. Woods 

 and lanes near, the second specimen in a garden, probably escaped from my 

 breeding cage. The larva common on hawthorn, oak, and sloe (rather grega- 

 arions), in April and May, about Highgate. More liable to emerge slightly 

 deformed than any other insect of this genus, except N. xanthographa. 



N. C-nigrum. — Rare according to my experience. At rest on window-cill 

 and at sugar. Camden Town, Bishop's Wood, Park Ground Inclosure, New 



