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and as we try to capture it, it suddenly vanishes from sight. It is a swift 

 moth (Hepialus lupulinus), and has a trick of falling down suddenly aud 

 resting half-way down the grass stems. There goes another one! Here it 

 is you see resting on the grass stem just as I said, I marked where it went 

 to as you struck at it with your net. Now we will walk on towards the 

 wood. Here are some more swift moths, but I think not the common ones. 

 There ! I have caught one, and, as I suspected, it is the golden swift moth 

 Hepialus hecius). You observe both have pale bands on the fore-wings. In 

 this last one these bands are parallel, but in the common swift moth they are 

 not so. 



As the darkness deepens, the moths come out in increased numbers, and 

 it is time to look at the trees we have been treacling. Here we have a per- 

 fect beauty revealed by the light of our lantern. It is the peach blossom 

 moth (T/iyatira hatis), and we have made a good beginning. A large yellow 

 looking moth is the next to make its appearance, and we discover it is the 

 common yellow underwing {Tryphana pronuba), and wish it was its rarer 

 brother the broad bordered yellow underwing (T. fimbria). Then comes a 

 little pale grey noctua, with wings delicately tinged with rosy. It is a cer- 

 tainly a Miana, and pretty certainly M. lilerosa. Many other moths continue 

 to come out, as the blackish brown Miana strigilis, the ochreous and brown 

 Mamestra anceps, the blackish brassier and persicaria, the last very con- 

 spicuous with its white reniform stigma, but both so common as not to be 

 worth capturing. 



As we return homeward we see other moths flying about. One reddish 

 ochreous moth which we capture at a bed of dead nettles turns out to be 

 Lencania conigera. We are not in the locality for tnrca, or we might look 

 after that species too. There are others of the genus out now, as the local 

 reed-haunting obsoleta, the pale ochreous comma, the rare marsh-loving stra- 

 minea, and the common impura and pallens. 



Cambridge. 



THE SYNONYMY OF C^ENOBIA RUFA, HAW. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



Messrs. Eobson and Gardner in their List of Lepidoptera with regard to 

 Ccenobia rufa, Haw, use the following synonymy : — 



despecta, Tr., 1825 s 



rufa, Haw.,? 1810. 

 Haworth's description is as follows alis oblongis ciliisque rufis unicolori- 



