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woods, and may be found in abundance on 

 tree trunks. 



Ephyra pendularia. — Not very rare in 

 birch woods. A second brood appears in 

 August. 



Corycia temerata. — Clouded Silver, May. 

 Among sloe and bird cherry, on which the 

 larva feeds. Not very common. 



Aleucis pictaria. — A very local species, 

 and occurring only in the south. It flies to 

 the blossoms of the sloe, and, perhaps, if 

 better looked for might be found in new 

 localities. 



Numeria pulveraria. — The Barred Umber. 

 May. Widely distributed, and not very rare. 

 Sometimes sits on tree trunks. 



•Fidonia carbon aria. — Only in Perthshire, 

 and Ingleborough in Yorkshire, among 

 sallow. 



The members of the genus Eupith.ecia have 

 very similar habits. They sit on palings or 

 tree trunks, fly at dusk, and they may be ob- 

 tained at flowers, or even at sugar. We will 

 name the species occurring now, and the food 

 plant, in the neighbourhood of which they 

 should be looked for. Helveticata on 

 juniper, irriguata in the New Forest, and at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne (?), pimpinellata, on 

 pimpernel. • Vulgata, white thorn, &c, 



DODONEATA and ABB RE VI AT A On oak, PU MI LATA 



and co ron ata on clematis, convolvulus and 

 other plants. Dodoneata is said to fly in 

 the morning sun. 



Lobophora hex apte rata, — Seraphim. 

 May or June. In woods on tree trunks, &c, 

 not very uncommon. 



L. lobulata. — The Early Tooth-striped. 

 On tree trunks, among willows, or where 

 honeysuckle abounds, 



L. pol y com m ata, — The Barred Tooth- 

 striped. A very local species, but not rare 

 where it occurs. It is most plentiful in the 

 Lake district. 



Thera simulata. — Is said to be double 

 brooded, the first occurring now, and the 

 second in August. It is not common, but 



may be beaten out of juniper, where it occurs. 

 We never took it except in August. 



To be continued. 



COLLECTING AT 

 HARTLEPOOL. 



By John E. Robson. 



On this ground not so many species of 

 other groups occur, as of the Noctua. Butterflies 

 are scarce, though the first Colitis Edusa I ever 

 saw, and which inspired me with a desire to 

 know more about such beautiful creatures, 

 and in fact made me an entomologist, was 

 taken here in 1858. This insect I never had 

 the pleasure of seeing alive till the great 

 Edusa year, 1877. Missing the train one 

 Saturday afternoon, I wandered up here, 

 and had the intense pleasure of taking three 

 specimens on the railway side. Southern 

 collectors, to whom Edusa is a common thing, 

 cannot imagine the delight with which I first 

 saw this insect on the wing. To take in my 

 own district, the butterfly that had made me 

 an entomologist, after nineteen years collect- 

 ing was indeed a treat. In my first year, on 

 the same ground, but on a bed of thistles 

 facing the sea, I took my first V. Cardui, 

 Jaded entomologists, whose years of hunting 

 have worn out their freshness of feeling, and 

 dulled their sense of excitement, can doubtless 

 all look back to many an occurrence in the 

 boyhood of their career, with more pleasure 

 than to captures of greater importance at a 

 later date. When I saw Cardui sunning itself 

 on a bed of thistles, I thought it the most 

 lovely thing I had ever seen, and as I slowly 

 drew near it, my heart almost stood still. 

 Just before I was close enough to strike, it 

 sailed away, without an effort seemingly, and 

 I watched it hopelessly, as it flew far, but 

 quickly as it had gone, so it returned, to settle 

 on a thistle head within my reach, as I stood 

 motionless and eager. In a moment my net 

 was over it, aud heedless of thistle prickles I 

 was down on my knees securing my capture. 



