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poplars of small growth are, however, so extremely abundant upon 

 the borders of our warrens and streams, the leaves showing signs of 

 larvse, that I intend soon to have a night at beating ; the results I 

 shall send away to feed — my only object in collecting being to ascer- 

 tain what occurs, and what does not. 



V. Noctuce. — In this class my list for Rasen must be a short one, as 

 I have " sugared " very little. O. duplaris occurs in Legsby Woods ; 

 A. megacepJiala is moderately common about poplars on the Linwood- 

 road. There are many pools, ponds, and wet places about Rasen with 

 an abundance of TypJia — (latifolia and angustifoUa), so there is no 

 scarcity of the Leucanidse. Z, lithargyria, L. pudorina^ L. comma^ L- 

 pallens, L. impura, N. typJice, are all frequent ; T. fidva swarms in a wet 

 hollow on the road to Legsby, amongst tussocks of Carex paniculata. 

 I did not know this until a few days ago, when the imagos appeared 

 in profusion ; but now that I find it so plentiful and confined to one 

 spot, where the vegetation is of one kind only, I shall endeavour to 

 obtain the larvse or pupae next year. M. arcuosa is common in marshy 

 spots at Willingham ; H. nictitans abundant upon the thistles and 

 ragwort on Osgoldby Common ; G. grammis has appeared during 

 the last fortnight plentifully ; L. cesp'dis I noted in August on Lin- 

 wood Warren, flying over the heather ; M, literosa^ one specimen on 

 a paling at rest in July ; A. suffusa at sugar in my garden ; A. tritici 

 common on Osgoldby Warren; A. agathina occurs in the heathy 

 openings of Usselby Woods and Osgoldby Warren, in the larval 

 state. I took a few larvse in June, but failed to rear them, and T have 

 not succeeded in finding the imago by light, late at night, at rest on 

 the heather, as years ago I have done on Adel Black Moor near 

 Leeds. I do not doubt I could yet, but working alone at dead of 

 night and into the small hours of the morning, without any com- 

 panion save a pipe and a pouchful of " Three Castles " Virginia, is 

 not such inspiriting pleasant work that one feels inclined often to 

 repeat it. (This town has not, as yet, given birth to an entomologist : 

 I am an importation.) A. poypliyrea is plentiful enough in the same 

 situations as the insect just mentioned. 



Of the Tryphsense I have seen only that nuisance Promiba. Nodua 

 C, nigrum seems to be commoner here than I ever found it in York- 

 shire or Durham ; I have found as many as a dozen come to sugar in 

 one evening, whereas my former experience has been an odd one now 

 and then, at no particular time or place. T. piniperda : one at rest in 

 Willingham Wood, much worn, in May, but doubtless I came here 

 too late for it. I have, now that I know it occurs, no doubt that the 



