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legist, who related it to me. Together with a friend they had been 

 sugaring some trees in a wood some miles from human habitation. It 

 was getting dark, but not sufficiently so to light their lanterns and 

 examine the sugar. A smoke was suggested, and for this purpose they 

 proposed to adjourn to a small log hut. The companion of my friend, 

 in pushing open a rude door, suddenly drew back, saying somebody 

 was hanging in the hut. They struck a light, and much to their 

 horror discovered the body of a woman hanging from the roof. She 

 was perfectly dead. They felt themselves in a dreadful position, but 

 wisely concluded to at once make for a police-office, some miles off, 

 and state what had happened. The result of a coroner's inquest, 

 which of course they had to attend, elicited the facts that the woman 

 was a kind of travelling pedlar, who was last seen at a public-house 

 about a mile off. It was concluded that she had entered this hut and 

 committed suicide. Nothing so terrible happened to ourselves, but to 

 a great extent I can sympathise with my brother, and always preferred 

 company on the rounds. 



Unfortunately I have not a complete record of our captures during 

 this visit. Most of the insects mentioned as taken in June the year 

 before were still 'out, and Sponsa, Promissa, Aureola, Miniatay 

 Momcha, Dipsacea, Fmcula, and hosts of To? trices and TinecB may be 

 added to the list. Sufficient has been said, however, I think, as to 

 the profusion of lepidoptera to be collected in the neighbourhood of 

 Brockenhurst, to make our younger members long to pay it a visit ; 

 should this be the case, I would say by all means do so, and I only 

 hope they will derive as much pleasure as myself, and in after years 

 be able as I am now to recall the weeks passed there as amongst the 

 happiest in their memory. 



Huyton Park, 



Near Liverpool. 



Nola cristulalis and Agrotera nemoralis m Kent. — The little Nola 

 cristnlalis seems rather common here ; I saw at least about twenty 

 specimens on about six trees. On May 24th I took ten lovely specimens 

 of Agrotera nemoralis in East Blean Wood ; they were just out. — J. P. 

 Barrett, Margate. 



Anarta melanopa. — This moth is plentiful on some of the Scotch 

 mountains this year. I have just added to my collection a beautiful 

 series taken there at the end of May, and have also a nice brood of larve& 

 feeding on sallow and knotgrass. — Geo. T. Poeritt, Huddersfield. 



