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On the three first nights after my return home, viz., October 10th, 11th, al 
12th, Sterrha sacraria paid ns a visit. All three were females, and have laid egL' 
but I am afraid that the lateness of the season will make it a hard matter to n 
the young larvae, as my experience in 1867 showed how susceptible they are to t 
first irosts. —John T. D. Llewelyn, Ynisygerwn, Neath, I3th October, 1869. 
Agrotis saucia, 8fc., in the New Forest. — I have sugared in one of the enclosuii 
near Lyndhurst, from September 2nd to 9th (omitting Sunday), and again 
September 21st and 22nd. The weather on all the intervening days was so ston 
that no sugaring could have been done, had I been here, which fortunately, I wl 
not. Moths have been common as a rule, and Agrotis saucia has appeared evet 
night in greater or less numbers. The variation among them is extreme, and mai 
examples are very handsome : the normal saucia is common now, and I daresi 
will continue to be so, if nights are favourable. The other insects I have tak 
are T. hatis (a second brood, of course), C. diluta (abundantly, it was on eve 
tree), T. fimbria (still out), A. pyramidea (abundant), N. glareosa, A. puta, 
croceago, and C. nupta, sponsa, and promissa, the two last being, of course, mu 
damaged and scarce. The later species are just beginning to appear, and on t 
21st, H. rhizolitha, A. rufirta, lunosa, pistacina and litura, and X. ailago were oi 
all for the first time this season ; last night again (the 22nd), these were joined 
one H. petrificata, and I had also the pleasure of boxing a fine specimen of Epum 
nigra fresh from the pupa. — W. A. Lewis, (at present at) The Crown, Lyndhuri 
September, 1869. 
Choerocampa Celerio at Weston-super-Mare. — A very fine specimen of C. Celer 
was brought to me on September 16th, by a lady, who caught it at rest in b 
drawing-room. — M. A. Mathew, Weston-super-Mare, September 30th, 1869. 
Acronycta alni at Derby. — On the 19th of August, I took a larva of A. ah 
which spun up the next day in an elm leaf. It was crawling on some railinj 
Tinder wych-elms. I found one last year on the same road, but it was injured ai 
died. — G. Bakek, 47, Kedleston Street, Derby, September, 1869. 
Eupithecia fraxinata at Edinburgh — A few larvae of this rather scarce specii 
were beaten out here at the end of August. Some were full-fed, and three belonge 
to the coloured varieties. — Andrew Wilson, 21, Young Street, Edinburgh, 161 
September, 1869. 
Aplecta occulta at Edgware. — In the first week in September, I took a sing 
specimen of Aplecta occulta at sugar in my garden, and since my note of the 15t 
September (page 114), I have taken three more specimens of Agrotis saucia. 
It may be worth noting that of a dozen C. nupta which I have taken at sugi 
this autumn, ten have been upon one particular lime tree, the only side of whic 
that I can sugar faces the north-west. I have regularly every evening, when 
have been at home, sugared two large oaks and two limes in my garden, and ha\ 
taken only one nvpta upon one of the oaks, and one upon the other lime trei 
The four trees are only a few yards apart, and upon them I have taken this yea 
and last between sixty and seventy species of Noctuw. — Arthur Cottam, Ston 
Grove Cottage, Edgware, October 1st, 1869. 
