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wild apple, elm and oak. — A. Taylor, 
7, Campbell Street, Hall Park, Maida 
Hill, London ; Oct. 22. 
Some Captures near York. — (An ad- 
dendum to those recorded at pp. 19 and 
20 ) : — 
Acidalia Inornata. End of July and 
beginning of August. 
AcronycLa Lepovina. A fine male at 
sugar; August 24. 
Cheimatobia Brumata. October 12. 
Epione Apiciaria. October 13. 
The last two are somewhat singular 
illustrations of the exceptional character 
of the season, and they seem to indicate 
that whilst cold and inclement weather 
has the effect of retarding the develop- 
ment of insects peculiar to summer, it 
has the contrary effect of hastening the 
development of those peculiar to winter: 
that these two apparently opposite effects 
should be produced by the same cause 
seems, at first sight, somewhat para- 
doxical ; but a closer investigation and 
consideration will show that it is but 
reasonable, or at any rate consistent with 
the fact that some insects are peculiar to 
warm weather and others to cold weather. 
It is certainly a singular fact that so 
delicate an insect as Brumata, or even 
Dilutata, Defoliaria, Aurantiaria, Pro- 
gemmaria, Ruficapraria, JEscularia, Leu- 
cophearia, &c., &c., should be peculiar to 
cold weather, whilst so many robust- 
looking animals should belong to the 
warm. — J. Birrs, York ; October 15. 
Captures at Light. — I took a few spe- 
cimens of C. Xerampelina, also a very 
fine L. Cespitis and E. Cervinaria, in 
beautiful condition. I took the last 
Xerampelina, in beautiful condition, on 
the 22nd of September, and might have 
taken more had they not stopped lighting 
the lamps. — J. T. Carrington, Clifton, 
York ; October 16. 
Notes on Captures at Deal. — Before I 
leave the coast of Kent I must send you 
a few notes which I have made during 
the last two months. To begin with the 
butterflies, — no Colias Edusa, no Pieris 
Daplidice ; of Cynthia Cardui there have 
been a few seen, when by chance there 
was a’ few hours’ sun— a rare sight; of 
Polyommatus Agestis and Alexis (gene- 
rally so common here in their second 
brood) I do not think I have seen a 
dozen of each ; I found but one larva 
of P. Agestis on the crane’s-bill ( Erodium 
cicutarium), so rare have they been. By 
the bye, has any one yet taken the larva 
of P. Agestis on the Heliantliemum, after 
so many statements of that being their 
food-plant? The lives of many of the 
day-flyers have been prolonged to a late 
period; during the few hours’ sun on the 
4th of the present month I saw the 
Burnet, P. Corydon, Hipparcliia Janira, 
with Vanessa Io and Atalanta, Cynthia 
Cardui, Vanessa Urticee and Gonepteryx 
Rhamni, all flying at the same time, in 
very good condition ; of the larva of 
V. Lo (usually so common here) I have 
seen but one small brood. Many Noctu® 
have been rare at sugar, though Plusia 
Gamma and the Angle-shades have 
been perfect pests. More things came 
to the sugar during the present month 
than all the summer: C. Nigrum, in 
swarms; Aporophyla Australis, rare; 
Agrotis Saucia, several ; Calocampa Ex- 
ole ta, common ; Hydrcecia Nictilans, 
Agrotis Tritici, Orthosia Lota, Catocala 
Nupta, with several others ; but what 
appears strange is the rarer the moths 
have been the commoner are the larvae : 
I have never seen larvae so abundant as 
this year; of Smerinthus Ocellalus and 
Cerura Vinula it seemed as if the more 
were taken the more came; twenty-six 
dozen of the larvae of S. Ocellalus were 
taken on the sand-hills ; of the Tortrix 
Argyrolepia maritimana none were to be 
found in the spring, but I see the larv® 
are now very numerous, and just full fed. 
For Hymenoptera it has been a bad sea- 
son : as to the wasps I have seen but 
one, which I took in June, with its wings 
