NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 
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Epione advenaria is common in a certain wood near here, but I have 
not taken it this year. — (Miss) A. J. Marindin. 
St. Annds-on-Sea . — We are having a rattling season here both with 
macros and micros. The larvae of Orgyia fascelina and Leucania littoralis 
have turned out better this year than before ; sugar has also succeeded 
much better this season. Acronycta ( Viminid) rumids, Miafia fasduncula^ 
M. strigilis var. (zthiops^ Mamestra albicolon, Agrotis corticea, Leucania 
comma, Hadena adusia, etc., turning up with hosts of other commoner 
insects. The micros that have turned up and still are coming, are 
Gehchia temetdla, G. sororculella, G. artemisiella, G. 7narmorea, G. 
u?7ibrosella, G. mundella, Tinea i/nella, Dep7'essaria conta)7iineIla, D. 
assi77iildla, G. desertella, etc., together with a lot of common ones. The 
T. imdla we get in one little spot only a few feet square, evidently been 
an ash heap once, now covered over with grass, and in this spot they 
fairly swarm. We got a very red Triphoena orbona'\h.Q other night, 
about the reddest I have ever seen, also one or two funnily marked T. 
pronuba. Dep7'essaria liturdla is just coming out and we have got a few 
already. G. teme7-dla up to now seems to be very abundant, having 
only appeared a day or two ago. — H. Baxter, St. Anne’s-on-Sea. 
July \^th, 1891. 
The South Coast. — Although, in common with the majority of our 
collectors this season, short records of my doings have appeared in these 
columns, the following notes may be read with interest, especially by 
those who have been able during the same period to collect in the same 
district ; and I trust, also, by many further away, to whom any information 
even as to our commoner species, is interesting reading, and to whom 
we southerners are indebted for so many good things. In the first place 
although it is by most agreed, that, to “ prophesy unless you know,” is 
risky, yet I must congratulate myself that my prognostications of a good 
season, have in my own experience been quite justified by the result, 
and I trust all my entomological friends have been equally successful, 
in which case I think the Postmaster-General may look forward with 
confidence to a “ boom ” in the returns of the Parcels Post Department, 
and the exchange columns of the next few numbers of the Record will 
be found useful during the busy time of re-arranging and enlarging 
series to which we all look forward as such a pleasant finish to a good 
season’s work. The general opinion seems to be, from our experience 
of this season after the phenomenally severe winter, that such old- 
fashioned and seasonable winters are favourable to the prospects of the 
lepidopterist, and I trust we may, next year, have the opportunity of 
further confirming this opinion. 
Owing to other engagements I was unable to do much collecting 
during the early part of the year, and in fact did not leave home till the 
beginning of June. I had the opportunity, however, towards the end 
of May, through the kindness of friends, of getting news from what, in 
former seasons, I have found to be a stronghold of a favourite little 
butterfly with me, Ne/neobius lucma, viz., Wychwood Forest in 
Oxfordshire, to which, through the courtesy of Mr. Wynne, I have free 
access. In former seasons in some of the flowery glades, I have been 
able to take as many as six in my net at a time, flying freely over the 
primroses although settling rarely on anything except the bracken ferns, 
with which the glades are bordered. My friends were rather early, and. 
