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])resent attended with very good results. Sugar once more seems to 
have regained its former attractiveness, and night after night each 
patch is well covered with visitors. At Askham Bog, close to the 
city, I have done most; Collix sparsata being very common, flying 
round buckthorn bushes at dusk, whilst Phibalapteryx lignaia ranks 
among the most plentiful of Geometers. Acronycta i Cuspidia) leporina 
(all of the variety bradyporind) has been taken in fair numbers and in 
fine condition, and last night I captured at sugar a most beautiful 
variety of Noctna rubi^ which is of a bright yellow colour. This 
species has been abundant this year. — S. Walker, York, July 1891. 
Clifton {near Bristol). — The season so far, though very backward 
through April, May, and the early part of June, has been a fairly 
favourable one, many of the common species being present in very 
large numbers and some of our uncertain visitants well represented. 
The lateness of appearance of some of the spring species as compared 
with last year is however very striking ; Tephrosia punctulata., for 
instance, which I recorded in 1890 from April 19th to May 5th, I did 
not meet with this year till May 9th, after which I continued to find 
it until June nth. Pieris rapce, P. brassicce^ and A crony eta (Cuspidia) 
psi also were three or four weeks late as compared with last year’s 
records. Sugar was an utter failure here during May : hearing of 
others’ success I shall now be encouraged to make another attempt. — 
Geo. C. Griffiths. July gth, 1891. 
Tilgate and the New Forest. — The season has not been much of a 
success with me. With Sesia sphegifoniiis I have done fairly well, but 
not much else, and they were quite three weeks late. On Thursday, 
July loth, I went for a trip to the New Forest for a few days. I did 
not find insects plentiful, nothing came to sugar, and it could hardly 
be classed as a satisfactory expedition. Limenitis sybilla was fairly 
common, Argynnis paphia var. valezma., I did not see, but had hardly 
time to look for it. Larva beating was fairly successful ; 2 Notodonta 
chao 7 iia.^ 2 N. dodonea.^ 3 Asphalia ridens.^ with Amphidasys prodroniaria.^ 
Fnnof?ios a?igularia., and E. erosaria falling into the tray. The pretty 
little Calligenia mmiata was fairly common at dusk. I had the pleasure, 
however, of making tlie acquaintance of two species new to me, i.e.., 
Acosmetia caliginosa and Macroglossa bombyliforinis. Of the former, I 
took five flying in the sunshine on being kicked up in grassy rides ; it 
is extremely local, and on being kicked up flies a short distance and 
then goes down again, and frequently will not again take flight but goes 
down to the bottom of the grass. Thus you may hunt out a corner 
they frequent until there are apparently none left, but on returning in 
an hour or so you may find more. Of M. bombyliformis I found a few 
larvae feeding on Devil’s Bit Scabious, and hard work it was hunting 
for them in the scorching sun, with a dozen forest flies as large as wasps 
or larger, flying about one. I am told it is difficult to rear ; I have 
planted the Scabious in a pot and put the larvae on it under muslin. — 
A. Robinson. July 14M, 1891. 
Hants., Wmchester. — In one little night expedition I first picked up 
three beautiful Angerona priuiaria, one 2 who has laid a few eggs — 
this insect I have never taken here before ; they are of a rich orange 
throughout, without the dusky margin. I then put my sugar on, and 
on the way back took Bisulcia ligustri flying round an ash tree ; she 
