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woods, and one or two at sugar. A. straminafa, by brushing the heath 
during the afternoon and evening — a good series. After finding the 
larvae of Boarmia roboraria last year, I have been following it up this 
summer, and have taken the moth freely in the same woods, at rest on 
tree trunks (often high up), stretched out as big as it can make itself and 
easily seen. I got two more Argynnis paphia var. m/esina, both in 
our beech woods, and three others have, I hear, been taken among the 
beeches some sixteen miles from here. Heterogenea limacodes and Aventia 
jiexula^ beaten from oak bushes and trees. Anticlea cucullata has 
turned up again this year. Two I got were quite in the wood among 
Asperula odorata, I wonder if it ever feeds on that. Eupoicilia flavi- 
ciliana, netted again on the same hill as last year. A fair lot of 
Nonagria geminipuncia. Se/e/it'a /unaria, hea.ten from bushes in June. 
Lithosia mesome/la, L. aureola, Asthena blomeri, A. sylvata, Hepialus 
sylvinus, Lobophora lobulata, Tephrosia conso?iaria, T. hiundularia, 
Eupisteria oblitaria, Cerigo matura, Nociua stigmatica, and D rep a fiu- 
lidce are some of the things which were particularly abundant. Zo7iosoma 
Imearia was especially swarming, and, as Dr. Buckell remarks, out a 
long time, from the middle of June till the end of August. At the end 
of July, and throughout August, they took to coming to sugar in 
scores. Zonosonia omicronaria, Eupithecia venosata, Coremia qiiadri- 
fasciaria, Anticlea rubidata, Lobophora halter ata, L. viretata, Acidalia 
inornata, Enmielesia decoloratq, Ftilodontis palpina, Hyria 7?iurinata, 
Erastria /asciana, Epione advenaria, Liparis 77ionacha, Dia7ithoecia 
nana, Lithosia co77ipla7ia and others were tolerably frequent. Cidaria 
silaceata, Eucos77iia undulata, Boar7/iia consort a7’ia, A crony eta {Cuspidia) 
lepori/ia, Llalias bicolor a7ia and Sarothripa undnla7ia occasional. Stau- 
being so abundant this year, I thought that there was an unusually 
good opportunity to look out for the little ways of the animal. A 
grand moth like this ought to do something to distinguish itself, but 
it does not after all. It was found at all hours of the day, from early 
morning until dark, on all sides of the tree and at all heights from the 
ground. Three out of four moths were found on small trees ; but 
then, our beech woods, though of old standing, are cut severely, and 
there are twenty small trees to one of fair size, so that says nothing. 
S. fagi seems just to come out and sit on a tree in a very common- 
place fashion. They were found over a period of two months, from 
the middle of May till the middle of July. Eggs of these, laid on 
June 2 nd, began to hatch June i8th. The little larvae ate nothing 
for a day or so, then fed up well sleeved on apple. They often fought 
when they crossed each other’s paths, and a number lost legs or por- 
tions of legs in these battles ; but this loss did not always prevent 
their pupating, whether it will interfere with the proper emergence of 
the moth, I cannot say. In hunting for the larvae of S. fagi, it paid 
better to search than to beat. Like the moths they are to be found 
for a long time. I got them fully grown at the beginning of August, 
and lately, I have taken some quite young ones, which will evidently 
feed as long as the leaves remain good. I have found them in nearly 
all our woods, mostly on beech, but some on birch and oak. These 
fagi did not spin up in the green leaves on the tree, as Newman says, 
but always in dead leaves at the bottom of the sleeve, on the side of 
the sleeve itself, and in the woods I have found them crawling on the 
