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out of about thirty, sixteen were taken on one morning. Among the 
“ Plumes ” Alarasmarcha phcEodactyla and Aciptilia baliodactyla were 
extremely abundant. The disappointment of the visit was Lithosia 
caniola, of which we only took one specimen. In a good season, 
Torquay would well repay a visit, but sugaring, upon which so much 
depends at Torquay, was far from being productive, except on two or 
three nights this year. — E. C. Dobr^e Fox. October, 1891. 
Folkesto7ie. — Anchocelis rufina was very plentiful here at sugar in 
September, together with a few Xanihia ferruginea, A. pistacina, 
Agrwpis aprilma and Agrotis puta, while X. silago was swarming one 
evening at the scabious flowers. — E. W. Brown, Shorncliffe Camp, 
Folkestone. 
Newbury. — I have not been able to work very constantly or regu- 
larly here this season, except in June, early July, and the end of last 
month. Most weeks I have had but one evening’s collecting, and it is 
hardly fair to judge a season from such casual experiences, but I should 
on the whole consider the season a good one, except for sugaring, 
which with me has been a total failure. Some insects appeared here 
in considerable numbers, which before have only occurred singly, 
Lobophora sexalisata, Lithosia mesomelia, Acidalia einarginata and 
Platyptilia bertrami for example. L. sexalisata flies immediately before 
dusk ; all my specimens were taken among sallow. Acidalia emargin- 
ata I found by searching bramble hedges after dark, they hang with 
outspread wings from leaves and twigs, and are very conspicuous by 
lamp light. P. bertrami is usually taken only after dusk. In a piece of 
swampy ground hundreds of this species were flying at night early in 
July, but hours of laborious beating in the daytime failed to disturb a 
single specimen from among the heather, rushes and yarrow {Achillea 
ptarmica). The little swamp I speak of yielded a nice series of Nudaria 
sc7iex, some Leucania pudorina, Schrankia turfosalis, and Hypenides 
costcestrigalis, all fresh additions to our local list. Butterflies appear to 
have been very scarce, especially the Va7iessidcB, but the great failure of 
the season here has been the sugaring ; throughout the summer it has 
been curiously unproductive. In June some Gra77wiesia trilhiea and 
Mia7ia strigilis were attracted, and three or four nights early in July 
yielded about two dozen LeucaTiia turca, but this was the only species 
present, although sugaring produced such good results at this very 
time at Reading and elsewhere. I tried six different hunting grounds 
in this district but met with the same disappointing results in them all. 
The last week in September proved slightly better, but even then the 
insects were few, my largest “take ” on a single night being 5 Xa7ithia 
cit7'ago, 2 Cerastis vaccmii, 2 ATichocelis lu7wsa, i A. rufi7ia, 10 A. 
litiira, 2 A. pistacma, i Catocala mipta, and 2 Ag7iopis aprilma . — 
M. Kimber, Cope Hall, Newbury. October 6th, 1891. 
Marlborough. — I was at Marlborough for a week at the beginning of 
August. Instead of Noctua depimcta, which I meant to take, persistent 
sugaring produced 2 Triphce7ia pro7iuba and i Noctua xa7ithographa. 
I netted nice series of Pero7iea aspersa7ia, P. variega72a, P. schalleria7ia 
and Pcedisca sola7idria7ia', and took Scoparia ce77ibrcB and Cra77ibus 
falsellus singly. In the flower heads of Valerian ( V. officmalis) I found 
numbers of EupithecicB larvae, which, from descriptions, I believe, will 
prove to be Eupithecia. valeria7tata, a species only added to the 
