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Durha 7 n and Saltbnrn. — So far as my experience here this summer 
goes, it has been a very poor season. Both sugar and light were 
failures; the same result happened on my journey to Scotland in July, 
though on the two or three moderately fine days we had, Geometry 
were abundant. On the other hand, at Saltburn in York, in August 
and September, sugar was very productive, so that its failure or success 
seems to have been curiously local. My Scotch friends all speak in 
the most desponding terms of their want of success. Last year was 
extremely good for sugar (or treacle, as they say in Scotland), this year 
the reverse ; perhaps next year the times will have changed again, and 
we north-countrymen shall have a better record. — T. Maddison, 
Durham. October, 1891. 
Willesden, — I visited my favourite field again this year in May and 
June, and found some species unusually plentiful, which looked as if 
the season was going to be a better one. For instance, Heliaca arbuti 
was the first to appear, and I took a very large number in fine con- 
dition ; as soon as this was over, Ino statices came on in equal !orce. 
My last visit to this particular spot was on June 20th, when by that 
time /. statices was quite a pest, for not infrequently three or four would 
be seen upon a single clover blossom ; the females then were more 
plentiful than the males. Euclidia mi was out in abundance at the 
same time, but I did not take many. Last year Tanagra chcerophyllata 
swarmed, but this year it was only just emerging when I left, being later 
than last year. Amongst other species that occurred in the same field 
was Emmelesia albulata, which was very common on one side only. A 
good specimen of Drepana hamula also fell to my net. — J. M. Adye. 
December 2nd, 1891. 
Hampshire. — Having from time to time noticed the different reports 
on sugaring this year, I might add that my experience coincides with 
several. At the end of June and beginning of July I made two or 
three attempts, and not seeing a single insect I did not repeat the 
experiment until near the middle of September, when there seemed 
some improvement, which enticed me to continue. On the 20th of 
that month the weather was unusually stormy, rain falling in torrents 
the whole day more or less, and, if anything, was rather worse in the 
evening, so having always good luck on such nights I did not fail to 
sugar extra trees. On approaching the last one with my brush, I 
observed a considerable number of specimens, which were attracted 
evidently by the sugar of the previous evening having been revived by 
the rain. I was therefore careful not to disturb them, and lighted my 
lantern almost immediately, when I counted between twenty and thirty 
on the tree. Most of them were Phlogophora meticulosa, with one or 
two Anchocelis lunosa, Xanthia silago, Orthosia macile 7 ita and two fine 
Xylina petrijicata. The other trees, strange to say, only produced a 
very few, including another X, petrificata. I took four more of this 
latter species in the best condition on other nights following. I under- 
stand that sugaring has been again very bad in the New Forest. — Id. 
Neuroptera, Trichoptera and Orthoptera. — Wicken and Neigh- 
bourhood. — As I was at Wicken this year, a great part of the time Mr. 
Tutt was there (from August 5th to 19th), a few notes on the insects 
taken in other orders than Lepidoptera may prove interesting as supple- 
mentary to Mr. Tutt’s paper on the Lepidoptera, which appeared in the 
