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shower of rain now and then—apparently a perfect night for ‘ sugar.’ 
The only new visitor, however, was Barathea albicolon, of wdiich we 
took a single specimen ; Heliophila littoralis turned up to the number 
of eight, and Agrotis ripae was fairly plentiful. After 11 p.m., when 
searching the grasses for anything that might be found thereon, Mr. 
May took a pair of A. ripae in cop., which proved to be exceptionally 
fine fresh specimens. This set us hunting, and we soon found several 
more pairs. Profiting by this experience, we made a practice of 
searching the grasses on our way home on subsequent evenings, and 
generally secured two or three pairs each. We noticed that the speci¬ 
mens taken this way were invariably finer than those found at the 
sugar, so that it would appear that this insect pairs almost im¬ 
mediately after emergence; unless, of course, it was a matter of 
natural selection, and only the rejected of both sexes came to our 
sugar patches to drown their sorrows in drink. We had another 
visit from the coastguard, who told us that the regulations prohibited 
the display of any light on the foreshore in the neighbourhood of 
the lighthouse, and as we had finished for the evening we politely 
put out our lights and wended our way homewards, filled with visions 
of our sugaring being put an end to, and possibly of being court- 
martialled and locked up ; we therefore decided to take the bull by 
the horns and interview the commander-in-chief the next morning. 
Early on the following day, accordingly, we walked over and asked 
to see “ the boss.” That genial gentleman soon came out, and we 
ascertained that he had no desire to spoil sport unless his sense of 
duty compelled him to do so—also that the regulations apparently 
left a good deal to his discretion. Finally we compromised by agreeing 
to leave the radiant gas lamp at home and to keep inside the ridge 
that skirted the sandhills, so that our lights would be invisible from 
the sea; this we were able to do, as our sugaring tufts were mostly 
situated on the ridge itself. 
Thursday evening (June 28th) was chilly; a south-east wind and 
heavy dew. There was very little at sugar, but one Aplecta ad vena 
turned up, also another Barathea albicolon. The next evening, too, 
was a poor one, only two or three Heliophila littoralis and a few Agrotis 
ripae being taken. The weather celebrated the close of our first week 
by delivering a first class south-west gale on Saturday evening. On 
Sunday evening there was still a stiff breeze blowing, but a fair 
number of lepidoptera strayed, like ourselves, from the paths of 
rectitude and paid a visit to our field canteens. The more important 
callers were three B. albicolon, six H. littoralis, and one more A. 
ail vena. 
Monday (July 2nd) was fine until about 8.30 p.m., when, just as 
we reached the sandhills, it began to rain ; it was a summer shower 
that lasted less than half an hour and did not prevent our sugaring. 
What it did do was to make us very wet; from the waist downwards 
we were saturated before we had been walking through the grass for 
five minutes, the heads of marram grass holding the water like brushes 
and generously distributing it whenever we knocked against them. 
We were rewarded with one B. albicolon and one H. littoralis, hardly 
sufficient compensation for the discomfort we endured. The exciting 
incident of the evening was the capture, by Mr. May, of a pair of 
Nocture, which at first sight we took to be B. albicolon, but which on 
