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The only Notodonta I have taken are palpina and chaonia, though I 
dare say there are others there. l J . bucegkala, T. derasa, very com¬ 
monly, bat is not so plentifully, possibly if I sugared in other parts it 
would turn up in numbers. ( '. ocularis, one specimen only. There 
is, however, plenty of aspen in the woods, and this year it is my 
intention to sugar in closer proximity to them, and if successful I will 
make a point of duly reporting it to the Society. A. diluta, in plenty 
and in some variety, one specimen that I exhibit to-night I think is 
especially interesting — I have never seen another like it. I bred it 
two years ago from a batch of larvae beaten from a solitary oak-tree 
standing in the middle of a field well outside the woods. 
A. psi, L. conigera, lithargyria comma, impura, pollens, X. rurea, 
with plenty of the var. combusta, lithoxylea, monoglyplia, including 
some nice dark forms, hepatica sometimes swarming at sugar in June, 
N. popularis, flying in quantities to the light, C. cytherea, L. testacea, 
A. gemina, with its var. remissa, didyma in endless variety, M. strigilis, 
fasciuncula, furuncula,arcuosa, C. trigram mica, C. blanda, qnadripunctata, 
B. tenebrosa, A. puta, stiffusa, segetum, exclam adonis, N. glareosa, plecta, 
c-nigrum, brunnea, festiva, rubi, xanthographa. All the Tripliaena 
except subsequa. It may be remembered that I exhibited a long series 
of pronuba from this district and that they showed a very wide range 
of variation. A. pyramided, tragopogonis, M. typica, maura, all the 
Taeniocampas except opima, populeti and miniosa. 0, lota, macilenta, 
A. rufina, pistacina very commonly indeed. A. lunosa, commonly, 
both the dark and light forms, litura, C. vaccinii, spadicea, S. satellitia. 
This insects abounds at the sugar in the autumn, but curiously enough 
I never seem to beat the larvae out. Is the explanation of this possibly 
that they feed on the higher portions of the trees ? A', cerago, typical 
only. I have not yet seen a specimen of the var. flavescens, such as 
we take in Richmond Park, Jiavago, am-ago sparingly at sugar, 
ferruginea, D. oo, and its var. renago. This species I suppose represents 
the best thing I get here, I take them regularly each year during the 
first half of July, and always at sugar; I have never tried light for 
them, I should be glad to hear whether others have taken them in this 
way. Curiously enough the var. renago, seems to be equally plentiful 
with the type, and the specimens I exhibit will give a good idea of the 
beautiful dark forms I get. The species comes very readily to sugar on 
a good night and comes early, but does not stay long. I sugar quite 
a long beat and when I have got it on I positively have to gallop 
round to effect my captures. 1 have reared it ab ovo, but not with 
great success as it seems sulky in captivity, at least that is my 
•experience. I have sometimes sugared when the conditions seemed 
against insects coming and have yet taken perhaps a dozen or so of oo, 
practically no other visitor has come to the sugar, which would seem 
to show that it is less easy to please in the way of weather than the 
other insects that are undoubtedly about at the same time. 
C. tragezina sometimes swarm and show some variety, their plenti- 
tude hereabouts is well illustrated by the fact that when larvae beating, 
the tray is often full of them. 
Of the Dianthcccias I have only so far found capsincola. I have 
beaten the larvae of C. viminalis quite plentifully from the sallows 
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