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Tortrices, in this way with the net. The last week the wind was 
chiefly southerly, we did not have one good night at light, and only one 
or two fair ones. The wind was on three or four evenings very high, 
and on one occasion Bertie nearly got buried under the sheet which 
collapsed. Sugar, however, paid the last three nights, the last night, of 
course, proving the best. However, taken all round, we got a fair 
return for the labour put in, and brought home a large number of 
insects. There were some strange appearances. The beautiful May 
weather had tempted many of the early species to try a second brood, 
apparently in many cases successfully. The earlier Nocture were 
much earlier than last year, but the changed conditions of July had 
made the later species rather later. In the following captures it may 
be understood that I took charge of the sugaring and netting depart¬ 
ment whilst my son made almost all the captures at the light. 
During the day time, a second brood of Papilio machcioii was in 
abundance, as many as forty being taken by an entomologist during 
one day. This is in striking contrast to last year, when scarcely a 
specimen of a second brood occurred. Larvse of all sizes, and pupae, 
were also to be found at the same time. Pieris 7iapi was abundant in 
the Ten ; the two other species, rapce and brassicce, in the gardens of the 
village. Colias edusa was seen once or twice, but was common at 
Cambridge. Gonopteryx rhamni was apparently fairly plentiful, whilst 
Cynthia cardui , Vanessa at a lant a, V. urticce and V. io were everywhere. 
The hedges were alive with Ephiephele tithonus and E. janira , whilst 
Chortobius pamphilus, Polyo7n??iatusphlceas and Lycce7ia icarus occurred 
on the green in front of the house where I stayed. I saw Satyrus 
7negcera in the orchard, and this, I think, completes my observation on 
the Diurnal fauna. 
In the Nocturni, most of the captures were made at light. S7nerin- 
thus populi (evidently a specimen of an autumn brood) was bottled, 
and larvae of Chceroca7npa elpe7ior of various sizes noticed on the ditch 
sides. Macrogaster arundinis came to every sheet but ours (it was the 
same last year), only odd specimens, of course, owing to the lateness of 
the season. Hepialus huTnuli males swung merrily right in the heart 
of the Fen, whilst Nudaria se7iex was captured at early dusk, its ap¬ 
pearance at that time in abundance almost always presaging a dewy 
evening and an entomological collapse at dark. It also came late to 
light. N. 77iundana occasionally at light in the Fen, but this species 
can be best captured with the hand-lamp in the “ droves ” outside the 
actual“ Fen.” Lithosia griseola occurred sparingly at light, but more 
freely the last few nights at sugar, whilst its var. sirammeola was rare. 
We took three only between us. L. lurideola was not common. Larvse 
of Euchelia jacobcece were reducing the Se7iecio to ribbons, whilst Chelo7iia 
caia now and again showed up at light. Arctia fuligmosa occurred as 
a second brood : we got some four or five specimens at light. One larva 
only of Spilosoma urticce, occurred, and though I nursed it because I 
did not know the habits of the animal, it acted contrariwise and died. 
Liparis aurifiua was everywhere, and an occasional L. salicis at light. 
Bombyx neustria on one night came in crowds. We boxed and bottled 
two or three dozen, and I consider them one of the best results of the 
trip, owing to their variation. But Bertie did better in this line with 
Odonestispotatoria. He took some five dozen specimens, comprising 
no less than four yellow males, one or two males almost of the colour 
