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or not at all, but where it was applied late in November, the fruit did 
suffer very much.” 
On October 18th I received some wingless grey moths (apparently 
the true Winter Moth) as specimens of a kind which existed in great 
numbers in a garden at Wimbledon, and which the writer was afraid 
would injure his Apple-trees. 
On October 28tli both male and female specimens of two kinds of 
moths were sent me by Mr. R. H. Gilroy as samples of the kinds 
which for two years had been infesting his orchards at Temple 
Laugharne, Worcester, and destroying the leaves and the fruit-crop. 
These consisted partly of the Mottled Umber Moth (see fig., p. 57, by 
which it will be seen that this moth is easily recognisable); the others 
appeared to be the Winter Moth, the well-known Cheimatobia brumata, 
with large numbers of wingless females. 
On October 31st, Mr. A. Burgum, writing from Matthews, Dymock, 
Gloucester, favoured me with the following very useful observation 
of dates of appearance of Mottled Umber and Winter Moths. He 
mentioned:—“I commenced grease-banding early in October; the 
first capture was on the night of the 11th inst. (Oct.); variety, 
‘ Mottled Umber ’; no Winter Moth captured until the 19th inst., but 
they are now becoming more numerous. I perceive they are to some 
extent depositing their eggs on the stems below the grease-bands.” 
On November 18tli Mr. 0. D. Wise reported from Toddington that, 
taking all their plantations through as last year, the Winter Moth was 
not nearly so numerous ; this is some satisfaction as showing that care 
and outlay does act. 
Mr. Ernest Cheesman, writing on November 19th from Bough 
Beech, Edenbridge, Kent, mentioned that the Winter Moths were still 
going up in large numbers, and in the orchard in pasture he had taken 
as many as thirty on one tree in a night; also that he did not see a 
single moth previous to October 24th. 
On December 3rd, Mr. T. 0. Hiatt, writing from Quinton House, 
Stratford-on-Avon, reported that he had banded his trees at Aston 
Subedge on three occasions, namely, Oct. 16tli, Oct. 28th, and 
Nov. 14th, and thousands of moths, male and female, besides small 
caterpillars, were stuck fast to the bands round the trees—222 were 
found round one Plum-tree. In previous communications Mr. Hiatt 
told me he banded fifteen acres; the material used was in part 
Davidson’s Composition, and in part this Composition mixed with 
Stockholm tar, to prevent it drying up too quickly, and he promised to 
inform me of results. 
From the above notes it appears that presence of the wingless 
moths was observed at different dates from October 11th to November 
19th, at which time the Winter Moths were still going up the trees in 
