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moss yielded beetles by the thousand. By cutting tufts I obtained Tropiphorus 
carinatus, Bembidium mannerheimii, Anchomenus oblongus, Bradycellus dis- 
tinctus and harpalinus, Stenus juno, Lathrobium longulum, Philonthus inter- 
medius, Mylsena kraatzi, Lamprosoma concolor, Scymnus mulsanti, and Chilo- 
corus renipustulatus. Perhaps my best captures were those taken in moss, 
which included Coenopsis^fissirostris, Ccenopsis Waltoni, Cassida nobihs, Cas- 
sida obsoleta, Orobites cyaneus, and Carcinops minima. I may add, my field 
of work was within a two-mile radius of Hastings and St. Leonards ; had I 
extended my collecting ground farther abroad, I might have had a much 
nobler list to present.—G. D. Turner. Hastings, 9th March, 1894. 
Notes on Autumn lepidoptera. —Fine as the weather was at the beginning 
of last autumn it failed to bring out a profusion of butterflies, on the contrary 
they were scarcer here than for many preceding seasons. Many butterflies 
that are usually plentiful in the autumn were scarce or did not appear at all. 
I did not observe a single specimen of G. rhamni, although I captured hyber- 
nated specimens early in the year; this insect as far as my experience goes is 
never common here probably owing to the scarcity of its foodplant. I never 
heard of either of the “clouded yellows ” being seen in Suffolk last season. 
Both V. urticae and V. polychloros were rather scarce, the latter more so; V. io 
which is usually so abundant was quite rare, I only observed two or three 
specimens during the whole year ; V. atalanta w*as plentiful, but in a less degree 
and I never saw a specimen of V. cardui. C, pamphilus, P. phlaeas, and L. 
alexis, were abundant. During the past season I have sugared in various 
localities but the only place I met with tolerable success was in Bentley Woods. 
I first sugared there on September 15th, and notwithstanding a heavy lain the 
moths came freely to the sugar. On that night captured the following .— 
Cymatophora diluta, Agrotis puta, A. suffusa, A. segetum, Noctua C-nigrum, 
N. xanthographa, Anchocelis rufina, A. pistacma, A. litura, Cerastis vacinii, 
Scopelosoma satellitia, Xanthia silago, X. cerago, X. ferruginea, (abundant), 
and Hadena protea. I sugared the same trees again, on October 7th.; the 
evening turned out very warm and close and the moths literally swarmed. I 
took the following:—Agrotis segetum, A. suffusa, Noctua C-nigrum, N. dahlii, 
Orthosia macilenta (abundant), Anchocelis rufina (common), A. pistacina, A. 
litura (abundant), Cerastis vacinii (abundant), Scopelosoma satellitia (common), 
Xanthia silago, X. cerago, X. ferruginea, Miselia oxyacanthe (common), 
Agriopis aprilina (common,) Phlogophora meticulosa; This was the best 
evening I had in the year. At light during the Autumn I have taken Paecilo- 
eampa populi, Nonagria lutosa, Agrotis puta (common), Gortyna flavago, 
Heliophobus popularis, Luperina testacea (common), Noctua C-nigrum (abun¬ 
dant), Xanthia gilvago, X. silago. The “ thorns ” were represented by Enno- 
mos tiliaria, E. fuscantaria, E. angularia, and Himera pennaria. The other 
geometrae I took included :—Cidaria miata, Chesias spartiata, Hybernia auran- 
tiaria etc. I spent several evenings at ivy hoping in vain to come across that 
rarity Cerastis erythrocephala ; Altogether I took about a dozen species of 
Noctuae at ivy blossom including Xanthia gilvago ; I took also several speci¬ 
mens of Cidaria miata. I might mention that I took Cymotaphora ocularis 
and Dipthera orion, at rest, about the beginning of June.—E. Baylis, Burrel 
Rd., Ipswich. 
London Entomology in 1893.—At Kentish-town in a garden, I caught the 
following in 1893. June 13th, spinach moth; 15th, poplar hawk; ibtii, 
female wood leopard, large yellow under-wing, mottled rustic ; 17th, swallow r - 
tail moth, buff ermine, male wood-leopard; July 7th, cabbage moth ; 8th, 
feathered gothic. At the end of May and during the whole of June, there 
were clouds of magpie moths, and in September, several red admirals were 
seen, one of which I caught. In August, I took several gamma moths. In 
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the larvae of the vapourer moth was abundant, but I did 
not see a perfect single insect. Also here, I took the large yellow underwing, 
