384 LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 



Geometry. 



OuRAPTER\x SAMBUCATA. L. Generally distributed and common. 



Epione apiciaria. W.V. Glos. Ashley Hill, Bristol, Almonds- 

 bury, and Stapleton. 



Somerset. Bath, Brislington, Portishead, 

 Wells, Weston-super-mare. 

 „ advenaria. H. Glos. Cook's Folly Woods, Bristol, 

 Near Stonehouse, Wotton-under-Edge, [Glou- 

 cester.] 



Somerset. Bath, Leigh Woods, Portishead, 

 Weston-super-Mare. Very local, but often 

 common where it occurs. Mr. W. H. Grigg 

 has succeeded in rearing a second brood, which 

 emerged in August, and differed considerably 

 from the spring brood. 



RuMiA crataegata. L. Abundant everywhere. 



Venilia maculata. L. Glos. Durdham Down, Westbury, 

 Wotton-under-Edge. 



Somerset. Clevedon, Hanham, Leigh Down, 

 Wells, Weston-super-Mare. Local. 



Angeronia prunaria. L. Glos. '^ Wotton-under-Edge, 

 very variable in colour ; the female, like that of 

 E. fasciaria, has the habit when disturbed of 

 dropping to the ground and partly closing her 

 wings.'' v.R.p. in litt. I used to take this 

 pretty moth rather freely in the woods under 

 Cook's Folly, but have heard of no recent 

 captures there, a.e.h. 



Somerset. Leigh Woods, Portishead, Weston- 

 super-Mare. 



