272 THE entomologist's record. 



find a single PacJuji/astna {Lasiocampa) trifolii. For many years I 

 have not seen a larva of this species — in the " eighties " I used to find 

 it abundant. I fear it has become almost or quite extinct with us. 

 Two Miltochrista {Calle(jenia) miniata were beaten out of hedges at La 

 Grande Mare. This pretty thing is of rare occurrence. I also obtained 

 a series of Coremia unidentaria, important, as up to the present its only 

 Guernsey representation has been an odd specimen which came to light 

 some years ago in my study. At the same time and place Cabera 

 e.i-antheiiiaria was common among sallows, another insect which had 

 hitherto been on our list, also only not on my authority but based on 

 testimony now a quarter of a century old. 



Here I may be permitted to notice other captures which have a 

 local interest apart from their true value. CraniopJtora [Acronicta) 

 ligmtri, which has only been taken once before. On August 20th 

 Scotosia duhitata obligingly flew into the house and was caught. The 

 late Mr. Luff says in his catalogue of our " macros " : " have seen two 

 specimens." Whether he means he had seen two which he was not 

 able to box, or whether, as is I think more likely, some one showed 

 them to him, and he doubted their local orii/in, must remain uncertain. 

 It was pleasant to have a nearly full grown larva of Eionorpha (Ckoe- 

 rocanipa) elpenor brought to me for identification, as this, too, has not 

 been noted before in any stage of its transformation. It was taken 

 crawling on the ground in the well known "Caledonian Nursery." 

 I^'octua siibsequa is also ana ddition to our recorded fauna. This with 

 Hyponomeuta pltunbellns I think completes the list of new captures. 



Another insect which seems to be losing ground is the recently in- 

 troduced Tortrix pronubana. I have only seen one for certain this 

 autumn. Onophos obsciirata, a scarce insect here, provided me with 

 four rather worn examples from the Goufi're on August 28rd. I have 

 never taken it, or the larva, except in this particular neighbourhood. 

 Eubolia peribolata, one of our specialities, was not abundant, nor widely 

 spread. Callwiorpha quadripunctaria (Jiera) was certamly below the 

 average in numbers, and gave me no var. flavescens. Aqrius convolvuli 

 afforded a pardonable thrill of pride, not unmixed with fear, to three 

 or four people who brought me specimens, but we suffered from no 

 invasion in force from this annual visitor. 



On my return home I was able to do a little " sugaring " daring 

 August and September in the seclusion of my own garden in town. 

 In some years I have taken good things, such as Leucania viteUina, L. 

 albipioicta, Agrotis Innic/era and Leucania piitrescens. Not so this year. 

 "With the exception of Xoctiia snbseqna and Catocala nnpta, a rarity 

 with us, all the moths were without interest. The number and variety 

 of Nuctua pronuba was astonishing, among them I picked out two or 

 three good ab. innuba. There was a sprinkling of ^octiia rubi, N. 

 wnbrosa, a few Aijrotis saticia and A. sufusa, and A. puta second brood, 

 with the usual crowd of Folia liavicincta, middle and end of September. 

 The " old ladies " drank heavily for some five weeks. Caradrina 

 quadripnmctata and C. ambifiua are always common. While on the 

 subject of the Caradrinae, it is curious to note the rarity of other species 

 of this genus. I took one C. taraxaci, July 18th, at flowers of ragwort. 

 Only the second known to have occurred here. Mr. Luff" and myself are 

 credited with one, each, of C. morpheus. As yet there is no record of 

 C. alsines. Of six fine pupas of Gortyna ochracea got from thistle stems 



