gQ [February, 



meadow which produces almost as much of the food plant (yellow rattle) as grass. 

 Seen also twenty years ago, but accidcntly omitted from my previous list. 

 *Operophtera brumata, the larv£B are not very common. 



*Euchoeca obliterata (heparata), one. E. sylvata, one ; both species beaten 



out of alder. 



*Astheiiacandidata,\-iot common. *A. dilutata {filigrammaria, autumnaria), 



a larva. 



*Xanthorhoe bipunctaria, Dr. Disey took one far from any chalk or limestone. 

 *Leptomeris marginepunctata {incanata, promutata), Mr. Chichester took one 

 on a rock at Woolacombe, Mr. A. L. Onslow another on a wall at Lundy Island. 

 *Euchloris lactearia, two. 



*Opisthographis Uturata, several in young fir plantations. 

 *Ectropis consonaria, two on tree trunks. 

 Selidosema repandata, three of the banded variety, conversaria. 



Pseudopanthera punctata (temerata), several. *P. bimaculata (taminata), 



Mr. D. A. Onslow took one. 



*llybernia defoliaria, a larva. 



*Biston Mrtarius, two larvaj. *i?. betularius, one at light. 



*Metrocampa prosapiaria {fasciaria, prasinaria), two in young fir plantations. 



*3I. pulveraria, one taken by Mr. A. L. Onslow. 



*Colotois pennaria, larvse. 



*Oonodontis bidentata, two ; also a larva on lichen of the light green and black 

 variety. Such larvae were erroneously recorded in my first list as those of Cleora 

 lichenaria. 



Lasiocainpa quercus {eallunai), Mr. Image took a fine female on August 13th, 

 and a full grown larva the next day. 



*Argynnis adippe, a few. I think this must have been previously overlooked 



among the far more numerous A. aglaia. *A. euphrosgne, rather common. 



*Melitcea aurinia (artemis), quite abundant in a very restricted area, by no 

 means co-extensive with the distribution of Scabiosa succisa, a plant very common 

 in the district. 



Vanessa io, the only one of the genus that has been at all common this year. 

 \_Apatura iris, a very definite report reached me that a specimen was seen 

 between my house and the sea ; the locality, in spite of the sallows, seems most 

 unlikely. The insect has, so I am told, been noted at Barnstaple.] 



*Hesperia malvcB (alveolus), rather common. This makes 34 species of butter- 

 flies that I have taken within this small area. 



*Pempelia dilulella (adornatella, subornatella) , common amongst wild thyme 

 near the sea. Of the adornatella form, but very gi-ey in colouring, the crimson 

 being almost absent. 



Crambus pinellus (pinetellus), the habits of this species are very different from 

 those of its congeners ; I have never kicked it up from herbage, but have always 



beaten it out of hedges, most frequently perhaps from elder. C. perlellus, this 



year in some numbers, it is an early species. C. geniculeus, here on rocks, or 



among short grass, &c., but in my father's garden at Wandsworth, many years ago, 

 I always beat it out of Cedrus deodara and other conifers. This species, and the 

 more abundant culmellus appear to me to be distinctly gregarious. 



