244 THE entomologist's record. 



fascimicula was getting over, and was in full force in July.^ Strigilis, 

 too, is distinctly the bigger insect, and has the forewings proportion- 

 ately longer; consequently, /rt5-r«(;«(:?^/(a! always has a more "stumpy" 

 appearance when at rest on the sugar. Then again, the colour is totally 

 different in this district ; fasciimcula has two very distinct forms, one 

 red, the other brownish-clay colour, but it varies very little between or 

 beyond these two forms. StrigiUs here is nearly always black or nearly 

 so, the marbled forms occurring very sparingly. But we have no form 

 in any way intermediate between the forms o{ fasciuncula and the forms 

 of strigilis, and out of the profusion of specimens I have seen, I never 

 saw one of either species which could be mistaken for the other. The 

 markings of the two species are also different. I don't know what 

 Mr. Tutt considers the type form o( fascit/nciila, and I am quite at a 

 loss to conceive what the form is like which he describes as being 

 " perfectly intermediate and equally well named as either species " ! — 

 Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield. November i()t/i, 1890. 



,g^jjOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season (Lepidoptera). — Deal. — It will be seen, on 

 comparing Mr. Fenn's note {a}ite, p. 203) with this, that the best sport 

 we had was among the Tortrices. Among the Tineina not a great 

 deal was done, although our captures included a few good species. To 

 me, the best were Tinea simplicella and Parasia ■neuropterella, which oc- 

 curred very sparingly indeed on the chalk downs. Swammerdamia 

 oxyacanthella swarmed in some of the hawthorn hedges around Deal, 

 and a few specimens of Hypo7tomeiita cagnagellns were met with among 

 the mixed herbage by the sides of the ditches behind the sandhills. 

 What the larvse fed on there is a mystery to me. A few Orthotelia 

 sparganella occurred among Sparganium, whilst among the Depressari^e, 

 costosa, afenella, sudpropinqiicl/a, yeatiana, applana, pulcherriinella, 

 tiltiiiiella, tiervosa, badiel/a, and pastinacella put in an occasional ap- 

 pearance at sugar on the sandhills ; the larvre of D. heradiana swarmed 

 in the heads of Heradeiim sp/iondy/ium, and D. litiirella {flaz'ella) was 

 in abundance at dusk at the flowers of Centaurea scabiosa. The sandhill 

 GELECHiiDyE treated us badly. Lita blajidu/eHa (three or four specimens 

 only), L. marmorea and L. seinidecatidrella, all being comparatively 

 scarce ; Bryotropha desertella and B. terreUa were more abundant ; 

 Gekdiia distmdella was both worn and scarce, and a few specimens of 

 a second brood of G. diffinis were captured just as I was leaving. A 

 single specimen of the second brood of the beautiful Argyritis pidella 

 occurred, and a few examples of two or three species of Auaca)npis, 

 which genus puzzles me exceedingly at present. That there are some 

 undesrribed species in this group is certain. The tiny form of Tadiypfilia 

 populella (var. minor)- ixom. dwarf sallow was abundant; whilst a few 

 Brachycrossata dnetella and one Ceratophora rufescens completes a very 

 poor record of this large group. Sophronia parenthesella turned up at 

 sugar, but I saw none of the genera CEcophora and Butalis. Two or 



^ Strigilis, I know, occurs in the South earher in June than it does here, but ^ 

 suppose /flj-czwwrw/fl is also correspondingly earlier. — G. T. P. 



