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me to the same neiglibourhood on May 27tli, and I was fairly fortunate 

 in my captures of the small fry. Among the larger species Scoria 

 dealbata occurred, whilst Zandognatha grisealis was well out. E. alhulata 

 was rather rare, C. taminata and C. corylata very mixed, some fine as 

 ever, some worn to shreds ; E. porata rather worn ; C. taminata, Liijdia 

 adustata, Melanthia ocellata, Asthena lufeata in fine order, the first fairly 

 abundant ; whilst Eupithecia exigiiata, a lot of Pechipogon harhali><, one 

 Drepana falcnla, E. decolorata, three Lithosia aureola, one Acidalia 

 Hubsericeata, Coremia unidentaria and others fell to the beating stick. 

 Cidaria russata and Ephyra omicronaria were common, but scarcely a 

 specimen was wortli boxing. Euclidia glypliica was getting well over, 

 but I took one with the two transverse lines united into a strong 

 central band. Procris statices was Avorn to shreds already; Aspilates 

 strigillaria also. The fine weather had kept them almost constantly on 

 the wing, and this probably helped matters. I got a fair number of 

 ToKTRiCES, in fact I had quite a field day with Phoxopteryx diminntana, 

 which occurred freely in almost every sallow bush. Argyrolepia ceneana 

 still remained rare among the ragwort, and I got a single Lohesia serviUana 

 about sloe and one Seraasia icceherana among crab-apple. I remember 

 someone (Mr. Gregson, I believe) suggesting that this was an imjiorted 

 species, but it must have been imported a good many years ago into 

 these woods, probably at the time we got our i)resent fauna after the 

 glacial epoch. I get the species every year, and I daresay it would be 

 common enough if I stayed of an evening, to work for it at dusk. 

 Nemophora metaxella and Cryptohlahes hifitriga were also netted, the 

 latter from oak. Strenia clathrata and M. montanata, Lohesia reliqnana, 

 and Phoxopteryx obtusana were particularly abundant, as also was the 

 second brood of L. a'geria. 



On Jxme 3rd Scoria dealbata was fairly common, and I took a fine 

 series of Emmelesia alhidata and A. hdeata, together with a few good 

 specimens each of Z. grisealis, Eupithecia casligata, E. plumbeolata, 

 S. clathrata, L. marginata and I. lactearia. A fine freshly emerged 

 S. malooe was also taken, whilst good specimens of P. barbalis, E. 

 omicromaria, C. corylata and E. ghjphica were to be got by selection. 

 Corycia taminata was still common, whilst fine single specimens of 

 Ephyra punctaria, E. porata, L. aureola, Erastria fuscida, and 31. sociata 

 were captured. The place was alive here and there with Argyrotoxana 

 conioayana, whilst P. jjmniana, Plycholoma lecheana, Tortrix ministrana 

 and Scoparia amhigualis were also abundant. C. histriga again occurred, 

 as also S. woeherana, whilst P. corticana, Eadopisa nigricaua were captured, 

 and P. mitterpacheriana and P. diminntana still occurred. Half a dozen 

 A. ceneana represented the largest catch I made of this species in one 

 day during the season. Eucosmia nndulata, Angerona prunaria and 

 Drepana falcnla fell to the beating stick, whilst L. (egeria occurred 

 commonly in one ride only. Aspilates strigillaria and Eubolia palumbaria 

 were both getting worn, whilst H. sylcanns was still in abundance 

 everywhere. The best catch of the day, however, was a single specimen 

 of Argynnis selene, caught in a locality which has been worked closely 

 for the last 50 years, and where tlie species has never been seen before, 

 A good supply of Tineina helped to complete the day's total. 



On June 7th, in the same locality, the males of Bomhyx rubi were 

 in gi-eat abundance, dashing wildly about in every direction. Scoria 

 dealbata was practically over ; L. (jegeria more abundant than ever ; 



