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a member of the Entomological Society on the ClifF, who had walked there from 

 Lnlworth, where he had taken a few specimens in no better plight than mine. 



Gnophos ohscurata. — This species seems to be tolerably common at Bourne- 

 month. I also met with the pale variety (pullata) at Portland. 



Pseudopterpna cytisaria. — Common in some of the chines on the road from 

 Weymouth to the Burning Cliff, and abundant among heath at Bournemouth. 



Acidalia rusticata. — I took this delicate little " wave " pretty freely among red 

 dead nettle and Iris fcBtidissima growing at the foot of a cliff at Portland. It seems 

 to be an excessively local insect, as the specimens that I captured (39 in all) were 

 all taken within the area of about one hundred square yards, and I could not find 

 the species in any other part of the island. Its food-plant, the whitethorn, was 

 growing sparingly in the neighbourhood. It is a diflScult insect to obtain in fine 

 condition, as it has when disturbed a habit of diving to the bottom of the herbage, 

 whence it is not an easy task to secure it undamaged. 



Acidalia osseata. — A very abundant species at Portland, occurring among a 

 variety of different plants ; but at Weymouth, in places where the nature of the 

 ground and the vegetation seemed to be identical with that of the island, I could 

 not obtain a single specimen. 



Acidalia proniutata. — Two specimens on the underside of nettle leaves, Port- 

 land. Acidalia indtaria. — Common at Portland amongst Rosa spinosissima. 



Acidalia degeneraria. — Of this scarce insect I was fortunate in securing twelve 

 specimens at Portland ; they were, however, for the most part much worn — I was 

 not early enough to take them in fine condition. As I took them in different parts 

 of the island, and on various shrubs and plants, I can form no conjectm-e as to the 

 food-plant of the larva. The species is readily seen ; it sits upon the upper side of 

 the plant in which it is found, or on the face of the rocks. It is weak on the wing, 

 seldom flying more than a few yards at a time. Portland is an excellent locality for 

 the genus Acidalia. I have taken as many as eight different species there in a 

 single day. 



Pachycnemia hi/ppocastanaria. — At Boui'nemouth. Larentia olivata. — Several 

 specimens at Portland. Emmelesia decolorata. — One speciman at Portland. Ev/pi- 

 thecia centaureata. — Two specimens at Portland. Eupithecia nanata. — I was rather 

 surprised to meet with this species at Bournemouth so late in the season ; I never 

 remem.ber to have taken it anywhere, before, later than the middle of June. This 

 year, however, it has occurred at Wimbledon Common at the beginning of the 

 present month (August), from which I infer that it is occasionally double-brooded. 



Melanippe galiata. — Several at Portland. Euholia palumbaria. — Abundant at 

 Bournemouth. Euholia bipunctaria. — Excessively abundant everywhere on the 

 coast. Agrotis porphyrea. — Several, near Bournemouth. Hypenodes costcestrigaUs. — 

 One specimen at Bournemouth. Cledeoiia angustalis. — Common at Portland, also 

 at the Burning Cliff. Pyrausta punicealis. — One specimen at Portland. He^-bula 

 cespitalis. — Common on the turfy slopes opposite the landing pier at Portland. 



Stenia punctalis. — Not uncommon at Portland, chiefly among Iris foetidissima, 

 Hydrocampa stagnalis. — Abundant at Bournemouth. Botys asinalis.. — Two speci- 

 mens at Portland in the crevices of rocks. Ebulea crocealis. — Common at the 

 Burning Cliff and (less commonly) at Portland. Scopula lutealis.'- — Common at 

 Osmington, Dorset. Scoparia (f). — Two or three species at present in 



