ISJ. [January, 



gas lamp, but llie abundance of ivy which crowns many of the old walls, 

 and fills the hedges, has not as yet produced a single insect worth 

 boxing. When I say that all I have seen upon it have been two or 

 three Phlogojjhora meficulosa, Xanthia ferruginea^ and Flusia gnnwia ; 

 that the only moth seen flying along the road for a month past was a 

 solitary Orthosia lota, and that gas lamps produce nothing but a heart- 

 broken Antliocelis pistacina or two ; I think I have expressed the 

 lowest depths of poverty and degradation to which an unhappy 

 entomological locality could well be reduced. 



Of Pyralidce and Gmmhina I have little to tell. The one new 

 Pyralis was not kept in countenance by any other species worth 

 taking. Odd specimens of an early brood of Scopula ferrugalis ap- 

 peared in June ; this I have only once before noticed. The Cram- 

 hina were a little better. Homoeosoma sinuella appeared at Tenby 

 in June ; and in August I found what I believe to be its larva? in heads 

 of various thistles. JI. saxicola also appeared sparingly in the quarries 

 with Oncocera ahenella, and Pempelia marmorecB. Anerastia lotclla 

 w'as of course common on the coast sand-hills; and a salt marsh pro- 

 duced a single Cramhus containinellus. The eternal wind along the 

 Haven makes these salt marsh insects very difficult to disturb. 



Of Pterophori, microdacfylus^jing among EuiJatorium in the 

 evening, and the larvae of lithodactylus reducing to skeletons the leaves 

 of Inula conyza, were almost the only species noticed. 



Nearly all that I have so far remarked upon has belonged to the 

 coast district of mountain limestone, but thirty miles up the country 

 is a very different region of wild mountain heaths, where a few local 

 species are, I expect, to be found in plenty. Driving along the flank 

 of Preselly Mountain, at the end of May, I saw Melanippe tristata 

 commonly, and at the sheltered side of a bank found Coccyx vacciniana 

 flying in abundance in the sun, and settling on the Vaccinium plants 

 so quietly that I was able, wath no apparatus but a few pill boxes, to 

 secure a dozen specimens in a few^ minutes ; a month later tristata 

 was still out, and now accompanied by Acidalia fumata and Cidaria 

 populata, but vacciniana had disappeared, and the only Tortrices of 

 interest to be seen w^ere a very fine Amphysa Gerningana and the small 

 grey variety of Sericoris lacunana, which was formerly mistaken for 

 rupestrana. 



I saw there what I do not think is very common, the three forms 

 of the pretty little milkwort {Polygala vulgaris) — red, white, and blue, 

 — all growing on one bank, and united to some extent by intermediate 

 variations. 



PoDibrokc : yovember, 1875. 



