230 [March, 



Caradrina culicularis in February. — I took a specimen of tliis moth in my 

 sitting room last niglit. Has its occurrence in winter been preriously noticed ? — 

 C. A. BiiiGGS, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields': 24f7i February, 1876. 



Notes on the Tortrices of Fembrolceshire. — Penthlna cynoslatella, L. : I took a 

 most cliarming specimen of tlie whitest form of the var. nuiiferana sitting on a 

 hedge, in a lane near the sea clifPs. 



Fenthina inarginana {ohlongana) occui's here also, though I have seen as yet but 

 few specimens. I am still unable to persuade myself that it is at aU a rare species. 



Spilonota rohorana. An unexpected form of this species has occurred : I was 

 on the look out all the season, among the immense abundance of Rosa spinosissima 

 on the coast for (S^. amaenana, to replace my old specimens, but, to my great sur- 

 prise, did not find one. /S. rohorana, however, occurred commonly among that plant, 

 having the ordinary white ground colour of the wings strongly tinged with pink, and 

 irrorated with grey ; one or two specimens being quite suffused with the latter 

 colour. Along with it were Peronea aspersana, Sericoris conchana, and S. cespitana, 

 flying in plenty, the last named showmg the rich reddish and drab varieties, such as 

 are found on the Irish coast. 



Euchromia purpurana. Stray specimens occurred in the limestone quarries, 

 but at the end of July I found it flying commonly further down the Haven, among 

 clover and long grass, but nearly every specimen was worn to a shadow. 



Euchromia ericetana. One specimen among coarse herbage. 



Sciaphila perterana 1. Common on the coast and also on the shores of the 

 Haven, and to be found some distance inland. Apparently the same species as that 

 which is found so commonly at Folkestone, although the peculiar, almost unicolorous, 

 wliitish-grcy form seems to be entirely absent here, and the connection is maintained 

 solely by the better marked grey Folkestone varieties, and the females. Certainly 

 mine are identical with specimens that I have received several times from Lancas- 

 shlre, Paisley, and other northern localities, and which have hitherto been referred 

 to perterana with considerable doubt, from their larger size. Pembroke specimens, 

 however, vary in size, from that of the Folkestone examples to that of So. Fenziana. 

 The males ai-e all grey — darker or lighter — with fairly distinct markings ; and some 

 of them have a dark costal triangle like that upon the fore-wings of Feronea spon- 

 sana, but the females are very handsome, — white, more or less irrorated with grey 

 flecks, and with dark grey, well-defined markings, that in some individuals almost 

 cause them to rival octomactdana in beauty. In length and form of wings, and in 

 the great difference between the sexes, this species is closely allied to Fhaleroptera 

 ictericana. Its larva feeds in blossoms of composite plants — Chrysanthemum, Crepis, 

 Hieracium, Bellis, &c., in May and June. It turns down the i-ay florets of Chrysan- 

 themum leucanthemum, to form a habitation, as artistically as the spiders which lurk 

 upon the same flowers. 



Capua ochraceana. Rather common along the edge of a wood of mixed growth, 

 but without, I think, any hornbeam. Its food plant is still a puzzle. 



Ephippiphora signatana. Scarce ; only obtained among blackthorn, on which 

 I expect that the larva will be found to feed. 



Dicrorampha acuminatana. I found the May and Juno brood here quite com- 

 monly. It is well known on the continent to bo double-brooded, but, as far as I 



