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months before, no reliance can be placed on the unconfirmed record, and the most 

 reasonable supposition is that the imago bred by him was Ocnerostoma piniarlella, 

 Ti.y which, although not given in Mey rick's Handbook (1895) as found in Scotland, 

 may well be expected to occur there. — Eustace R. Bankbs, Norden, Corfe Castle : 

 January 6fh, 1906. 



Re-occurrence of SterrJia sacraria, L., in the Isle of Purheck. — When partridge- 

 shooting near here on September 6th last, I happened, whilst looking for a bird that 

 I had just killed, to disturb from amongst the rank aftermath in a gi'ass meadow, at 

 about 3.30 p.m., a small yellow Geometer, which, on its settling again close to hand, 

 was instantly recognised as Sterrha sacraria. Owing to the length and density of 

 the herbage, amongst which it had taken refuge, it proved at first impossible to get 

 a box near the moth without frightening it, but after two or three ineffectual at- 

 tempts to do so, at each of which it flitted up but fortunately alighted again within 

 a few yards, the prize was, to my intense satisfaction, duly secured, and proved to 

 be a male specimen in such absolutely perfect condition that it was impossible not 

 to believe that it had been bred upon the spot. By a most curious coincidence, 

 the only other example of S. sacraria that I have ever seen alive is an equally fine 

 and perfect male that was boxed by myself exactly ten years — all but a single day — 

 previously (viz., on September 7th, 1895. See Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. II, vii, 19), in 

 the next field but one to the scene of ray recent good fortune, and only some 250 

 yards or so from the actual spot ! Then also, I happened to flush the moth whilst 

 walking in pursuit of partridges, and my brother, Mr. Arthur E. Bankes, was, as in 

 September last, an eye-witness of the capture. It seems probable that in each of 

 these years a female S. sacraria must have flown over from the Continent during 

 the summer, and that the individual that crossed my path was one of her progeny, 

 though in both seasons repeated efforts to discover others were not rewarded with 

 success. On each occasion I was, at the time, keeping a particularly sharp look-out 

 for this rarity, owing to my having previously disturbed several specimens of Aspilates 

 ochrearia (citraria), the sight of which always serves me as a special reminder 

 that its somewhat similarly coloured, though I'ather smaller, relative may occur at 

 the same time. 



When at rest, S. sacraria cannot fail to attract attention from its habit of 

 folding its wings in the same peculiar roof-like manner as Cilix glaucata (spinula). 



The two specimens alluded to above are the only ones captured in the Isle of Pur- 

 beck, and in the rest of Dorset only two others are known to have been secured. — Id. 



Phalonia manniana, F. R., in the Isle of Purheck. — The best Tortricid that has 

 adorned my setting-boards during the past distinctly disappointing season is Phalonia 

 manniana, of which I took a female specimen, slightly rubbed (probably by the net), 

 on July 14t.h last, at 7.50 p.m., by sweeping amongst the long and dense mixed 

 herbage in a bog on the Isle of Purbeck heath district. It has been my good fortune 

 to capture the only three specimens of this rarity that have been met with in the 

 County of Dorset, the others having been netted, the first in a heath-bog, and the 

 second in a damp spot bordering, and reclaimed from, the actual heath-land, in the 

 Isle of Purbeck, on June 24th, 1889, and July lOth, 1903, respectively {vide Ent. 



