1885.3 207 



Additions, ^c, to the Lepidoptera of Pembrokeshire. — Having just seen the 

 list of Pembrokeshire Lepidoptera in the " Tenby Guide," I have been comparing 

 it with some captures of my own within the past season. 



The following species are not mentioned in the list in question. 



Spilosoma urticce. — Larvse very abundant at Kingsmoor (and very unhealthy). 

 On September 3rd or 4th I was on a part of the Moor of a fenny character, covered 

 with Iris, Sparganium, &c., in fact, just like an ordinary fen, when I found two 

 larvae on a grass stalk. When closely examined they proved to be merely dead 

 flaccid skins. I went on searching and took about three dozen living larvae, and saw 

 about half that number dead ; all were nearly full grown, and were found on Iris, 

 Pedicularis, TrifoUum, and chiefly on Mentha aquatica. The live ones were most 

 commonly found low down on plants overhanging the wet holes and ditches. The 

 next day five died ; they were well supplied with Mentha from another place. They 

 would crawl to the top of the box, looking apparently well, would then void a little 

 liquid frass, and die in an hour or two. After the first day or two the deaths di- 

 minished to about two a day. Subsequently I brought home about four dozen more, 

 with a like result. Altogether about two-thirds died, and the rest spun up. Here 

 fresh deaths occurred, for some died in the cocoon without pupating. The result is 

 that I have only sixteen pupse. 



JEnnomos erosaria. — One specimen flew to my sugaring lamp in Road "Wood. 



Ephyra porata. — Eoad Wood, scarce. 



Thera jirmata. — Among fir, not common. Road Wood. 



Noctua Dahlli. — At sugar at the same Wood. 



Stilbia anomala. — My father first took it flying at dusk in an open copse full of 

 oak bushes and very young larches, near the same Wood. Others I took on a long 

 piece of undercliff in the parish of Amroth, where it is exceedingly rough and 

 rocky, with masses of broom growing. The first anomala flew up at my approach, 

 and I beat others out of the grass, but missed most of them from the roughness of 

 the place. Anaitis plagiata,'vihic\\yi^s also there, was confusingly like it. This 

 locality is almost impossible by day, quite so at night. 



Besides these I have found Nonagria despecta abundant on the Kingsmoor. It 

 began to fly at sunset, and then on to 9 or 9.30 p.m. Phibalapteryx lignata was also 

 abundant, and Orthotcslia sparganiella common. Diasemia literalis occurred in 

 low pastures near Wiseman's Bridge and Saundersfoot, but never commonly, and I 

 found Flatyptilia isodactylus close to Saundersfoot. I have found Bianthoecia 

 larvae very common, mainly (if I may trust the description) those of capsophila. I 

 believe that some of these must be of a second brood, as I had some unchanged 

 well into October. There are certainly two other species. 



In the Woods, besides Noctua Dahlii, N. neglecta, Agrotis saucia, Triphcena 

 fimbria, and other species were taken at sugar, and Emmelesia imifasciata, U. qffini- 

 fata, Eiipithecia virgaureata, E. subfulvata, Cidaria silaceata, and Botys asinalis, 

 have occurred in greater or less numbers. — W. F. H. Blastdfoed, Trinity College, 

 Cambridge : November ^rd, 1884. 



Further notes on British PterophoridcB. — As the habits of several " Plumes " (in 

 addition to Pterojohorus gonodactylus alluded to in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for December 

 last), in tills district evidently differ a little from those of their brethren in other, or 

 -at any, rate in southern localities, a few notes on them may not be without interest. 



