June, ISVto. : 3.29 



on a strip of I'ough iindercliff, aud a larva found feeding in a spun 

 shoot of Sedum telephium just beyond tbe limits of Purbeck pi'oduced 

 a fine Cn. pnscuana. Special attention was paid to Dichrorampha 

 senectana, aud by working "like a black" in its horribly steep and 

 rocky haunt, whenever the weather made success at all possible, I 

 si;cured a few, but, as usual, veri/ few, and a part of them in worthless 

 condition : it has surprised me to find that its true flight time is ap- 

 parently'' in the late evening when the spot has for long been in deep 

 shade, though it has also been taken on the wing in the late afternoon 

 when the last gleams of sunshine were giving place to shadow. As 

 Chrtjsanthemum leucanthemum, which is doubtless its food-plant where 

 I meet with the insect, grows there very sparingly, my courage has 

 not yet been suiBciently screwed up to institute a search for the 

 larvae in the roots, for fear of exterminating the species,* as well as its 

 ally Z>. acuminatana. On August 4th I had the pleasure of netting four 

 examples of D. qucesfionana, Z. (= alpinana, Wilk.), am.ongst tansy ; 

 this is a welcome addition to the Purbeck list, and the only previous 

 record from the county is " Taken at Lulworth by J. C. Dale on 

 June 18th, 1840." Over its food-plant, Jasione montana, a nice little 

 set of EupoecUia palUdana was taken on the wing by waiting upon it 

 in the evenings. 



Among the more distinguished Tinece, one Diplodoma margine- 

 punctella, together with four (Ecopliora lamhdella, were the best results 

 of two visits to a hedge composed of living and dead wood and old 

 gorse bushes, and an outhouse yielded two Tinea niqripunctella. Cases 

 of Psyche villosella seemed scarcer than usual on the heath, as did 

 those of Fitmea rohoricolella in a saltmarsh where a colony exists, nor 

 did a diligent hunt in the head-quarters of Epichnopterijx jjulla reveal 

 even a single case. In April Micropteryx Kaltenbachii, to the tune of 

 some half dozen perfect moths and a few cripples, emerged, the larvae 

 having been found in hazel leaves in the previous spring, whilst in 

 early May larva? of Lampronia quadripunctella were rather common in 

 shoots of garden " York and Lancaster " roses : the moths emerge as 

 a rule before 9.30 a.m., and fly in the morning sunshine. In July 

 a few Depressaria nanatella, one D. pulcherrimella, and some Gelechia 

 lentiginosella appeared in the breeding jars, and spun shoots of Lotus 

 major, collected early in June, furnished me with a short set of 

 Anacampsis vorticella, to say nothing of a longer one of Tortrix 



* Siuoe the above was written I have found that Sorhagen in " Die Kleinschnietterlinge der 

 Mark Brandenburg" recurds U. seiieclana us taken in the evening amongst Uiuni/ at Hamburg ; it 

 is therefore probalilo that, like so many of its congeners, it is not confined to a Bingle food-plant, 

 but favour.-> diflerent closely-allied ones in ditfcreut localities. 



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