186 [January, 



Tarrington, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, July. 



It is slightly smaller and less robust in body than Hartmanniana, 

 and the costa of the fore-wings is not so much arched. It also differs 

 from that species in its white ground colour, blackish head and collar, 

 the form of the large costal blotch, and the arrangement and number 

 of its delicate cloudy markings. 



It is found exclusively about apple trees, upon which its larva 

 doubtless feeds, although it has not yet been discovered, and one of 

 the moths taken this year was actually running up the trunk of an 

 apple-tree with unexpanded wings just out of pupa. Hartmannianm 

 which occurs on willow trunks in the neighbourhood, has not been 

 found in the orchards at all, nor have the two species been found any- 

 where mixed together. 



It is probable that the species is widely distributed in Hereford- 

 shire, as a specimen has been taken near Leominster. 



Pembroke : 9th December, 1881. 



Notes on the past season, and on the occurrence of certain Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera in the Forest of Dean. — In this part of Gloucestershire the present year 

 was from a naturalist's, standpoint, notable for the abundance of insect life that 

 prevailed throughout April, May, June, and the opening days of July. Some of the 

 commoner kinds of moths, such as P. pilosaria, H. progemmaria, H. leucophcearia, 

 T. stabilis, and T. viridana were observed to be especially numerous, and two 

 Depidoptera, which are not apt to remain in the duplicate drawer so long as the 

 before mentioned, viz. : A. prodromaria and C. ridens (some nice varieties) were 

 nearly as common, being taken by the score, the majority of them as soon after 

 emergence from the pupa as their full developement would permit. When these 

 two species had lost their bloom, and while they were becoming tattered and torn, 

 and assuming the bleached appearance indicative of Lepidopteral decrepitude, 

 zest was given to a walk in the Forest by a good chance of taking a series of N. 

 cristulalis and T. extersaria, varied now and then with fine examples of N. trepida, 

 N. chaonia, E. dolobraria, while later on H. velleda (var. carnus), S. fagi, and A. 

 herbida were to be found by trunk hunting. When in the month of June the i 

 beating stick and net were employed, E. advenaria, A. prunaria, A. sylvata, A. 

 Blomeraria, N. pulveraria, and B. lancealis fell victims to this method of collecting. 

 Owing, however, to a run of rainy or windy weather setting in just when the two 

 " waves " were at their best, only a few specimens were obtained worthy of a place on 

 the setting board. Last year they were by no means difficult to secure in good 

 condition. In the wood, which is the head quarters hereabouts of "Blomer's wave," 

 L. nilricollis turned up at rest on grass stems, and C. propugnata on trunks, and the 

 larva of P. galactodactylns mustered in force on the underside of burdock leaves. 

 Towards the middle of April a few N. hispidaria were secured, and have proved a I 

 desirable supplement to the representatives of the species already in the collection. 



