38 
[July, 
Captures at Witherslaclt, includAng the new British Tortrix and a new Plvme. — 
On the 19th May I paid my first visit this season to this locality. The day was 
everything one could desire — calm, hot, and close until after sunset ; just one of 
those days that the entomologist should stick at it and persevere, however hard 
and oppressive the labour. The following day was cold and stormy, and was almost 
a blank. My captures may be enumerated as follows : — 
Ewpithecia ihdigata, 2; Thera variata, 3; Cabera exanthemata, 1; Cidaria 
corylata, 1 ; Psychoides verhuellella, a score or more of pupse ; Lithosia convplanula, 
3 larvae ; Penthina ochromelana, 2 ; P. carhonana, 1 ; Eriopsela quadrana, 3 ; 
Cnephasia musculana, 1 ; Clepsis rusticana, 12 ; Phoxopteryx siculana, 2 ; P. uncana, 
6 ; P. myrtillana, 2 ; Coccyx vacciniana, 6 ; Catoptria aspidiscana, 1, this is a new 
species to our lists [see ante, p. 16] ; Ev/pmciUa ruficiliana, 12 ; Psyche roloricolella, 
6 cases ; Tinea histrigella, 2 ; Micropteryx Allionella, 12 ; Swammerdam.ia comptella, 
2 ; Gelechia junctella, 1 hybemated ; G. longicornis, 2 ; Pancalia Lewenhoekella, 
Perittia ohscurepunctella, 4 ; Oracila/ria auroguttella, 2 ; O. stramineella, 1 ; Ornix 
scoticella, 2 ; 0. torquillella, 4 ; 0. letulce, 1 ; Coleophora virgaurew, 6 ; C. alcyoni- 
pennella, 12 cases on knapweed ; C. pyrrhulipennella, cases on heath ; 0. murini- 
pennella, cases on grass [? Luzula, H. T. S.] ; Elachista Kilmunella, 4 ; Ghjphipteryx 
Haworthana, 6 ; Lithocolletis coryli, 2 ; L. ulmifoliella, 8 ; L. emherizmpennella, 1 ; 
L. FroUchiella, 2 ; Nepticula aucuparioe, 6 ; and Pterophorus Hodghinsoni, Gregson 
(a new species) 8 specimens. 
I may as well observe that Catoptria aspidiscana has only been quite recently 
determined, although I have taken specimens for the last five years. Of the plume, 
I took three specimens in 1863 ; it appears to be a very early species, and this may 
perhaps account for my not meeting with it since 1863, as I seldom go there so 
early in the season. Any one who has been in the habit of looking at plumes may 
readily see the diflference when the insect is at rest. Four of the specimens are 
very fine ; I have obtained a few eggs. The species is closely allied to P. Lowei. — 
J. B. HoDGKiNSON, 31, Christchurch Street, Preston, May 22nd, 1867. 
Note on Pterophorus isodactykis. — Twenty years ago, P. isodactylus was common 
in a small alder swamp near Teignmouth : this was fed by a little stream running 
from Haldon, a heathy moor about a mile distant from it. It was about an acre 
in extent, and underneath the alder-trees grew sorrel and the golden saxifrage, 
whilst near them were what might be almost called small thickets, formed by tall 
plants of Eupatorium cannahinum, Epilobium hirsutum, and Equisetmn telmateia, 
with the marsh-thistle towering up amongst them. It was in these fastnesses that 
the plumes took shelter. There were also Senecio aquaticus, Caltha palust/ris, 
Carda/mine pratense, Lychnis flos-cucubaU, and Spa/rganium ramosum, scattered 
through the bog, besides rushes and sedges, and a few occasional stragglers from 
the heath above, such as Anagallis tenella, Wahlenhergia, and Pedicularis, amongst 
the grass and Sphagnwn, which formed rather a treacherous footing. The other 
marsh insects of the locality besides the plume were Nudaria senex, Leucania 
impurra and conigera, Eudorea pallida, and OrthotcBlia venosa. 
The swamp is now entirely drained, ploughed, and the land planted with 
cabbages, nor is there any spot resembling it in the whole course of the stream. 
