ON THE MACRO -LEPIDOPTERA OF SOUTH DEVON. 35 



On the Warren, which I regretted to find so greatly curtailed 

 in size by the encroachments of the sea daring the last twenty 

 years, Mesotype virgata is to be found. 



At Chagford, on the elevated table-land of Dartmoor, I found 

 a very promising country, but was i)revented by unsuitable 

 weather during the few days of my stay from doing mucli work. 

 I took, however, Neiiria reticulata and Acidalia mar ghie punctata, 

 the occurrence of the latter somewhat surprising me both as 

 to time and place. The appearance of a second brood this 

 year has also already been recorded (E. M. M.) in Norfolk. 

 I had considered this moth as a sea-coast insect, but, doubt- 

 less, in this as in other instances in zoology as well as botany, 

 elevation corresponds to a large extent as to climatic conditions 

 and general environment with the sea-shore. 



A pleasant day or two at Ivybridge gave me the opportunity 

 of making the personal acquaintance of several entomological 

 correspondents in and about Plymouth, whose fauna is being 

 elucidated by them, as to Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepi- 

 doptera. I shall therefore only record the occurrence of Stauropus 

 fagi, a larva of which was swept into the net of one of our party, 

 in the course of a pleasant ramble in Erme Wood, and most 

 generously presented to me by the captor. In referring to the 

 pleasant acquaintances made in South Devon, I cannot help 

 expressing my hope that such of them as have opportunity, 

 esj)ecially about Topsham and Exmouth, will do their duty 

 toward the locality, and diligently explore the repertory of iv}' 

 and sallow thereabouts, as neither autumn nor spring sj^ecies are 

 represented in the following list. 



W. stands for Woodbury; C. for Chagford, Dartmoor; those 

 unmarked are from the vicinity of Topsham ; abt. abundant. 



PiHorAi.ocKRA. — Leiicoj)]iasi(i siintjjis, W., abt. Aii/yiniis cuphrusyne 

 and seh'iie, W., abt. Avf/yintis adippe, one spt^cinien, Dartmoor. Vanessa 

 puhjcldoros, scarce. Epinephcle hyperanthus, ab. arete. Lycana argiolus, 

 W., iibt. Syrichthus malva;, ab. taras, W., not rare. 



Hkterockra. — Acherontia atropos, not rare. Sjihinx convolvuli, very 

 abundant last autumn. S7nerbithus ocellatus, occ&sioual specimens. Macro- 

 (jlossa hoinbyliformis, W., not very rare. Sisia cynipiforiiiis, Xola stri- 

 (jula, Lithosia mesomella, one specimen each. Calliinorpha liera, one 

 specimen, W. Arctia villica and Spilosonia inoidica, not common. Cossus 

 I'Kjniperda, abt. Plerosto)ii« palpina and Xotodunta cJiaonia, occasioiiiil 



