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checked the pest, and a good cro[) of fruit resulted. The flies 

 were subsequently exhibited at a meeting of the Cotteswold 

 Field Club. 



A visit to a local oak wood on the •24th produced Lohophora 

 halterata {hexapterata) at rest on a tree trunk, Giinmoscelis 

 abhreviata, Ancylis lundnna, Nemophora schwarzidla, Lithocolletis 

 qitercifoliella, and L. cramn-eUa. A rising temperature on the 

 25th and 26th brought out (Ecophora sulphiirella and Lampronia 

 rubiella in my garden. Gracilaria syringella was first noticed 

 amongst the lilac bushes on the 27th, a very wet day. The next 

 day (Whit-Monday) being a holiday, advantage was taken of a 

 fine afternoon following a dry morning to visit the hills. The 

 males of Eriocjaster ruhi were dashing about on a dry bank and 

 amongst the beech l)ushes at the bottom. I made several 

 ineffectual attempts to net them, both at the top and at the 

 bottom of the bank, but towards 8 o'clock (summer time) I noticed 

 that they flew lower, just above the tops of the grass, and I then 

 managed to catch three in very fair order. Brenthis euphrosijne, 

 Ppli/ommatus icarvs, Opisthograptix dathrata, Oxyptilns parvi- 

 dacti/lus, Adela nifimitrella, and Eriocephala calthella were also 

 on the wing. On the 29th I visited the woodlands in the Severn 

 Valley, and by beating the small oaks, birch, and nut trees along 

 the wood rides I secured a lovely fresh H alias prasinana, a perfect 

 pair oiPlemyria hastata, L. halterata, Hydriomcna coiylala, Ancylis 

 lactana, Nepticula argentipedella, and Lithocolletis pomifoliella, 

 whilst the males of Eupcedlia maculosana were flying over the 

 bluebells in the sunshine. My long projected visit to the famous 

 Leigh Woods materialised on May 31st, when, thanks to the 

 kindness of Mr. G..C. Griffiths and Mr. A. E. Hudd, joint authors 

 of ' Fifty Years Entomology in Bristol,' I spent a pleasant after- 

 noon in their company. The afternoon was cloudy and rain 

 threatened, but, although we did not secure the great prize 

 Drepana harpagula {sicida). I was pleased to take for the first 

 time Roeslerstammia erxlehdla, at rest on a leaf of the small- 

 leaved lime {Tilia parvi flora). Other species noted were H. 

 prttsinana, Dusydiira pudihunda, Gonodontis bidentata, Psevdo- 

 panthera macularia. Cepphis advenaria, Toririx viinixtrana, 

 Lipoptycha plumbana, Nemopiiora sivaiimierdamella, Adda croesella 

 {sulzella), Chrysodistaaurifrontella, and N. argentipedella. 



By beating the lime trees outside a wood near the Forest of 

 Dean, besides R. erxlebella, I was fortunate in securing a nice 

 pair of Buccidatrix thoracella, a species not mentioned in 

 Mr. V. K.Perkins' manuscript Gloucestershire list, but which I see 

 is recorded from Gloucester in Mr. Meyrick's handbook. In the 

 wood Falcaria falcataria, P. hastata, Abraxas sylvata (idmata), 

 Euchoeca luteata, Eladiista atricomdla, Lithocolletis sjyinolella, and 

 N. argentipedella were obtained. That serious pest of our apple 

 trees Carpocapaa poinonella first appeared on the 4th. 



