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hybernated P. hastiana in copula at Formby. This is mentioned 
because I believe the spring habits of this extremely abundant 
species are little understood. Personally I have never found it 
after hybernation except on this occasion. A nice series of 
Teras contaminana var. dimidiana was bred from larve found at 
Crosley when arranging for our summer field-meeting. Nearly 
all were extremely dark, though of this form. Dictyopteryx 
forskaleana has been found in some numbers at Wallasey by 
Mr. C. B. Williams among sycamore, and I took a specimen at 
Kirkby last August. When at Crosby last June, I found a 
number of larve on iris and ranunculus; these turned out to be 
Lortriz costana, a large and handsome species. Penthina varie- 
gana has shown up in odd specimens from various localities, and 
if worked for would be found commonly. P. dimidiana I have 
only found at Simonswood occasionally ; in 1907 I bred two or 
three from larve beaten from birch the previous autumn. Anti- 
thesia acerian4a, one specimen at Sefton Park in 1907. Sericoris 
bifasciana, also one specimen from Delamere, July, 1908. Cne- 
phasia musculana, one from Delamere, May, 1907. Sciaphila 
pascuana, although not noted previous to 1907, has since occurred 
at Delamere and Simonswood, not uncommonly. Clepsis rusti- 
cana was new to my collection when I captured a few specimens 
at Kirkby Moss in pine or among sweet gale. In a clump of 
rushes, only about a square yard altogether, on Kirkby Moss, 
Bactra lanceolana was quite common in August, 1908, and a few 
rather dark specimens were taken at Hatchmere last July, where 
it is no doubt common. A specimen of Phoxopteryx lundana 
came to light at Sefton Park in August 1907, and P. mitter- 
pacheriana occurred at Delamere, in May, 1907. The imago 
was found sitting on birch leaves. 
When looking for C. flavicornis at Simonswood in April, 
1907, and also at Delamere the same year, I gathered all the 
distorted catkins from the birches that I could find; later these 
produced a fine series of Graphiolitha ramella type and var. 
costana in about equal proportions, though perhaps in the Dela- 
mere series the type slightly outnumbered the variety. A nice 
series of G. nevana was bred from holly tips collected uear 
Liverpool in 1908, and a few G. geminana from Vaccinium found 
at Delamere; on the same ground in July this species was 
abundant, flying freely when disturbed in the daytime. 
Among the pines at Simonswood in 1907 I found a moth 
that at first seemed familiar, but at the time I could not recog- 
nize it; on comparison at home, however, it turned out to be a 
very dusky form of the male of Batodes angustiorana; it was so 
dark as to suggest the possibility of a black form parallel to the 
var. fuscana of T’. podana. The locality is likely, and a black form 
is one that might reasonably be expected to occur, hence I shall 
look out for it every season if I can get there at the proper 
