•296 THE KNTOMOLOGIST. 



with reeds, and having on the former island a scrub of" sallow 

 and heather growing close up to the water; but though I 

 sugared the large masses of ragwort flowers carefully, 1 took 

 absolutely nothing, except Leucania impura and L. pallens. 



During the last fortnight of my visit I sugared the flowers 

 of the numerous shrubby New Zealand Veronicas in the 

 Abbey gardens almost every night. I look Agrotis lunigera 

 (a single specimen), A. tritici, A. puta, A. saucia, A. sujfusa, 

 A.segetiDH, Nocluaplecia, N. C-vigrum, N. rubi, N. xantho- 

 grupha, Cerigo Cylliereu, Tripliceiia orbona, Apaniea oculea, 

 PhlogopJiora meticulosa, Melanthia ruhiginata, Campto- 

 gramma hilineaia, Eupilhecia pumilata, and a single 

 specimen of the rare pearl, Margarodes unionalis. SpJtinx 

 convolvuli was common hovering over various flowers at 

 dusk, but the specimens were all more or less battered. A 

 single specimen of Acherontia Atropos, apparently fresh from 

 the pupa, was brought to me by the gamekeeper, who 

 caught it in his collage. The gardener told me that the 

 tomato plants had been much eaten by some large larva; I 

 suspect A. Atropos. There is a good deal of Euphorbia 

 paralias on the islands, and I searched it carefully lor the 

 larva of Deilephila euphorbia}, but in vain. 1 described, it to 

 the gamekeeper, who is a very observant man, and he said 

 he was almost sure he had seen it. The larvae of Eupithecia 

 centaureata and E. absynlhiata were abundant on ragwort 

 flowers, and I swept a few of E. nanala IVou) those of 

 Ciilluna vulgaris; but I saw no trace of any other 

 Eupitheci<B. The only other larvae I saw were Hadena 

 oleracea, H. chenopodii, Mamesira brassicce, Diaii/hcecia 

 capsincola, Chelonia caja, Acrongc/a run/ ids, Arclia lubri- 

 cipeda, A. mexlJiasiri, and Euchelia Jacoheoi. Acidalia 

 proniutata occurred on banks near the sea, at St. Mary's. 



1 omitted to say that Colias edusa was not nearly so 

 common as in Buckinghamshire, where it has been more or 

 less abundant since May. I did not see a single C. hyale or 

 Helive. 



An entomological friend, who had been a guest at the 

 Abbey for some weeks before my visit, took, in addition to 

 the insects already named, Agrotis obelisca, Triphceiia inter- 

 'iecta, Hadena pisi, Dianlhoecia conspersa, Leucania litt oralis, 

 Lithosia quadra, Eupithecia subnotata, Cleora lichenaria. 



