16 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



been published, so that perhaps the following list of rare or local 

 insects, taken by mj'self (without any attempt at sj'steniatic col- 

 lecting) at different times in the island, may interest some of your 

 readers : — Litliosia quadra, Acidalia contiguaria, Macaria alter- 

 nata, Camptogramnia fluviata, Stauropus fagi, Triphcena suhsequa, 

 and Dasycampa ruhiglnea, single specimens. Lohophora sexalata, 

 Xylina semihrunnea, X. petrificata, and Lyccena Adonis, several 

 specimens. LWiosia stramineola, Emmelesia albulata, Anticlea 

 ruhidata, Agrotis saucia, and Xylina rhizolitha, commonly. 

 Argynnis Aglaia, Arge Galathea, and Scodiona helgiaria, are 

 abundant on the range of chalk downs for, I believe, their whole 

 length from Lulworth to Studland. Chaneas graminis and the 

 larvae of CuculUa verhasci are also sometimes abundant. Lyccena 

 Corydon is also abundant in the corn-fields to the north of that 

 range, though I have never met wnth it on the south side. 

 Phibalapteryx tersata, P. vitalbata, Melanippe procellata, Euholia 

 hipunctaria, and Ilithyia carnella, are common in many places ; 

 whilst Lyccena jEgon, Fidonia atomaria, Selidosema plumaria, and 

 some species of Psyche are very common on the heaths lying 

 between East Lulworth and Wareham. I feel sure that were a 

 good entomologist to devote some time to collecting in the Isle of 

 Purbeck he would be rewarded with many other local species 

 than those mentioned, and very possibly something new, especially 

 in the genus Acidalia, as I once had two or three examples of a 

 species that appeared to belong to that genus that I could not 

 refer satisfactorily to any in our list. They were taken on the 

 open downs towards the south of the island, and appeared allied 

 to A. contiguaria; but circumstances obliging me to give up 

 collecting for several years they were destroyed without being 

 shown to anyone competent to decide on their identity. — Thos. 

 Parmiter; Halstock, Yeovil, November, 1881. 



Hesperia Action. — I have for several years been expecting 

 to see some such note respecting Hesperia Actceon as that from 

 the pen of Mr. M'Ptae (Entom. xiv. 252). From what I know of 

 the habits of that species, I have long felt certain that if it were 

 not entirely exterminated at Lulworth it would be so reduced in 

 numbers as to become a great rarity there ; though were such to 

 be the case I have every reason to believe that it would still be 

 found in some other part of the Isle of Purbeck, as I know it to 

 have been taken abundantly in another locality near Swanage. I 



