116 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



One of my larvae bored exceedingly neat holes through a chip 

 pill-box, and another I found had entered the stem oi Atriplex 

 portidacoides. The precise behaviour of millierella, which feeds 

 on the flowers of Statice virgata, is not ascertained. Whether 

 pupation takes place in the case or whether the insect be double- 

 brooded are points for future investigation. The larva of 

 auroguttella lives in an angular case formed of the seeds of 

 Atriplex' laciniata, A. patida, and A. latifolia, and it seems not 

 unlikely that a careful search on other species of Chenopodiacese, 

 Plnmbaginacese, and perhaps Plantaginacese and Polygonacese, 

 may reveal the existence of other species in this beautiful and 

 interesting genus. 



24, Fleming Road, Lorrimore Square, S.E., March 21, 1885. 



LEPIDOPTERA IN SOMERSETSHIRE. 



By Rev. J. Seymour St. John. 



I AM sorry to find that Dr. Livett has experienced such a bad 

 season in this part of the county last year. With me it was 

 different, and I was rejoicing over what I took to be signs 

 of better seasons in the future. It will be simpler and take up 

 less space if I shortly enumerate my captures, with the number 

 and variety of species I met with at Crowcombe, in the Minehead 

 Valley. I have before written in the ' Entomologist ' concerning 

 what I deem to be the excellency of that locality, speaking 

 entomologically. Perhaps my better success last year only proves 

 this, and not that it was really a better season. 



In March I took a very good specimen of Dasycampa ruhiginea at the 

 blossom of a rose tree ; also Xylocampa areola, Cerastis vaccinii, Scopelo- 

 soma satellitia, Selenia hilunaria [illunaria), Anisopteryx dsadaria, Anticlea 

 hadiata, several, Hyhernia marginaria (progeiiunaria), Cidaria siterata 

 (jjsittacata), Diurneafagella. 



In April, through the cold east winds, my only captures were : — Pieris 

 napi, Goiioptera libatrix, common here, Eucosmia certata, and Coremia 

 desiguata {propt(g)iata). 



May yielded a very good harvest, my note-book showing : — Pieris 

 brassiccB, P. napi, P. rapes, all equally common, pararge egeria, common, 

 P. megcBra, Vanessa cardui, Euchloe carda)i>ines, Argyiivis eup)hrosyne, 

 common, Coenonynipha 2}a)nphili(s, Spilosoma fuliginosa, Gonoptera libatrix, 

 Anarta iiiyrtilli, very common, Hadeiia coiitigua, Paiviia luteolata (cratwgata), 

 very common, Ematurga atomaria, abundant, Selenia hilunaria, Coremia 



