NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA IN DORSETSHIRE. 119 
Parietaria officinalis (Has it ever been known to feed on this plant ?), 
A. straminata, A. emutaria, A. degeneraria, Macaria alternata, at light; 
M. notata, Selidosema ericetaria ( plumaria), Larentia olivata, Eupithecia 
constrictata, beaten from thorn and bramble brakes, growing where wild 
thyme is plentiful; 2. coronata, Lobophora  sexalisata (sewalata), 
L. viretata, L. carpinata (lobulata), Camptogramma fluviata (one specimen 
at light), and Phibalapterya vittata (lignata). 
The Pyralides have turned up in good force, and are well represented 
by such local things as—Scoparia lineolea, on ash trunks and lichen- 
covered stone walls; S. mercurella var. portlandica (wrongly called 
pheoleuca in our lists), S. resinea, on lichen, on ash, and apple trees ; 
S. pallida, Odontia dentalis, Endotricha flammealis, abundant, but very 
local; Botys flavalis, B. asinalis, amongst madder; Hbulea verbascalis, 
E. stachydalis, amongst Stachys sylvatica, on which the larva is common, 
though decidedly local; Diasemia literata (literalis), and Stenia punctalis 
(the larvee live under stones in spring, and feed on grass-stems, dead 
leaves, &e.). 
The Pterophori met with in the district show a good proportion of the 
British species, and include—Amblyptilia cosmodactyla ( punctidactylus), 
reared from larvee feeding on flowers and unripe seeds of Stachys sylvatica ; 
Oxyptilus teucrti, amongst Teucrium scorodonia; O. parvidactylus, 
Mimeseoptilus pheodactylus, M. zophodactylus (larve in seed-heads of 
Erythrea centaurium), Leioptilus microdactylus, Aciptilia baliodactyla, 
and A. tetradactyla. It is perhaps worth mentioning that in the end of 
June, 1884, I bred an imago of this last species from a larva found shortly 
before on wild thyme. 
Among the Crambi we have been favoured with a fair share of “ good 
things,” our chief captures being—Crambus sylvellus (adipellus), C. uligino- 
sellus, C. latistrius, C. warringtonellus (very local), C. selasellus, Anerastia 
lotella, [lithyia semirubella (carnella), Homaosoma sinuella (larvee iu root- 
stocks of Plantago lanceolata), H. binevella, Huzophera cinerosella (larvee 
in stems of Artemisia absynthium), Cryptoblabes bistrigella, Phycis fusca 
(carbonariella), flying in the evening amongst burnt furze; Dioryctria 
abietella, taken far away from any fir trees; Nephopteryx genistella, bred 
from larvee and pupe in thick webs in gorse bushes, but its range is unfor- 
tunately very restricted, owing to the constant cutting and burning of the 
gorse ; Lihodophea marmorea, among sloe bushes ; Rf. suavella, together with 
Oncocera ahenella. 
Of the Tortrices the most aristocratic species which have fallen victims 
to our efforts are—(nectra pilleriana (the ordinary brown form); we have 
met with a very handsome local variety outside the county, of which the 
fore wings of the male are glossy reddish ochreous, with ferruginous 
markings, while those of the female are unicolorous glossy dark ferruginous ; 
