NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA IN DORSETSHIRE. 121 
larva in the spring; two broods have been observed, in May and in July, 
and I expect there is probably a third in September; but, as far as my own 
experience goes, the species is terribly subject to the attacks of ichneumon), 
C. daucellus, of which there are three broods, as, from larve found at large 
on Daucus carota, I have bred imagines in May, July, and September; 
Klachista perplexella, bred from Aira ce@spitosa; E. subalbidella (sub- 
ochreella), Cemiostoma lotella, bred plentifully from Lotus major, growing 
in bogs: Opostega salaciella, and—last as well as least—Nepticula 
cryptella, amongst Lotus corniculatus. 
Of the above-mentioned species a certain number are new to 
the Dorset list; while Coleophora flavaginella, Lienig, of which 
the larvee were found on Sueda maritima in October, 1884, by the 
Rev. C. R. Digby, with whom I was collecting at the time, had 
not previously been met with in Britain. He informs me that 
Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher found larvee of this species on the south 
coast in the same year, but failed to rear them; though last year 
he took both larvee and imagines. 
The larve which I procured on that occasion hybernated 
when full-fed, and I succeeded in breeding the imago for the first 
time in June and July, 1885. It is necessary to add that there 
has been considerable difficulty in identifying this insect. It is 
certainly not C. flavaginella, Muhlig (vide E. M. M., xxii, 
pp. 135-187); and though it must stand for the present as 
C. flavaginella, Lienig, it seems not improbable that it is really 
distinct from Madame Lienig’s species, and may prove new to 
science. 
It may be of interest to mention, by the way, that in the 
spring of last year I was fortunate in taking a few Hupithecia 
irriguata in the northern part of the county, and have now pupz 
resulting from a batch of ova laid by a female. 
The above random notes on some of the most interesting 
species met with by two entomologists within the limits of this 
county alone, during the bad seasons lately experienced, will 
show that, in spite of its small size, Dorsetshire can boast of a 
lepidopterous fauna which would do credit to many a county of 
larger area. 
The Rectory, Corfe Castle, March 31, 1886. 
ENTOM.—MaAy, 1885. R 
