THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XII.) MARCH, 1879. _ [No. 190. 
NOTES ON ACIDALIA CONTIGUARIA. 
By Herpert Forrescut FRyYeEr. 
Actpanta contTicuarta (dark and pale varieties). 
In July, 1876, through the kindness of Mr. Capper, who 
showed me the locality in North Wales, I was enabled to take 
a few specimens of Acidalia contiguaria. I found it by no 
means common, even in its own peculiar and apparently some- 
what restricted locality, though I searched assiduously and 
was assisted by Mr. Capper’s sons, most indefatigable workers. 
From the imagines I took I obtained a few eggs, but as it was 
somewhat late in the season the larve hybernated, and though 
they all went into pupa in the spring I was not successful in 
breeding them. 
The following year I obtained eggs from the same place, 
where I again had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Capper, who was 
collecting in the old spot. We both agreed that A. contiguaria 
ought to occur in other parts of North Wales—in fact, wherever 
the necesssary conditions of food-plant, shelter, &c., were to be 
found. 
Shortly afterwards, when staying a few days at Bettws-y-coed, 
I went out to look for Contiguaria, and at some considerable 
elevation I took what I afterwards found to be the dark variety, 
though so different was it from the light bone-coloured form, 
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