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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cheimatobia hrumata was very common in Flandei > , but I did 

 not see C. horeata. 



Larentia didymata is abundant in the Pas de Calais. 



L. viridariu is common near Corbie. 



Emmelesia alchemillata was common in one wood near St. Pol. 



Eupithecia oblongata was a very common grass insect at 

 Corbie, where E. vulga'a was also common. 



E. rectangidata, in the same district, was the only other 

 " pug " noticed. 



Hypnpetes rid)erata was common in the Vaux wood, and 

 H. sordidata in most places, 



Melanthia bicolorata was common near St. Pol and Souchez ; 

 M. albicillata, near St. Pol. 



Melanippe rivata occurred in the Somme district ; M. sociata 

 was common here and in Artois. 



M. montanata abounded in the Ancre marshes. 



M. flactuata, though widely distributed from Amitns to 

 Armeutieres, was not very often seen. 



Coremia femigata and C. unideiitaria were very common in 

 the trenches on Vimy Piidge. 



Camptogramma bilineata was abundant. 



Cidaria cori/lata was seen near Amiens. 



C. truncata occurs along the whole line, but I saw C. iv.imanata 

 near Bruay only. 



Anaitis plagiata was common near Corbie, and very common 

 near Bruay. 



To the above should be added E. abbreviata, of which 1 took a 

 specimen near Amiens. 



Lyccena astrarche was subsequently found in numbers, but 

 very worn, in September, near Bruay. 



I have inadvertently left out Ematurga atomaria, which is 

 everywhere common. In the Ancre marshes it produces huge 

 yellow males with very regular bands, one of which 1 sent home 

 as a non-British species. This form is an exaggeration of the 

 large, yellow-banded males which occur in \\icken Feu on very 

 similar ground. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Cryptoblabes bisteigella and local Torteices at Hindhead, 

 SuEEEY. — I spent two short holidays at Hindhead, April 20th to 

 28th, and June 3rd to 17th. On the occasion of my earlier visit I 

 was pleased to obtain a series of Steganoptycha pygmceana, which 

 species I had never seen alive before ; it was not uncommon flying in 

 the afternoon sunshine amongst spruce. The chief event of my 

 June visit was the comparative abundance of Cryptoblabes bistrigella, 

 which was beaten out almost every day. The most prolific spot was 

 ^ ride in an oak-wood on the southern side of the Punch Bowl ; 



