LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED IN 1917. 275 



much wanted ? , had a distinct bkiish tint, such as one sees in 

 some forms of S. conspersana. 



Arriving at Lewes on June 4tb, to be joined by Mr. Tarbat 

 on the following day, a start was at once made on the eearch for 

 /. glohularue. Having not much by way of guidance except the 

 name Cliff Hill, and a rather indistinct remembrance of an article 

 on the Lewes Foresters, it was a piece of luck to strike /. globu- 

 laricB in plenty and line order after barely an hour's walk. 

 I. geryon llew in equal plenty higher up the hills. On the Downs 

 A. hellargus, 0. ahenella (some fine forms), and C. chri/sotieucelhts 

 were the predominating insects. The small fry were rather 

 <lisap23ointing ; P. dilutella, P. sellana, C. straminea, and one ? 

 E.fractifasciana were the best things taken. Mr. W. E. Nicholson 

 spotted two fine ? A. cinerea crawling up from the turf, fresh 

 from their chrysalids. 



Two journeys to Abbot's Wood produced M. hastata, E. dolo- 

 braria, and P. barhalis in some numbers, whilst C. bistriga, 

 P. lactana, P. upiqjana, R. arcuana, A. degeerella, T . fiilvimittrella , 

 ]J. olivierella were also netted. One fine C.fluctuom was a fore- 

 runner of what was after to be met with at Tilgate Forest. At 

 the last-named favoured spot C. fluctuosa was really plentiful 

 amongst the birch trees in company with M. notata. The same 

 trees also harboured maoy A. corticana, P. biluiiana, E. nana, 

 .and T. ■proximella. A few E. venustula, kicked up in the early 

 afternoon, led to much heavy work, which might have been 

 avoided, as it flew in great numbers at dusk, but wanted picking 

 over. The special object of our visit to Tilgate, viz. S. sphegi- 

 formis, was rather poorly satisfied by one specimen. 



Returning to Gloucestershire on June 18th, the splendid 

 character of the season at last became fully apparent. My 

 collecting was now done in co-operation with Mr. W. B. Davis, 

 of Stroud, who has a unique knowledge of the district. 



The first brood of P. c- album var. hntcliinsoni, seldom seen in 

 this district, was quite plentiful from now onwards, and before 

 the end of July early specimens of the second brood were out, so 

 that the two broods overlapped and flew together. On one 

 occasion, after a storm, scores of T. iv-album were seen resting 

 upon a row of thistles, a truly beautiful sight. A. corydon was 

 observed very early, and was well on the wing before the end of 

 July. Two very interesting and scarce Eupoecilias were found 

 in a field that had gone out of cultivation for some years. 

 E. manniana, of which I took a single specimen last year, was 

 there in great numbers, and flew at dusk. In smaller numbers 

 E. flaviciliana was to be had, and these two are, I think, new 

 records for the county, and certainly amongst the j^rizes of my 

 holiday. In the same field C.falvana was very common, whilst 

 S. verticalis was not rare, and N. scabiosellus waved its long 

 antennse from the flower heads of Scabiosiis arvensis. 



