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that the insect can only occur in very small numbers in this 

 restricted locality, its two supposed food-plants, though present, 

 being by no means common. As, however, the larvte probably 

 feed up in the early spring it may have suffered from the 

 prolonged cold. 



My particular thanks are due to Mr. Davis for his able 

 guidance to many choice spots, and I was only too pleased to 

 help him turn up several species new to the district. 



On August 1st I returned home to Devonshire, and the 

 weather almost immediately broke up. Not much has been 

 done since then save the capture of a few C. splendana, and 

 P. prqfundana, together with a goodly number of larvse of 

 A. cosmodactyla, and A. punctidactyla. 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH 

 LINE IN FRANCE. 



By Capt. H. D. Smart, M.C, R.A.M.C, F.E.S. 

 (Concluded from p, 253.) 



I DID not spend many weeks of the season of the Pyralidse 

 in France, and consequently added only a few species to last 

 year's list. 



Aphomia sociella was taken at Heuchin and more commonl}^ 

 at Fruges. 



Crambus falsellus I caught at Caestre. 



In one camp near Locre Ephesda elutella was abundant. 



My short visit to Nieppe Forest produced Scoparia basistrigalis 

 and S. amhigualis var. atomalis. 



Pionea prunalis was plentiful at Caestre and in the a^djacent 

 part of Belgium. P. stachydalis was quite common in one of the 

 marshes near Kemmel. 



In the early part of the year I found hibernated examples of 

 Acalla literana in several of the woods between St. Pol and 

 Arras. 



Several forms of A. schalleriana, including ab. latifasciana , 

 were common in the Kemmel area. 



Capua favillaceana was common near Avesnes. 



Caccecia podana and C. rosana were abundant at Fruges, 

 especially the latter. I found C. xylosteana in the Foret de 

 Nieppe. 



Pandemis heparana was common on Mont Kemmel. 



Ealia ministrana was very common at Avesnes. 



I found Tortrix loefiingiana on the Scherpenberg, in Belgium. 



The comparative scarcity of T. viridana on the Somme in 

 1916 was by no means repeated further north in 1917. The 



