24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



weather. On July 11th the butterfly was not so numerous, but it was 

 in good condition. Lycana cefjon and Epinephele ianira were numerous 

 and fresh on that date in the Forest district ; and I should not forget 

 to say I had glimpses of E. tithonus in the Shotwick neighbourhood on 

 July 31st. On the Crosby sandhills, near Liverpool, August 4th, 

 Satyrtiti setnele was common. The coloration of the specimens struck 

 me as being unusually rich, but perhaps this was owing to their un- 

 doubted freshness. Another thing I could not help noticing about 

 these Crosby S. seinele was the fact that they were not nearly so 

 skittish and difficult to capture as are specimens of the same species 

 on the rock- faces of North Wales and North Lancashire. I found 

 Leucoma salicis on these sandhills as well, on the same date. 



Among moths I saw Loboplwra carpinata (Jobnlata) in Delamere 

 Forest from April 15th to April 25th, at rest on palings and tree- 

 trunks, where it posed in flat contradiction to the doctrine of protective 

 resemblance. Tephmsia hiundularia I first saw on April 25th, and the 

 species continued out until June 6th, when the specimens were getting 

 decidedly shabby ; I got a fine ashy-grey female with blackish wing- 

 suffusions and bands on May 16th. From this interesting female I 

 have now a large progeny lying over the winter in the pupal state. 

 Panagra petraria seems to be a local moth in Delamere Forest ; it 

 was plentiful, though worn, on one particular bracken-covered spot, 

 June 6th. Euholia plumharia [paliinibaria) was fresh and abundant on 

 Hatchmere Heath on the same day, and I took a fine series of both 

 sexes to renew. Among the birches in the Forest Acidalia remutaria 

 and Cidaria corylata were also fresh, and plentiful enough. A nice 

 A. straminata var. circellata has already been recorded for July 11th 

 (Entora. xxxvi. 317). and, all being well, I mean to look out for this 

 little prize next season, Aspilates striyillaria was just appearing on 

 June 27th, but was represented throughout by smaller numbers than 

 I have observed in former years. I met with Anaita 7»i/rtilli on 

 July 4th to July 11th ; on the latter date both males and females, in 

 fine condition, were swept oft" the tops of the heather. I recommended 

 the spot to my friend Mr. J. Thompson in September, and he went 

 there and obtamed a considerable number of larvae off the heather ;' 

 these larvae a few days afterwards pupated. All the above are Dela- 

 mere Forest Lepidoptera, and the list was extended from October 3rd 

 to October 10th by Peronea ferrugana (beaten from birches), Ephippi' 

 phora similana = bhnacuJana, P. caledoviana (dark forms), Dictyopteryx 

 contaminayia, and Plntella cruciferarum. 



I tried "assembling" with a fresh female Bombyx quercus on the 

 Delamere heaths, July 11th, but the experiment was a total failure:^ 

 a few males were seen on the wing. 



Electric lamps were almost useless for attracting insects ; this is 

 not to be wondered at, for the latter are always most active in high 

 temperatures. A male Cossns Hyniperda was taken, June 23rd. I had 

 only two favourable nights — June 29th and July 10th. On the first dat«i 

 Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayaria, Dicranura vinnla, Phisia pul 

 chrina, and Habrostola triplasia were my best captures ; and on July lOth^ 

 the heat being almost tropical, Uropteryx sambucaria, Pyralis ylanchialit'' 

 A. betxdarid var. doubledayaria, Nola cucullatella, Caradrina alsines, Ma- 

 viestia sordida [anceps), Miana arcuosa, Acronycta rumicis, Bryophilo 



