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obstipata, Fh. {= fiKviata, Hh.) ; Ptychopoda fractiUncata, Zell., 

 and AcidaUa ochroleucata, H.-S. 



On November 2nd at Ludd I found Rhodometra sacraria, 

 Linn., and Eujnthccia ccntaureata, Schiff. 



Of the Noctuidffi only a few have yet been identified, and I 

 am obliged to Mr. George Talbot for notes upon them. 



Cucidlia chamomdlcB, Schiff. One specimen hovering round 

 flowers in a tent at 6 p.m., .January 2nd, and one at light the 

 same evening. *' This is probably a form of ab. calenduke, Tr., 

 which may prove to be a local race." 



The following were taken at light in January at Haifa : 



Plusia gamma, L. " An unusually grey form, nearer in tone 

 to the American P. californica than to typical gamma. This may 

 be a race." 



Amathes { = Orthosia, 0. of Stgr.'s Catalogue) kindermanni, F. 

 var. paidi, Stgr. 



Eumichtis (= Hadena, Schrk. of Stgr.'s Catalogue) solieri, 

 Boisd. "An extra rich dark form; have only seen the white 

 stigma in this and another Syrian specimen — ? racial." 



Of the smaller moths I have been fortunate in finding two 

 new species — Alncita parca, Meyr., sp. nov., one at Haifa, 29 : vi : 

 '19, at rest on a tent roof ; and Platyedra cruenta, Meyr., sp. nov., 

 Haifa, 6 : xii : '19, at light. 



(To be continued.) 



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By G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 



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Microdus nifipes, Nees.* 



Easily recognised by the extensive sculpture on the abdomen, 

 segments 1, 2, and part of 3 being distinctly striolated ; 

 legs, including the coxas, testaceous, only the hind and middle 

 tarsi and tips of hind tibife being dark ; terebra as long as the 

 body without the head. 



Harwood has a male taken in a Colchester garden July 24tli, 

 1914, and in the Dale Collection is a pair from Devon. In June, 

 1916, I reared a pair from New Fovest\a.Y\?eoi Torti'ix variegana. 

 Two males and two females from Darenth Wood are in Fitch's 

 Collection, and also the male bred by Elisha from Coleophora 

 gryphipennella, July 31st, 1882. f 



* 'Men.,' vol. i, p. 146. 



t ' Trans. Entom. Soc.,' 1885, p. 275. 



