COLLECTING IN 1918 anp 1919 IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ETC. 117 
COLLECTING IN 1918 AND 1919 IN GLOUCESTER- 
SHIRE, Erc. 
By C. GRanvitLE Ciurtersuck, F.E.S. 
In 1918, the last and most critical year of the war, my 
volunteer duties seriously curtailed my spare time. Easter was 
devoted to a musketry course, and, having obtained a First 
Class Instructor’s Certificate, I was one of those selected to take 
a class which met two nights a week and carried on until the 
middle of June. Added to which the claims of an allotment still 
further interfered with field work, although it supplied me with 
a few interesting captures. The following were the most note- 
worthy species secured: Depressaria capreolella, March 21st on 
the wing in the sunshine, Forest of Dean; Cheimophila (Dasy- 
stoma) salicella, males flying freely round a willow tree on roadside 
in the morning of March 24th ; Polyploca ridens emerged April 6th, 
larva beaten from oak June 16th, 1917; Ornix favigora, on the 
wing on Cotteswolds, May 5th; Yortrix (Sciaphila) virgaureana, 
emerged June 15th, larva found on our hills feeding on flowers 
of Anemone pulsatilla, May 9th; Lithocolletis oxyacanthe, on 
wing in garden, May 13th; Coleophora alcyonipennella, netted in 
a wood near Gloucester, May 16th; Sesia formiciformis, in num- 
bers, settling on flowers of dewberry, black bryony and comfrey 
in an osier bed, June 2nd; Acrolepia perlepidella, beaten out of 
small-leaved lime (T%lia cordifolia) in Leigh Woods, June 6th ; 
Brenthis selene, Chrysophanus phleas and Sesia bombyliformis 
(narrow bordered), at flowers of dewberry, Forest of Dean, June 
12th; 2 Hriogaster (Bombyx) rubi, detected by my wife amongst 
erass on our hills, June 18th; Coleophora lineola, amongst 
Ballota nigra near my allotment, June 20th; Mompha pro- 
pingquella, on our hills, June 29th; Hpinotia (Trycherts) aurana, 
on flowers of Heracleum sphondylium on a hilly roadside, July 
4th ; Tinea albipunctella, taken on a road near Gloucester, July 
5th; and Polygonia c-album, var. Hutchinsoni, netted in my 
garden, July 9th. 
In North Devon, between July 26th and August 13th, the 
following species were noted: Nepticula trimaculella ; Macroglossa 
stellatarum (at flower of Hchium vulgare); Stenia punctalis, 
T'riphena interjecta (on the wing in the afternoon); HMucosma 
(Pedisca) profundana, Scoparta truncicolella (beaten from alders 
on the bank of a stream); Avristotelia (Apodia) bifractella (on 
flowers of Inula conyza); Pyrameis cardui, Epinephele jurtina 
(bleached variety); Hupecilia atricapitana and Catoptria pupillana. 
A large black fly, bearing a wonderful resemblance to a humble 
bee, was taken on August 12th and identified by Mr. Claude 
Morley as Echinomyia grossa, L. A brilliant, metallic, copper- 
coloured gall-fly, taken at the same time, was identified as 
Chalecid—Torymus regius, Nees. 
