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thoroughly ungenial, excepting about a fortnight at the end of June and 

 beginning of July, which was fine, fairly warm and seasonable. Many of 

 the commonest Lepidoptera either made no appearance at all, or required 

 close search to find them. I noticed, however, some few exceptions to this, 

 and in one or two cases species hitherto scarce were abundant. Among the 

 exceptions alluded to, Tortrix viridana was excessively abundant in some 

 (fortunately restricted) localities. The larvao also of H alias prasinana were 

 abundant, but not followed by any corresponding plenty of the perfect 

 insect. I did not see a single specimen all the season of Pontia brassicm, 

 and only a very few of P. rapa. Epinepliele ianira was also very scarce, while 

 Coinonympha pamphilus was rather abundant, as also was Nemeobius 

 lucina ; of this last pretty little butterfly (which occurs here every year in 

 greater or less numbers), I caught three one afternoon with one stroke of 

 my net. Sugaring was tried at various times, but after some repeated trials,- 

 when scarcely an insect of any kind appeared, it was relinquished. The 

 following were among the best captures of the season ; almost all are Micro- 

 Lepidoptera, the Macros being conspicuous by their absence. I have not 

 thought it worth while to place the following insects in systematic order, but 

 have merely jotted them down as they occur in my notes of the season : — 

 Phycita abietella (3), beat from Scotch firs. Phoxopteryx subarcuana, 

 abundant. Bactra lanceolana, two of the richest golden brown variety I 

 have ever seen. Phoxopteryx diminutana, several. Aciptilia paludum, 

 very scarce; only two or three. Aventia ftexula, one; in a gooseberry 

 bush. Stigmonola coniferana, one; from Scotch fir. This is the first I 

 have ever taken here. Emmelesia unifasciata, one. Zelleria insigni- 

 penella, two ; beat from underwood. Gleudora cytisella, abundant (though 

 usually scarce); swept among common bracken ; a large proportion neces- 

 sarily much injured l)y sweeping among this stiff wiry fern, lietinia pini- 

 colana, one ; from Scotch fir. Melani/>pe xvnangidata, several ; in some 

 seasons it is fairly abundant. CkauUodus itiigcreUus, abundant. Ambly- 

 ptilia cosmodactyla, one. Cosmopteryx orichalceLla, very abundant. This 

 is only the second recorded occurrence of the species in Dorsetshire ; 

 two years ago (1892) I met with two specimens on July 7th, among 

 herbage in a wood at a considerable elevation, and on a chalk soil; this last 

 year (1894) it occurred abundantly, a long distance from the chalk, among 

 coarse grass in a swampy spot on the heath, from June 13th to July 13th. 

 Almost all were obtained by sweeping, a few only being observed and boxed 

 sitting on grass stems ; on some evenings I met with from forty to fifty, 

 and after discarding numbers injured in sweeping there remained about 230 

 specimens, some — in fact, a fair proportion — being as fine as if bred. Fresh 

 specimens were still appearing, when, on July 13th, I was obliged to give 

 over the search. After consultation with Mr. Eustace Bankes as to the 

 probable time of the appearance of a second brood, L again worked the same 

 spot repeatedly, in August and early in September, but saw no trace of the 

 species. It seems, therefore, doubtful whether it is of double appearance 

 or not. Elachista gleichenella, very scarce ; in some seasons it is abundant. 

 Pancalia lewenhoekella, one. Elachista pallidum, very scarce. Eupascilia 

 geyeriana, very scarce in its original locality, but more abundant in a fresh 

 locality at a considerable distance, and on a heath-bog — a totally difi'ereut 

 kind of situation from that in which it had been before found iu this district. 

 The larvae must, probably, in this new spot, have bred on the common louse- 

 wort [Pedicularis sylvatlca), as the marsh lousewort [Pedicularis palustris) 

 does not grow anywhere in the neighbourhood. Phoxopteryx siculana, rare ; 

 only three or four. — (Rev.)O. P. Cambridge ; Bloxworih Kectory, Feb. 11th. 



