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while its flight lasts, which is not for long; and 7. acacie is 
fairly numerous in the same locality about the beginning of June. 
Not easily distinguished on the wing from T’. acacie is 1’. ilicis, 
but, although I only took one in the Cork Woods on June 14th, 
I cannot say authoritatively whether it is rare or common. Of 
common occurrence is T'hestor ballus, the females appearing about 
the middle of March, and the males a little later. Commonly 
met with on the Rock is Polyommatus phleas, and it may be seen 
about the second week in March; but the variety eleus is not so 
common, and appears later, generally towards the end of the 
month, the 24th, being the date upon which I first observed it. 
Cupido beticus is common on the Rock, as is also C. telicanus, 
the latter of which I noted on the 16th June, but I also took it 
during the previous September in the Woods. C. icarus is also 
plentiful at Gibraltar, and may be observed during the second 
week in March. I have no notice of the appearance of C. argiolus 
on the Rock, but I fancy that I can remember its occurrence 
there, although it is fairly numerous in Spain, but, on account of 
its predilection for bramble, itis not so easy of capture. C.medon 
is common on the Rock: Hesperia proto, Erynnis alcee#, and 
another that I have not identified, I took, but am not certain of 
the exact locality. In the Cork Woods Thymelicus thauwmas and 
T. actgon are numerous. Pamphila nostrodamus I took in 
September in the woods, and again on the 5th June. I visited 
Tangier occasionally during my stay, but I was not very successful, 
the great drought no doubt being one of the causes. My list of 
captures there reached a total only of twenty-two species. 
The year of my stay was unfavourable for Lepidoptera, it 
being a more than ordinarily dry season, the previous spring 
having been very wet; otherwise my list of captures would probably 
have been more extensive. 
September 10, 1883. 
TORTRICES AND TINEINA BRED AND CAPTURED IN 1883. 
By GrorcE ELIsHA. 
OnE is often deterred from publishing one’s own practical 
experiences from fear of hearing it said that all that is already 
known ; but the following few notes and list of localities may be 
