246 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
During a fortnight’s stay at Deal, during the end of July, I 
captured fine specimens of Argyrolepia mussehliana, Eupecilia 
rupicolana, Chauliodus illigerella, D. alpinana, Grapholita nigro- 
maculana, A. badiana, and numbers of others, to mention which 
would perhaps occupy too much space. 
During last month I found the larve of C. inflatella tolerably 
plentiful in the lanes about Croydon, and this month (September) 
the larva of G. inopella in seed-heads of Inula dysenterica in the 
chalk-pit at Northfleet. 
From the above few notes regarding some of the species bred 
this season, it will be seen that there is plenty to be done during 
the autumn and winter in collecting larve of various species, 
which when bred, sometimes rather freely although scarcely ever 
seen at large in the perfect state, amply repay for many an 
unpleasant journey during the dreary winter months. 
122, Shepherdess Walk, City Road, Sept. 16, 1888. 
A MONTH AT MORTHOE, NORTH DEVON. 
By W. S. Ripine, B.A., M.D. 
Tue wooded combes of North-East Devon begin to be missed 
at Morthoe. A few ash, a few weather-beaten elms and syca- 
mores, are all the trees of any size within a circuit of two 
miles. The ‘‘bare-worn ribs and joints of old starved mother 
earth,” so graphically described by Kingsley, are covered with 
rough pasturage, a few cultivated fields, and moorland where 
heather luxuriates. The sand-hills at Woollacombe, about a 
mile to the south, bound together by maram grass, are the home 
of sea-spurge, great mullein, foxglove, and hound’s-tongue ; and 
further inland the irregular ground is filled with vegetation,— 
stunted privet, elder, honeysuckle, gorse, bracken, Scotch and 
English heather, teasel, ragwort, bugloss, willow-herb, hemp- 
agrimony, loose-strife, and numberless small plants. 
The following notes on Lepidoptera, observed at Morthoe and 
the adjoining districts, refer, in point of time, to the interval 
between the middle of August and September 16th of the present 
year. 
The common Diurni were all fairly represented. Vanessa 
