248 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
feeding when young on the flower-buds and unripe capsules, and 
when nearly full-grown on the leaves; they for the most part 
changed into pupex early in September. Larvae of D. conspersa 
and D. capsincola were taken on the same plant. All these were 
also found, together with a few D. carpophaga, feeding on the cap- 
sules of Lychnis vespertina, L. diurna, and Silene inflata, but the 
great majority on these plants consisted of those of D. capsincola, 
with a good many of Hmmelesia afinitata and E. decolorata. 
Imagines of Bryophila perla and B. glandifera were found, the 
former in large numbers, on old walls. 
During the latter part of August sugar seemed a failure ; only 
a few of the commonest insects were attracted. The first week 
in September was wet and stormy, and prevented evening 
excursions, but the second week was very favourable, and 
autumnal species began to emerge freely. I was fortunate 
enough to take three males and four females of Polia nigrocincta 
in fine condition. This is, I believe, the first time the insect has 
been taken in England, with the exception of the solitary speci- 
men captured at Padstow in 1862, although imagines and larve, 
the latter especially, have been found pretty freely in the Isle of 
Man. ‘The specimens I have seen from that locality have a less 
distinct black band. I was sugaring some hundred and fifty 
yards from the cliffs on which Silene maritima abounded, and at 
a height of about three hundred feet: Armeria maritima was 
also growing freely around. Other insects that came to sugar 
were Hpunda lutulenta, E. nigra, Noctua glareosa (in large num- 
bers), N. brunnea, all sorts of varieties of Lwperina testacea, 
from strongly-marked specimens to those in which the lines were 
barely discernible, Anchocelis lunosa, A. pistacina, A. pyramidea, 
and Stilbia anomala, besides numbers of the commoner Lepi- 
doptera. ‘Two freshly-emerged males of S. anomala were taken ; 
one was disturbed from heather during the daytime, and the 
other was found at rest on gorse at night. On the thorns of this 
shrub I took many insects, especially when the wind was high, 
as they appeared stupefied, and were easily boxed. Several 
females of S. anomala were also secured by beating the heather, 
—they were for the most part a little worn ; from two I obtained a 
fair supply of eggs. Amongst the Pyralides noticed were Herbula 
cespitalis, Pyrausta purpuralis, Scopula lutealis (abundant in lanes), 
S. prunalis, Scoparia cembralis, S. ambigualis, S. resinalis, S. 
