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‘NOTES, ETC., ON THE PAST SEASON. 269 
During the month of August, at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, 
I met with a few species in considerable numbers. Of these I 
may mention Lycena agestis, L. corydon, and L. alexis. Of the 
last-named I also captured five examples of the aberrant form 
icarinus, and others intermediate between it and the type. Of 
L. corydon I got one female with all the wings beautifully suffused 
with blue, and three or four female specimens quite different to 
any that I have seen before. The wings, especially the inferior 
pair, are shot with blue; the black discoidal spot on fore wing is 
encircled with white ; before the dark brown or blackish hind- 
marginal band is an indistinct bluish white band, interrupted by 
the blackish wing-rays; hind wings with blue discoidal spots. 
(Enectra pilleriana was not so plentiful at Ventnor as I found it 
there in 1879; possibly I was a little late, as several of those I 
captured were much wasted. In the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xix., 
page 135, is a description of the larva of this species by Mr. C. G. 
Barrett. The food-plant given by that gentleman would appear 
to be Statices limonium. The habitat of this plant is one in 
which I should hardly have expected to find Gi. pilleriana. In 
the Isle of Wight I have always found the insect on warm sunny 
banks, never in places likely to be excessively moist at any time. 
The fact of GZ. pilleriana feeding on Statices montium surprises 
me, although I have reason to know that its larva feeds on 
several plants growing in such places where I take the moths 
referred to in the Isle of Wight; and were it not for the well- 
known accuracy of Mr. Barrett in identifying closely allied 
species of the British Tortrices, I should be inclined to doubt his 
assertion that Ginectra pilleriana was bred from larve found 
feeding on a plant which only occurs in salt-marshes or on 
muddy shores. Mr. Barrett, however, has had the opportunity 
of comparing the species he bred with types of Gi. pilleriana 
from the Continent, as also with specimens given him by Mr. 
Bond; so that there really seems to be no room for doubt in the 
matter. 
Catoptria pupillana was very common among plants of Arte- 
misia absynthium; I have often looked for this species among 
A. maritima in several places, but always without success. This 
year I got a large number of specimens by searching the old and 
somewhat scrubby plants of A. absynthiwm ; the insect was often 
at rest on the foliage in the morning, but in the afternoon would 
