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Tortrlx crategana 

 Peronea ferrugana 



„ a*persana 

 Penthina picana 



,, pruniana 

 Spilouota suffusana 

 Sericoris latifasciaca 



Micropteryx subpurpurella 

 Depressaiia ciliella 



TORTRICES. 



OrthotsenH striana 

 Grapholita penklcriana 

 Phlseodes immundana 

 Batodes augustiorana 

 I'm |j ica jirofundana 

 Ephippiphora signatana 

 Betinia piuivorana 



PTEROPHORI. 



Pteropliorus lithodactylus 



TTNE^E, 



Gelechia luculella 

 ,, ltucatella 



Carpocapsa pomonana 



Stigmonota perlepidana 



Stigmnnota regiana 



Catoptria Juliana 

 „ scopoliana 

 ,, Holienwarthiana 



G'ocliylis inopiana 



Ocnphora pseudo-spretella 

 Gracilaria swederella 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA FOUND AT WHITFIELD 



FROM JULY 1869 TO DECEMBER 1870. 



BY MR. F. E. HARMAN, M.R.A.C. 



Gentlemen, — In introducing to your notice a subject like the present, 

 I must be excused if the contents of this paper merit the titles of wearisome 

 and uninteresting. 



A mere list of species — and this paper contains little else — must always 

 be so, and one on a subject to which the Club has hitherto paid but little 

 attention cannot escape the censure. 



I trust at some future time, when Botany and Geology are thoroughly 

 worked out, more members of the Club may turn their attention to the 

 Lepidoptera of the county. A rich field awaits their inspection, and it has 

 the advantage of being almost unknown. Except the district of Leominster 

 no part of the county has — as far as I am aware — received more than a 

 cursory examination, but the results there are sufficient to prove Herefordshire 

 rich in Lepidoptera, and including many rarities. 



To the geologist the relations between the soil, arad the selection of the 

 food plant by the insect, presents a wide fitld for experimental inquiry, and 

 deserve cireful study. 



I was particularly struck last year with these relations — at present so 

 obscure— when searching some Beech trees growing on a poor but deep marl 

 soil near here. 



Not a single larva of even the commonest species would fall to the strokes 

 of the beating stick, but no sooner did I turn my attention to Oak than they fell 

 fast and thick. 



Oa a former collecting ground on the Oolite, Beech was by far the more 



