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bores or the smell— aptly compared to a goat — which it emits from its livid red 

 and yellow skin. 



The pretty little Calligena miniata is not uncommon and is one of tho 

 additions to the county list. 



Liparis monacha, often rather a scarce species, cannot be called so here, 

 as I have taken over 20 specimens in 2 hours at rest, chiefly on oak where the 

 trees were growing thickly and free from underwood. 



This insect when at rest closely resembles the lichens growing on oak 

 trunks, au 1 for that reason selects that tree as a hiding place. 



The females, as is the case with the entire family, are far less volatile than 

 the males, and make not the slightest attempt to escape when captured. 



I was fortunate in meeting with another species of the same genus, Liparis 

 chrysorrhcea, and this, I believe, has not been taken in Herefordshire before. 



Of the Geomctrce many good species occur. Prunaria extersaria and 

 cytisaria appear to be new, but all are scarce here. 



The showy Abraxas ulmata, common beyond Pontrilas and between that 

 station and Pandy, where its food plant, the Wych Elm, grows freely, is unfortu- 

 nately just outside my hunting ground, and fiom its sluggish habits is not likely 

 to extead its locality. 



The entire genus Hybemia occurs, Lmoophmria exhibiting some striking 

 varieties in the males. The females, being wingless, are not able to show any 

 pecularities of marking. 



The Eupithecice have at present received little attention. E. rectangu 7 ata 

 abounds in all our orchards, frequently as many as a dozen specimens may 

 be found on a single tree. 



Of the rare Dicranura bicuspis I have found several empty cocoons, 

 generally on Birch, but once on Alder, and the other species of this pretty 

 genus have left marks of their presence on their respective food plants, though 

 by no means freely. Scarce as they are, their numbers seem greatly on the 

 decrease. 



The egg laid as it is, on the upper side of a leaf, and perfectly exposed, 

 often falls a prey to insectiverous birds, and should it escape these foes and 

 the larvae hatch and flourish, greedy Ichneumons seem ever on the watch to 

 lay ?n egg or eggs on their hapless victim, and by slowly devouring all but 

 his vitals, to flourish, and produce another race of parasites to continue their 

 revolting ravages on future generation of harmless and helpless larvae. If 

 the larva; escape these dangers, they form hard, horny water-tight cocoons — not 

 unlike half a walnut shell in shape or texture — on the back of the tree they 

 feed on, or if that be too small, they descend it and construct their winter 

 retreats on a neighbouring trunk, so that although the cocoon of Dicranura, 

 vinula may be found on oak, it by no means proves the larva to have fed on that 

 tree, and a moment's search will show dwarf-aspen at no great distance, and 

 this will have been the real food plant. 



