64 DORSET LEPIDOPTERA IN 1892-3. 



(which was scarce), Rliodophcea advenella, Tortrix n-aice{jana, 

 Sciapliila sinuana, EupoeciUa geyeriana, Tinea alhipundella, 

 Tinagma hetulce (not so common as in 1891), Gracilaria imperial- 

 ella (one specimen, the second only recorded in Dorset), Cosmopteryx 

 orichalceUa (two specimens, new to the county), and several species 

 of Machista—a genus which appears to be in force at Bloxworth. 

 Micropteryx Kaltenhacldi is recorded by Mr. E. K. Bankes as new 

 to the county, taken by himself at Corfe Castle, April 22nd, 1893, 

 and Bryotrop>ha tetragonella, also new to Dorset, taken by Rev. C. R. 

 Digby, at Studland, at the end of June, 1892. This is probably 

 the last addition that Mr. Digby has made to our county fauna, 

 and it is a source of great regret that so good an Entomologist 

 should have left Dorset. I have no doubt, however, that he will 

 continue his work in Hampshire and make many new discoveries, 

 Mr. Bankes has also turned up Coleophora deauraiella in Purbeck, 

 which is new to that district, though not to the county. (E.M.M. 

 xxix., 46-47.) 



I may mention the occurrence of a specimen of DasypoUa 

 templi at Portland, in September last, which I have not taken 

 there before. On the same night Epunda Uchenea was very 

 abundant, especially during the rainstorms, which were frequent 

 and heavy, causing Mrs. Richardson and myself to spend a good 

 part of the time in a cave. We had two large attracting lamps 

 and the moths came in little swarms, five or six being on the glass 

 at once, but as soon as the storm cleared off their flight almost 

 ceased . 



On the Chesil Beach occur several species of the genus Lita, 

 which have hitherto been much confounded together on account of 

 their variation and general resemblance to each other. This little 

 group has been the subject of a paper by myself in the Ent. 

 Monthly Magazine (xxix., 241), which deals specially with four of 

 the species, the other British species being the subject of a paper 

 by jMr. P]. R. Bankes, which will, I understand, be published 

 shortly in the same magazine, and which I must not anticipate. 

 (E.M.M., XXX.,. 80.) 



