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hawthorn on the Gogs. E. plumbeolata, Haw., E. pygmaeata, 

 and E. valerianata, Hb., are not uncommon at Wicken, and 

 E. subciliata, Gn. occurs near Cambridge, but more commonly 

 at Boxworth. Collix sparsata, Hb., and Lobophora, sexalisata,, 

 Hb., are plentiful at Wicken. Anticlea cucullata, Hufh. 

 occurs all over the chalk, and A. berberata, Schiff., although 

 having its head-quarters at Bury St Edmund's, in Suffolk, has 

 been taken by the writer on the Gogmagogs. Coremia 

 quadrifasciata, Clerck, occurs sparingly in the west, and also 

 near Cambridge. Phibalapteryx polygrammata, Bork., now 

 extinct, was not uncommon in Bur well Fen, but repeated 

 efforts to rediscover it have met with failure. 



Two unexpected species are recorded by Jenyns, Eucosmia 

 undulata, L., and Cidaria psitticata, Schiff., the former near 

 Cambridge, and the latter at Bottisharn. 



Cidaria sagittata, Fb., which may be found commonly all 

 through the Fens from Bottisham to Chatteris, almost dis- 

 appeared about 1892, to turn up as plentiful as ever six years 

 after. Mesotype virgata, Rott., occurs in the Devil's Ditch, 

 and Jenyns records Tanagra atrata, L., as being common on 

 Gamlingay Heath in the spring of 1829. 



Pyralides. 



A good number of the PYRALIDES may be collected in 

 Cambridgeshire; Aglossa cuprealis, Hb., may sometimes be 

 found commonly in outhouses, especially in the Fen villages. 

 Scoparia pallida, St. is abundant in Wicken and Chippenham 

 Fens. Spilodes sticticalis, L., and 8. pakalis, Schiff., have 

 both been taken. Orobena extimalis, Scop., and Perinephele 

 lancialis, Schiff., although very rare have been taken by the 

 writer, the former at Fulbourn, and on the Suffolk boundary, 

 the latter at Chippenham. The beautiful Nascia cilialis, Hb. 

 occurring nowhere else in Britain comes to "light" abundantly 

 in Wicken Fen. Acentropus niveus,Q\is. is sometimes common 

 on the river near Ely. 



