INSECTS 



BOMBYCES (continued') 



BoMBYCIDAE 



Trichiura crataegi, L. Leicester, Ashby de la Zouch, 

 Market Harborough, Loughborough ; larvae, Mar- 

 ket Bosworth 



Poecilocampa populi, L. Gen. dist., larvae, Leicester, 

 Market Bosworth 



Eriogaster lanestris, L. c. in larvae state 



Bombyx neustria, L. Quorn, Loughborough, Market 

 Harborough s a form without the white lines 

 occurs in the Soar Valley 



quercus, L. Widely dist. but n.c. 

 Odonestris potatoria, L. Gen. dist., larvae c. 

 Lasiocampa quercifolia, L. Leicester, Earl Shilton, no 



recent record 



SATURNIIDAE 

 Saturnia carpini, Schiff. Two old records, now extinct 



DREPANULIDAE 



Deprana lacertinaria, L. Bardon Hill on birch ; 

 Ashby de la Zouch 



falcataria, L. Owston and Cloud Woods, Bardon 



Hill 



binaria, Hufn. Market Bosworth, Bardon Hill, 



Loughborough 

 Cilix glaucata, Scop. Gen. Dist. 



DlCRANURIDAE 



Dicranura furcula, L. Leicester, Loughborough, Gumley, 

 Cloud Wood, i. 



bifida, Hb. Loughborough, Cloud Wood, Gumley 



vinula, L. Gen. dist. 



NoTODONTIDAE 



Pterostoma palpina, L. Market Bosworth, Leicester, 



Quorn, Gumley ; freely at light, also bred 

 Lophopteryx camelina, L. Gen. dist. 



cuculla, Esp. Stoneygate 



Notodonta dictaea, L. Leicester, Loughborough, Gumley 



dictaeoides, Esp. Quorn 



dromedarius, L. Bardon Hill, Cloud Wood, Lough- 



borough, Gumley 



ziczac, L. Market Bosworth ; larvae Bardon Hill, 



Loughborough 



chaonia, Hb. Loughborough, larvae 



trimacula, Esp. Seal Wood, Loughborough 



PYGAERIDAE 

 Phalera bucephala, L. Gen. dist. 



CYMATOPHORIDAE 



Thyatira derasa, L. Market Bosworth at sugar, 

 (Birkenhead), Leicester district, Loughborough, 

 Gumley, n.c. 



batis, L. Locally at sugar, Leicester, Loughborough, 



Market Harborough 

 Cymatophora or, Fb. Gumley 



duplaris, L. Buddon Wood at sugar 



fluctuosa, Hb. Nr. Market Harborough 

 Asphalia diluta, Fb. Knlghton, Loughborough, Gumley 



flavicornis, L. Bardon Hill at rest, larvae in rolled 



up leaves of birch (Bouskell) 



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NOCTUAE 

 BRYOPHILIDAE 



Bryophila muralis, Forst. Nr. Market Harborough 

 (Matthews) 



perla, Fb. Gen. dist. on granite walls 



BOMBYCOIDAE 



Demas coryli, L. Buddon Wood, larvae also 

 Acronycta tridens, Schiff. Larvae gen. dist. 



psi, L. v.c. 



leporina, L. Cloud Wood, I. (Rev. G. A. Small- 



wood) 



aceris, L. Bradgate Park, Gumley, Loughborough 



megacephela, Fb. Loughborough, Gumley, &c. 



alni, L. Larvae from Market Bosworth, Knightm, 



Loughborough, Gumley, Ashby 



ligustri, Fb. Larvae nr. Loughborough, Gumley 



rumicis, L. Leicester, Owston Wood, Market Bos- 



worth, Loughborough, Gumley, larvae fairly c. 

 Diloba caeruleocephala, L. c. 



LEUCANIIDAE 



Leucania conigera. Aylcstone, Bradgate at sugar; Mar- 

 ket Bosworth, Loughborough, Owston Wood, Gumley 



- turca, L. Nr. Loughborough (Weildt) 



lithargyri.i, Esp. Gen. dist. 



obsoleta, Hb. Nr. Market Harbonugh (Matthews) 



- comma, L. Gen. dist. 



impura, Hb. Gen. dist. 



pallens, L. Gen. dist. 

 Coenobia rufa, Haw. Aylcstone 



Tapinostola fulva, Hb. Market Bosworth, Leicester, 



Gumley, Owston Wcod 

 Nonagria arundinis, Fb. In reed mace, John o' 



Gaunt, Loughborough, Gumley 

 Calamia lutosa, Hb. Gumley 



APAMEIDAE 



Gortyna flavago, Esp. Market Bosworth, Leicester, 



Gumley, Bardon Hill 

 Hydroecia nictitans, Bork. Gen. dist. 



petasitis, Dbl. Stoneygate 



micacea, Esp. Loughborough, Gumley, Market Bos- 



worth, Leicester, n.c. 

 Axylia putris, L. Widely dist. 

 Xylophasia rurea, Fb. c. 



- lithoxylea, Fb. Gen. dist. 



sublustris, Esp. Quorn, Market Bosworth, Lough- 



borough, Gumley, n.c. 



monoglypha, Hufn. v.c. 



hepatica, L. Gen. dist. 



scolopacina, Esp. Gumley 



Neuria reticulata, Vill. Loughborough (Weildt) 



Neuronia popularis, F. c. 



Chareas graminis, L. c. 



Cerigo matura, Hufn. Quorn, Blaby, Gumley, Owston 



Wood, at sugar 

 Luperina testacea, Hb. c. 



cespitis, Fb. Stoneygate (Bouskell) 

 Mamestra abjecta, Hb. Knighton, Gumley 



sordida, Bork. Stoneygate, Glen Parva 



albicolon, Hb. Quorn 

 furva, Hb. Gumley 



brassicae, L. v.c. 



persicariae, L. v.c. 



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