n some jUre mib floral Jepiboptera lately 

 frumb in ilorsetshire. 



By the Rev. O. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A. 



PLATE II. FIGS. A, B, C, D. 



HE past year (1886) was a remarkably barren one 

 in respect to Lepidoptera ; chiefly so, I imagine, 

 owing to the excessive cold and wet of the month 

 of May. Just at that period the larvae which 

 should produce the summer and autumn insects 

 would be in a young and tender state, and 

 peculiarly liable to destruction from any unusual inclemency of 

 weather. Lycana argiades (Pall), the great catch of 1885, did 

 not turn up at all in 1886, although several nets were at work for 

 it during a good part of the month of August ; in fact, the common 

 blue butterfly L. icarus was comparatively scarce. Our work 

 for L. argiades, however, was not entirely fruitless, as it led to the 

 discovery of Pterophorus paludum (Zeller), one of the curious 

 group of //ww^r-moths, on a piece of boggy ground on Bloxworth 

 Heath ; and also of CEnectra pilieriana (Schiff) a rare and local 

 moth of the large well-marked group of Tortrices or leaf-rollers. 

 Mr. Eustace Bankes has also kindly communicated to me the 

 discovery by the Rev. C. Digby, at Portland, in 1884-85, of the 

 larvae (from which the perfect insects were afterwards bred), of a 



