PORTLAND LEP1DOPTERA. 157 



XYLOPHASIA RUREA, Fb. Scarce (C. P.) 

 LITHOXYLBA, Fb. Common. 



SUBLUSTRIS, Esp. Not very common. 



,, MONOGLYPHA, Hufn. One of the most abundant moths 



at sugar. A specimen nearly as dark as the darkest 

 Scotch forms with small lighter patches on the 

 inner margin occurred July 27th, 1888 (N. M. R.) 

 Colonel Partridge also took a similar dark variety. 



APOROPHYLA AUSTRALIS, Bdv. Occurs regularly hut never in any 

 numbers. The specimens are large and often hand- 

 somely marked with a very white ground. (Ent. 

 Mon. Mag. XXYIL, 119). 



LAPHYGMA EXIGUA, Hb. Two shaken out of the vegetation on the 

 edge of a gravel pit on the Chesil Beach by Rev. 

 0. P. Cambridge, June, 1879. 



NEURIA RETICULATA, Vill. Not uncommon, but never in numbers. 



NEURONIA POPULARIS, Fb. Scarce. One (C. P.) 



HELIOPHOBUS HISPIDUS, Hb. Common, and variable in depth of 

 colour. This beautiful moth used to be considered 

 rare at Portland, being only searched for in the day 

 time. It seems to occur all over the island. Three 

 varieties are figured (Proc. Vol. XL, p. 46). 



CHAR^AS GRAMINIS, L. One at light (C. P.) 



CERIGO MATURA, Hufn. Common. 



LUPERINA TESTACEA, Hb. Common. A dark form sometimes occurs 

 and a very delicately marked specimen (var. Gueneeil) 

 was taken by Colonel Partridge in 1889. 



,, DUMERILI, Dup. Two by Mr. Sealy. The following was 

 extracted by myself when Hon. Sec. of the Cam- 

 bridge Entomological Society in 1878 from its 

 Manuscript Book of Transactions and may, I think, 

 be looked upon as an authentic account of the 

 occurrence of this species (about which there have 

 been so many different tales and so much discussion) 

 at Portland, though that locality is not actually 



