160 PORTLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



AGROTIS RIP.E, HI. Beautiful and rare forms of tins species 

 occur locally on Chesil Beach, amongst which 

 may be mentioned almost white specimens, others 

 dusted or clouded with grey and brown, others 

 with bright ochreous ground colour, the forms 

 from most localities being much plainer in appear- 

 ance. 



CURSORIA, Boric. Recorded (C. W. D., Proc., Vol. I,, p. 55) 

 as taken on the Chesil Beach by Mr. Bentley and 

 Professor Henslow, but, from the very unusual range 

 of variation in A. ripce in that locality, some 

 specimens of which approach varieties of cursoria, 

 it is possible that the specimens may have been 

 wrongly determined. It has not been taken there 

 for many years, and there is no other record of its 

 capture. 



MGRICANS, L. Common. 



,, TRITICI, L. Abundant on Chesil Beach. Some of the 

 varieties, with pale costal streaks, are very hand- 

 some. 



,, STRIGULA, Thnb. One near Pennsylvania, at sugar, July 

 12th, 1895 (N. M. R.) One was also taken at the 

 Upper Lighthouse by (J. J. W.) 



PR.ECOX, L. Taken in 1843 on Chesil Beach by Messrs. 

 Curtis and J. C. Dale. No recent records. The 

 following extract from Haworth's " Lepidoptera 

 Britannica," Part II., p. 201, is of interest : 

 "Although I have known this moth to be taken 

 even in London, but on a flower-pot brought 

 from the country, the Portland Islands seem the 

 only places where it abounds with us ; and there 

 that great patroness of Natural History, the late 

 Duchess of Portland, first found it. Of her rearing 

 I have possessed many specimens, and have seen a 

 great number of others," 



