PORTLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 163 



EPUNDA LICHENEA, Hb. Common. Always very pale in colour, 

 sometimes extremely so. The Portland form has 

 a much whiter ground colour than the forms 

 found at Torquay and elsewhere. There is much 

 less ochreous and rarely any brick-red in the 

 mottling of the fore-wings, and the hind wings 

 are much paler in both sexes, being nearly white 

 in the male. Altogether it is a greyer, colder-looking 

 insect. 



MISELIA OXYACANTH/E, L. Common. 



PHLOGOPHORA METICULOSA, L. Abundant as elsewhere. 



APLECTA NEBULOSA, Hufn. Very scarce (C. P.) 



HADENA ADUSTA, Esp. Some good varieties (C. P.) 

 ,, DENTINA, Esp. Rather scarce. 

 ,, TRIFOLII, Rott. Rather common. 



ALBIFUSA, Walker, Grote. The only recorded British 

 specimen of this North American moth was taken 

 by (C. P.) on August 15th, 1888, near Portland 

 Castle. Albifusa, originally described as a distinct 

 species by Walker, was referred by Grote to trifolii, 

 Rott. If this is correct its occurrence at Portland 

 is more easily explained as a variety of a moth 

 which is common there, though odd specimens of 

 American species are occasionally taken in this 

 country (See Entom. Monthly Mag. XXV., pp. 180, 

 228). 



OLERACEA, L. Common. 

 THALASSINA, Rott. One (C. P.) 



XYLINID.E. 



XYLOCAMPA AREOLA, Esp. One (C. P.) 

 CALOCAMPA VETUSTA, Hb. Scarce (C. P.) 



EXOLETA, L. Scarce (C. P.) 



CUCULLIA VERBASCI, L. Larva sometimes common on Verbascwn 

 thapsus. 



