PORTLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 177 



P^EDISCA CORTICANA, HI. Scarce. One on July llth, 1889 



(N. M. R.) 

 EPHIPPIPHORA CIRSIANA, Zell. Not uncommon. Larva at base of 



stems of Inula dysenterica. 

 ,, PFLUGIANA, Haw. Not uncommon. 



,, BRUNNICHIANA, Frol. Common among coltsfoot. 



INOPIANA, Haw. Not uncommon. 



NIGRICOSTANA, Haw. Larva in stems of Stachys 



sylvatica. 

 TRIGEMINANA, St. Recorded Proc. I., 60, as " Not 



common." (C. W. D.) 



SEMASIA SPINIANA, Fiscli. Recorded Proc. I., 60 (C. W. D.). It 

 is not, however, " Common " as there stated. I 

 am not aware of any recent captures. 

 RUFILLANA, Will*. Larva common in heads of Dauc.us 



carota. 



W(EBERiANA, Scliiff. Not common (C. P.) 

 STIGMONOTA OROBANA, Tr. The moth taken by Mr. J. C. Dale, 

 May 30th, 1842, and recorded in Proc. I., 60, and 

 Lep. Dorset, 1st Edn., p. 44, as/S'. interruptana, H.-S., 

 and in Lep. Dorset, 2nd Edn., p. 47, as S. dorsana, 

 Fb., is, in my opinion, undoubtedly a large female 

 specimen of S. crolana. Though the size (7 lines) 

 is above that of any orobana that I have measured, 

 and also 1 line greater than that given in the Ent. 

 Monthly Mag. X., 148, yet Meyrick in his "Hand- 

 book of British Lepidoptera " gives the size as 1 2 

 15mm., 15mm. being rather over 7 lines. Mr. 

 Bankes tells me that he has in his cabinet two 

 specimens, " which, though not set flat, measure 

 jg inch." (jg in. = 6| lines.) 



,, COMPOSITELLA, Fb. In fields on the top of Portland 



(E. R.B.) 



NOTE. Stigmonota nitidana, Fb., was recorded by mistake in Proc. I., 

 GO, and Lep. Dorset, 1st Edn., p. 44, but omitted in 2nd Edn, 



