INSECTS 



Haslemere, Reigate, Worcester Park and Croydon. Heliophobus popu- 

 /aris, Fb., occurs commonly at ' light ' at Haslemere, Dorking, Reigate, 

 Leatherhead, Surbiton, Worcester Park and many other places. Gharceas 

 graminis, L., is common in many places in the Reigate district, on 

 Wimbledon Common and about Kingston and Richmond Park. The 

 rare Pachetra leucophaea^ View, used to be taken on the Mickleham 1 

 Downs and probably still occurs there. Cerigo cytherea, Fb., is generally 

 distributed and so is Luperina testacea, Hb., but L. cespitis, Fb., is very 

 local. I have taken it on Tolworth Common, Surbiton. Mr. Kaye 

 reports it from Worcester Park. Mr. Briggs records it from Leather- 

 head and Major Ficklin from Wimbledon and Richmond Park. 

 Mamestra anceps, Hb. ; M. brassicce, L., and M. persicarice, L., all occur 

 in the Reigate district, and are generally abundant everywhere. Apamea 

 basilinea, Fb. ; A, gemina, Hb. ; A. unanimis, Fr. ; A. jibrosa, Hb., and A. 

 ocu/ea, Gn., are generally distributed and usually abundant at ' sugar ' or 

 * light.' A. ophiogramma, Esp., is much more local than its congeners, but 

 it is not uncommon in the London district amongst willows and that 

 handsome grass Phalaris arundinacea, which is so plentiful on the islands 

 and on the banks of the Thames. Miana strigi/is, Clerck ; M. fasciuncula, 

 Haw. ; M. /iferosa, Haw., and M.furuncu/a, Tr., are common everywhere, 

 and M. arcuosa, Haw., has been recorded from many places in the 

 county. Grammesia tritinea, Bork. ; Caradrina morpbeus, Hufn. ; C. 

 blanda, Tr. ; C. a/sines, Brahm ; C. cubicularis, Bork., and Rusina tenebrosa, 

 Bork., are everywhere common. Caradrina ambigua has been taken at 

 Worcester Park. Agrotis puta, Hb. ; A. su/usa, Hb. ; A. sauci'a, Hb. ; 

 A. segetum, Schiff. ; A. exc/amationis, L. ; A. nigricans, L. ; A. tritici, L. ; 

 A, aquilina, Hb. ; A. porphyrea, Hb., and A. ravida, Hb., are all 

 recorded by Mr. Webb from the Reigate and Dorking district, and 

 many of them are common at Leatherhead, Oxshott, Surbiton, Kings- 

 ton, Wimbledon, Richmond and elsewhere in the metropolitan district. 

 Mr. Webb also reports the local A. cinerea, Hb., from Box Hill and 

 Reigate Hill, but the species is much commoner on the downs about 

 Brighton and Lewes than in Surrey. A. agathina^ Dap., occurs com- 

 monly, especially in the larval state, about Shirley, Oxshott Heath 

 and in other similar localities in the county. Tryphcena iantbina, Esp. ; 

 T. fimbria^ L. ; T. interjecta, Hb. ; T. orbona, Fb., and T. pronuba, L., 

 are all reported by Mr. Barrett from Haslemere, by Mr. Webb from 

 the Reigate district and by Major Ficklin from the neighbourhood of 

 Kingston and Richmond. T. iantbina, C T. orbona and T. pronuba are 

 common everywhere. T. jimbria also occurs at Ashtead and Wimbledon, 

 but is generally much more local than its congeners, and T. interjecta is 

 not of universal distribution. Noctua g/areosa, Esp. ; N. augur, Fb. ; 

 N. p/ecta, L. ; N. c-nigrum, L. ; N. triangu/um, Hufn. ; N. brunnea, Fb. ; 

 N. festiva, Hb. ; N. rubi, View ; N. umbrosa, Hb. ; N. baja, Fb. ; N. 

 neg/ecta, Hb., and N. xanthographa^ Fb., are all recorded by Mr. Webb 



1 Mr. Barrett informs me that Mr. Adkin found P. leucofhoea on Box Hill a few years ago. H. G. 



I 129 K 



