on gomt 



in 1891, 



By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A., F.E.S. 



I 



PKOPOSE in this paper to give a short account of the 

 entomological work done during the past season by 

 Mrs. Richardson and myself, which has been almost 

 entirely confined to the Lepidoptera, or butterflies 

 and moths, though I have done a little also in some 

 other orders, but not enough to deserve much 

 mention. 



I do not think that the season's campaign can be 

 considered to have commenced much before 

 May, early in which month I made several expeditions to 

 some woods situated at a distance of a few miles from 

 Weymouth. The species which was the special object of my 

 search was Steganoptycha subsequana, a little moth which was 

 figured in Yol. XI. of our " Proceedings," and which I have found 

 in these woods for three years, but always in very small numbers. 

 The wood contains various kinds of fir trees, besides oaks, &c., and 

 more than one species of fir is frequented by this moth, the larva 

 of which is not yet known. It is very local and occurs chiefly in 

 one small spot in the wood, which does not appear to differ from 

 many others where the moth seems almost entirely absent. I have 

 generally taken the greatest number of specimens in the early 

 afternoon, though there certainly is a natural flight at dusk, at 

 which time, however, I have captured but very few, owing to the 



