INSECTS 



Cidaria corylata, Thunb. Generally distributed 

 in woods, sitting by day on tree 

 trunks 



picata, Hb. Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, 



Chalfont Road, Black Park, Amersham ; 

 rather local ; a most beautiful species 



russata, Schiff., truncata, St.C. Every- 



where abundant in hedges and woods 



immanata, Haw. Chesham, Chalfont St. 



Peter, Whittlebury Forest, common at 

 Halt/in 



suffumata, SchifF. Ha/ton, Chalfont St. 



Peter, Chesham ; frequent in lanes and 

 the edges of woods in the spring 



silaceata, SchifF. Marlow, Ha/ton, Ayles- 



bury, Chesham, Whittlebury Forest ; larva 

 upon Epilobium angustifolium 



prunata, Linn. Buckingham, Drayton 



Beauchamp, Chesham ; in gardens among 

 currant bushes 



dotata, Linn. ; associata, St.C. Bucking- 



ham, Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, High 

 Wycombe ; also in gardens among 

 currant 



fulvata, Forst. Generally distributed in 



woods, lanes and gardens, among rose 



pyraliata, Bkh., dotata, St.C. Bucking- 



ham, Chesham, Leckhampstead ; in hedges 

 and gardens about cleavers (Galium 

 aparine) 



populata, Bkh. Recorded from Ches- 



ham by Dr. Churchill 



testata, Linn. Chesham, Buckingham 

 Scotosia vetulata, SchifF. Ha/ton, Chesham, 



Chalfont St. Peter, Drayton Beauchamp, 

 Whittlebury Forest ; among Rhamnus 



rhamnata, SchifF. Ha/ton, Buckingham, 



Taplow, Drayton Beauchamp, Whittle- 

 bury Forest ; also among Rhamnus ; 

 readily attracted by light 



undulata, Linn. Ha/ton, Buckingham 



dubitata, Linn. Generally distributed in 



gardens, lanes and woods, but usually 



not plentiful 

 - certata, Hb. Chesham, Black Park ; 



among Berberis and Mahonia in gardens 

 Camptogramma bilineata, Linn. Abundant 



everywhere 

 Phibalapteryx vitalbata, SchifF. Reared from 



larvae on Clematis at Chesham by Dr. 



Churchill, and taken at Wendover by 



Mr. H. J. Turner 



tersata, SchifF. Chesham, Chalfont St. 



Peter ; about masses of Clematis vitalba 

 in hedges, Wendover 



Thera firmata, Hb. Chalfont St. Peter, 

 Marlow, Black Park ; among Scotch 

 fir 



variata, SchifF. Chalfont St. Peter, Ches- 



ham, Black Park ; common among firs 



Hypsipetes ruberata, Frey ; literata, St.C. 

 Chesham, Ha/ton ; pupa under loose 

 bark of poplars and willows, not com- 

 monly 



impluviata, SchifF. ; trifasciata, St.C. 



Chesham ; common at Ha/ton ; among 

 alder 



elutata, SchifF. ; sordidata, St.C. Every- 



where abundant in hedges and woods 

 Oporabia dilutata, SchifF. Chesham, High 

 Wycombe ; very common at Halton, 

 especially in the larva and pupa states ; 

 probably in most woods ; flying in 

 November 



Cheimatobia boreata, Hb. Chesham, on pal- 

 ings ; found by the Rev. Bernard Smith 

 in 1854, rather commonly in beech 

 woods at Great Afar low and Honor Park, 

 sitting on the trunks of the beeches ; 

 its usual food plant, the birch, being 

 almost absent 



brumata, Linn. Everywhere abundant 



in the winter in woods, orchards and 

 hedges ; larvae most injurious to the 

 apple-crop by feeding in the blossoms 



Lobophora sexalata, Hb. ; sexalisata, St.C. 

 Halton, among sallow 



^ viretata, Hb. Marlow, Chesham ; on tree 

 trunks 



Chesias spartiata, SchifF. Reared by Dr. 

 Churchill from larvae found on broom 

 at Chesham 



Anaitis plagiata, Linn. Ha/ton, Chesham, 

 the Chi/tern district ; common on hill- 

 sides 



Eubolia palumbaria, SchifF. ; plumbaria, St.C. 

 Chesham, common at Ha/ton ; usually 

 found plentifully upon commons and 

 rough heathland 



bipunctaria, SchifF. Wendover, Chalfont 



St. Peter, Chesham, Ha/ton ; usually 

 in chalk districts, resting upon the 

 ground 



cervinaria, SchifF. Halton, Chesham ; 



among mallow 



mensuraria, SchifF. ; limitata, St.C. 



Abundant everywhere in waysides and 

 rough grass land 



Eupithecia togata, Hb. This large and hand- 

 some ' pug ' moth was discovered, as 

 British, in Black Park, in June, 1845, 

 by Mr. Desvignes, the eminent hymen- 

 opterist, the late Mr. Samuel Stevens 

 and others, of whom but one, Mr. J. 

 W. Douglas, now survives. Some 

 years later the Rev. J. Greene beat out 

 two specimens from a fir in Beech Wood 

 near Halton ; it does not seem to have 

 been seen in the county since, but is 

 found among spruce fir, in the cones 



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