A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



TRIFIN.* (continued) 



locality for it is Button Park, where 

 it occurs regularly but locally and 

 not abundantly. It is also recorded 

 from Rugby once (Rugby list, 1874) 

 Mamestra dentina, Esp. Common every- 

 where 



reticulata,Vill. (saponariae,Bkh.) Rare. 



I have records from Whitchurch 

 (J. H. Bloom) ; Wolford (W. C. E. 

 Wheeler) ; Overslade (Rugby list = 

 J. M. Furness, 1892) 



serena, F. Not common ; occurs oc- 



casionally in Sutton Park, and I also 

 have records from Wolford (W. C. E. 

 Wheeler) ; Rugby Brandon Woods, 

 etc. (Rugby lists) ; A-therstone (C. 

 Baker) ; Whitchurch (on Worcester 

 side of parish, L. C. Keighley-Peach) 

 Dianthcecia capsincola (S.V.), Hb. Com- 

 mon. Marston Green (G.W.Wynn); 

 Small Heath (J.T. Fountain); Knowle 

 (Blatch Coll.); Rugby (Rugby lists 

 and N. V. Sidgwick) ; Edgbaston 

 (Dr. Jordan) 



cucubali (S.V.), Fuessl. Not uncom- 



mon. Knowle (R. C. Bradley) ; 

 Birmingham (Blatch Coll.); Rugby = 

 Overslade, etc. (Rugby lists); Ather- 

 stone (C. Baker) 



Bombycia viminalis, F. Not uncommon. 

 Knowle (R. C. Bradley, etc.); Rugby 

 (N. V. Sidgwick, and Rugby lists) ; 

 Atherstone (C. Baker) ; Wolford 

 (W. C. E. Wheeler) 



Miana literosa, Haw. Knowle (R. C. 

 Bradley); Hampton-in-Arden (G.W. 

 Wynn); Small Heath(Vf .G. Blatch); 

 Atherstone (C. Baker) 



strigilis, Cl. Very common through- 



out the district. In the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Birmingham the 

 usual form is var. aethiops, Haw. 

 Amongst many specimens I took or 

 saw on 'sugar' in Handsworth (a Staf- 

 fordshire suburb) I only took one 

 specimen with any distinct white 

 markings, and I believe that is the 

 more general experience around 

 Birmingham. I have records of the 

 species from all parts of the county, 

 but do not know what form prevails 

 right away from Birmingham, though 

 at Knowle the black one is still the 

 commoner one. 



fasciuncula, Haw. Common ; occurs 



in every list, and I believe is nearly 

 always found with the preceding but 

 less commonly 



bicoloria, Vill. Tfardley, Sutton, Hamp- 



TRIFIN.S (continued) 



ton-in-Arden (very common in 1900 



in the last locality, G. W. Wynn) ; 



Rugby (Rugby lists) 

 Bryophila perla, F. Common throughout 



the county in suitable spots, but of 



course local 

 Diloba cceruleocephala, L. Throughout 



the county ; is recorded in every list 

 Apamea testacea, Hb. Common everywhere 

 Celaena matura, Hufn. (cytherea, F.). Well 



distributed, not common. Knowle 



(W. G. Blatch, R. C. Bradley); 



Hampton-in-Arden (a few, 1900, 



G. W. Wynn) ; Rugby = Overslade, 



etc. (Rugby lists); Atherstone (C. 



Baker); Wolford (W. C. E. Wheeler); 



Whitchurch (on Worcestershire side, 



L. C. Keighley-Peach) 

 Hadena adusta, Esp. Not common and 



very local. Sutton Park (G. W. 



Wynn) ; Rugby = Overslade, etc. 



(Rugby lists) ; Knowle (W. Kiss) ; 



Atherstone (C. Baker) 



ochroleuca, Esp. One specimen is in 



the Blatch collection which has been 

 recorded as having occurred near 

 Small Heath, and according to the 

 Blatch MS. Catalogue of the collec- 

 tion was taken by Mr. James Madi- 

 son ; no other specimen has been 

 taken anywhere near Birmingham 

 to my knowledge 



- furva (S.V.), Hb. Mr. C. Baker in- 

 forms me that he took two speci- 

 mens at Athsrstone, which were as- 

 signed to this species by Mr. R. 

 Newstead of Chester. It certainly 

 seems very rare throughout the mid- 

 lands and needs confirmation 



sordida, Bkh. (anceps, Hb.) Not 



common. Coventry ; Sutton (G. W. 

 Wynn) ; Hampton-in-Arden (one in 

 1 900, G. W. Wynn) ; Knowle (R. C. 

 Bradley, and Blatch Coll.); Small 

 Heath (H. Taylor); Rugby = Over- 

 slade, etc. (Rugby lists) 



monoglypha, Hufn. Extremely com- 



mon everywhere. Var. infuscata, 

 Buch. White. Very rare, only one 

 recorded, Solihull (A. H. Martineau) 



lithoxylea, F. Common ; occurs in 



every list. Mr. G. W. Wynn found 

 it very common at ' sugar ' at Hamp- 

 ton-in-Arden in 1900 



sublustris, Esp. Much less common. 



Hampton-in-Arden (a few, 1900, 

 (G. W. Wynn) ; Knowle (Blatch 

 Coll.) ; Rugby = Overslade, etc. 

 (Rugby lists) 



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