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: Artemis, Craddock's Moss (T.W.D.), plentiful 

 in 1866. 



VANESSA : C. Album, Swynnerton, Burnt Woods (A.S.), 

 in I866. Urticce.Polychloros, Madeley (T.W.D.), 

 one pupa in 1873. Antiopa, Eccleshall, Swynnerton, 

 Swithamley, Cannock Chase, 1873. This very rare 

 insect in this country was taken by Mr. Button at 

 Eccleshall, and seen at the other places. lo, 

 Atalanta, common. Cardui, Madeley, &c., rare in 

 this district. 



SATYRUS : Megcera, widely spread, but not common. 

 Janira, Tithonus, abundant. Hyperanthus, Burnt 

 Woods, Madeley, plentiful but local. 



CHORTOBIUS : Davus, Chorlton Moss, &c., abundant on 

 mosses. Pamphilus, everywhere. 



THECLA : Rubi, Maer, Craddock's Moss, &c., local. 

 Quercus, Swynnerton, plentiful. 



POLYOMMATOS : P/ilceas, abundant. 



LYC^NA : Agestis, Dovedale, plentiful (T.W.D.) Alexis, 

 common. Alsus, Dovedale. Argiolus, Maer, Burnt 

 Woods. 



THANAOS : Tages, Leycett, on coal pit lows, &c. 



HESPERIA : Sylvanus, Burnt Woods, plentiful but local. 

 Linea, Madeley, railway banks (T.W.D.) 



NOCTURNI. 



SMERINTHUS : Ocellatus, larvae plentiful on sallows. 

 Populi, pupge at roots of poplars. 



ACHERONTIA : Atropos, Death's Head, one imago in Vicar- 

 age Garden at Madeley (T.W.D.), larvse on potatoes. 



SPHINX : Ligustri, larvae on privet near Stoke (L.H. J.) 



CH^EROCAMPA : Porcellus, rare, one imago (E.E.) Elpenor, 



