264 MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BREPHOS : Parthenias, plentiful, at Swynnerton in April, 

 on birch. 



ABROSTOLA : Urticm, not common, on nettles and hop. 

 Triplasia, common, on nettles. 



PLUSIA : C/irysitis, common, at flowers at dusk in July. 

 Festucce, rare, one near Eccleshall (F.W.D.) Iota, V- 

 Aureum, common, at flowers at dusk at Midsummer. 

 Gamma, common, everywhere. Interrogations, 

 rare, taken at Whitmore some years ago (A.S.) 



GONOPTERA : Libatrix, Herald, common, on sallow. 



AMPHIPYRA : Pyramidea, Copper Underwing, not un- 

 common at Swynnerton. Tragopogonis, Mouse, 

 common. 



MANIA : Typica, very common. Maura, Old Lady 

 common, on sallow. 



EUCLIDIA : Mi, Mother Shipton, common at Craddock's 

 Moss. Glyphica, Burnet, rare, railway cutting near 

 Madeley (T.W.D.) 



PHYTOMETRA : ^ffinea, common at Craddock's Moss. 



DELTOIDES. 



HYPENA : ProboscidaUs, common everywhere, on nettle. 

 Crassalis, common, at Swynnerton, on heath. 



HERMINIA : Grisealis, not uncommon, Walton's Wood, 

 Madeley. 



PYRALIDES. 



AGLOSSA : Pingmnalis, general, Madeley (T.W.D.) 

 PYRAUSTA : Punicealis, one at Dovedale in 1874 (T.W.D.) 



Purpuralis, not common, Craddock's Moss, &c. 

 HERBULA -Cespitalis, Weaver Hills (T.W.D.) 

 CATACLYSTA : Lemnalis, common on ponds, on duckweed. 



