LEPIDOPTERA OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK. 50 



Caradrina ambigua, F. Studland ; one (identified by 

 E.R.B.) was taken by Mr. Frederick White- 

 head in Aug. or Sep., 1896. Swanage ; one 

 (identified by E.R.B.) was taken by Mr. Percy 

 M. Bright in 1892, and several at sugar and 

 ragwort flowers by Mr. A. U. Battley in Sep., 

 1901. Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis reports it as 

 not uncommon in 1907 in this locality. 



NOCTUID^. 

 Agrotis, 0. 

 Agrotis obelisca, S.V. Studland; a few (one of which 

 was seen by E.R.B.) were taken at sugar by 

 Mr. Percy H. Tautz in 1907, and in each of 

 the following years. 

 ,, AGATHINA, D. Studland ; one taken at light by 

 Rev. C. R. Digby in 1890. Not new to the 

 Purbeck list, but only previously recorded 

 from there as occurring on Wareham Heath 

 by Mr. C. W. Dale in his Lepidoptera of 

 Dorsetshire. 



NOCTUA, L. 

 NocTUA umbrosa, H. Studland ; about a dozen were taken 

 at sugar by Mr. P. H. Tautz during Aug., 

 1909, and a few in each of the two preceding 

 years. 

 ,, baia, S.V. Corfe ; occasionally taken by E.R.B. 

 It should have been included in the earlier 

 supplement to the Purbeck list, as one, now in 

 his series, was bred from Corfe by E.R.B. in 

 1886, and another was taken there by him in 

 1892. Others were taken by him in 1902. 



HADENID.E. 



Eremobia, Ss. 

 Eremobia ochroleuca, S. V. Worth ; one boxed off a 

 scabious flower by E.R.B. on Sep. 3, 1889. 



