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were obtained by beating the wild rose bushes at Loughtou at the 

 beginning of August. Varies much in dimensions. I have a specimen 

 from Hunstanton scarcely larger than the little C. argyrana. 



E. pupulann, Fb. — Somewhat local amongst its food-plant, sallow, 

 and, I think, willow as well. I once bred a number from larvae feeding 

 on dwarf sallow in Wicken Fen. 



E. galUculana, Zell. — May be sometimes beaten from oak, or found 

 at rest on the trunk, but by far the best way to obtain it is to gather 

 the old oak-apples in the winter ; the imago comes out, but not always 

 freely, in May. One season I bred over fifty, and another winter's 

 work resulted in a single specimen. 



E. obscunina, St. — Has been taken rarely in Epping Forest, but I 

 have never had the good fortune to meet with it in Essex or elsewhere. 



Olindia ulmana, Hb. — A single worn female specimen beaten from 

 a hedge in early June last at Benfleet or Hadleigh is the only one I 

 have met with. 



Seinasia s/dniaita, Dup. — Decidedly rare. I have taken it flying in 

 the afternoon late in August at Fairmead Bottom, Chingford, and a 

 few worn ones (generally singly) in three or four distant localities. 

 Although there can be little doubt that whitethorn is the food-plant of 

 the larva, it has never been bred to my knowledge. 



S. ianthinana , Dup. — Much more common than the last, flying 

 over whitethorn, in the berries of which the little pink larva may be 

 found in September and October, along with the greyish larva of 

 Laverna atra. It leaves when full-fed, and spins up in bark ; when 

 bred it has a rich purple gloss on the fore wiug8, which soon fades away. 



S. rujillana, Zell. — Common, and generally distributed wherever 

 Duucus caruta, its food-plant, grows. Larvse in abundance in the um- 

 bels, often eight or ten in a single one. 



IS. wceberiana, Schiff. — Not rare at rest on apple and cherry trunks, 

 in the bark of which it feeds in the larval state. Most of my own 

 series were taken on the trunks of wild cherry growing in Wanstead 

 Park. 



Coccyx strobiluna, Hb. — Local, and more often found in the larval 

 stage in the cones of spruce fir, pupating therein in April, when by 

 gathering a lot of the fallen cones a series may be bred. I have only 

 met with it near Warley and near Blackmore. 



C. splendid ulaii a, Gn.- — Fairly common at rest on oak trunks, and 

 may be often bred from oak-apples gathered during the winter. 



C. argyrana. — Generally common in May and June at rest on oak 

 trunks ; not very variable, the only notable specimen is one of a dirty 

 white, without any prominent markings, taken in Bushwood, Wanstead 

 (May 7th, 1892). May often be bred freely from oak-apples gathered 

 in the winter months. 



0. nigricana, H. S. — Kara and very local. I took it for the first 

 time in Essex, I believe, on Jubilee-day, 1887, by beating tlie boughs 

 of a fir tree near Brentwood, taking about twenty on that occasion. I 

 took it again (two only) in 1892 ; have not worked for it since. 



C. hyrciniana, D. L. — Very common and variable amongst spruce 

 fir everywhere. 



Hemimene fimhriana, Haw. — Not common, but widely distributed 

 amongst oaks in April. I have bred a very few from oak -apple" 



