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hybernated P. hastiana in copula at Formby. This is mentioned 

 because I believe the spring habits of this extremely abundant 

 species are little understood. Personally I have never found it 

 after hybernation except on this occasion. A nice series of 

 Teras contaminana var. dimidiana was bred from larvce found at 

 Crosley when arranging for our summer field-meeting. Nearly 

 all were extremely dark, though of this form. Dictyopteryx 

 forskaleana has been found in some numbers at Wallasey by 

 Mr. C. B, Williams among sycamore, and I took a specimen at 

 Kirkby last August. When at Crosby last June, I found a 

 number of larvae on iris and ranunculus ; these turned out to be 

 Tortrix costaiia, a large and handsome species. Penthina varie- 

 gana has shown up in odd specimens from various localities, and 

 if worked for would be found commonly. P. dimidiana I have 

 only found at Simonswood occasionally ; in 1907 I bred two or 

 three from larva? beaten from birch the previous autumn. Anti- 

 thesia aceriana, one specimen at Sefton Park in 1907. Sericoris 

 bifasciana, also one specimen from Delamere, July, 1908. Cne- 

 phasia musculana, one from Delamere, May, 1907. Sciaphila 

 pascuana, although not noted previous to 1907, has since occurred 

 at Delamere and Simonswood, not uncommonly. Clepsis rusti- 

 cana was new to my collection when I captured a few specimens 

 at Kirkby Moss in pine or among sweet gale. In a clump of 

 rushes, only about a square yard altogether, on Kirkby Moss, 

 Bactra lanceolana was quite common in August, 1908, and a few 

 rather dark specimens were taken at Hatchmere last July, where 

 it is no doubt common. A specimen of Phoxopteryx lundana 

 came to light at Sefton Park in August 1907, and P. mitter- 

 pacheiimia occurred at Delamere, in May, 1907. The imago 

 was found sitting on birch leaves. 



When looking for C. flavicornis at Simonswood in April, 

 1907, and also at Delamere the same year, I gathered all the 

 distorted catkins from the birches that I could tind ; later these 

 produced a fine series of OraphioUtha ramella type and var. 

 costana in about equal proportions, though perhaps in the Dela- 

 mere series the type slightly outnumbered the variety. A nice 

 series of G. ncevana was bred from holly tips collected near 

 Liverpool in 3 908, and a few G. geminana from Vaccinium found 

 at Delamere ; on the same ground in July this species was 

 abundant, flying freely when disturbed in the daytime. 



Among the pines at Simonswood in 1907 I found a moth 

 that at first seemed familiar, but at the time I could not recog- 

 nize it ; on comparison at home, however, it turned out to be a 

 very dusky form of the male of Batodes angmtiorana ; it was so 

 dark as to suggest the possibility of a black form parallel to the 

 var. fuscana of T. podana. The locality is likely, and a black form 

 is one that might reason-ably be expected to occur, hence I shall 

 look out for it every season if I can get there at the proper 



