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Noctuid in 1897, and I have found the female flying about a cluster 

 of fungi growing on an old stump, at the end of September. 



M. abdominalis. — An abundant species, though more usually 

 bred than taken abroad. I have swept it from reeds at Foxhall, 

 Brandon, and in the Bentley Woods, in Suffolk, in August and 

 July ; both sexes occurred in my garden in August, 1907 ; Mr. 

 Tuck has taken it at Tostock and Benacre Broad, in the same 

 county ; Mr. Butler at Abinger Hammer, in August ; Mr. Piffard at 

 Felden ; Mr. W. Saunders at Reigate ; and Beaumont at Plum- 

 stead and Blackheath. The sexes are, I believe, invariably bred 

 separately ; Mr. Platten bred four males from Chelonia caja at 

 Ipswich, July 24th, 1899 ; Mr. Peachell bred nine females from 

 a larva of the same species at Weymouth, July 27th, 1899 ; Mr. 

 Musham bred twenty females on August 30th, 1901, at Lincoln, 

 from Spilosoma sp. ; Mr. Bankes bred eight females at the 

 beginning of July, 1905, " from among a mixed lot of micro- 

 lepidopterous larva? feeding on oak, collected at Yarmouth, Isle of 

 Wight. Host uncertain (probably Rhodophaa consociella, Hb.) " ; 

 and I have thirty females which emerged from a dead green Pyralid 

 larva feeding on birch ; their larvae emerged from the host June 

 23rd, 1905, and became imagines on the 6th of the following June, 

 from Tonge. Donisthorpe found this species in Kerry, in 1902. 



M. infirmus.—R&ve on the wing; I have only once caught it, 

 by sweeping in an osier carr at Barton Mills, in Suffolk, June 

 18th, 1901, and Mr. Tuck found it at Aldeburgh, September 

 16th, 1899 ; Dr. Capron at Shere, Mr. Piffard at Felden, and 

 Mr. Beaumont at Blackheath and Harting, in Sussex, in August. 

 The sexes are bred separately. Mr. Bankes bred fifteen males 

 from their cocoons, which emerged from a larva of Retinia 

 sylvestrana, Curt., from the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, July 18th, 

 1902 ; and Mr. S. Kemp has given me a huge bundle of their 

 cocoons, together with the emerged imagines, of which I can 

 count about one hundred and five specimens — all females — upon 

 the surface of the bundle, "bred from a larva found on a sandhill, 

 North Bull, Dublin, June, 1902 " (received October 15th, 1902). I 

 took a male on Plantago major* in my garden, August 27th, 1907. 



M. collaris. — Not uncommon, though I have seen no bred 

 specimens. Both sexes at Felden (Piffard) ; four females at 

 Greenings (W. Saunders). I have only taken the latter sex, of 

 which several occurred on the flowers of Foeniadum vtdgare in 

 a lane at Alderton, in Suffolk, September 3rd, 1899 ; several at 

 Gosfield, in Essex, July 24th, 1902 ; one at the roots of Erodium 

 cicutarium, at Brandon, in Suffolk, August 26th, 1906 ; and one 

 at Shalfleet, in the Isle of Wight, June 26th, 1907. 



Zele, Curt. 



(2) 1. Radial cell of lower wing entire . 1. testaceator, Curt. 



(1) 2. Radial cell of lower wing centrally discreted. 



