Insects. 8995 
Acronycta Menyanthidis. Thirty on old fir-stumps. 
A. Rumicis. Fine dark and intermediate varieties. 
Miana expolita. I took a hundred specimens one afternoon from 
1 p.M., which is the time they begin to fly. I was astonished when 
I found the head-quarters of this rapidly-flying species; it is difficult 
to walk or stand where it occurs, on the shingle, and I have seen 
nearly a dozen flying round a little tuft of grass, like so many bees, 
when there has been a female concealed in the grass. I took fifty 
males without moving from the foot of a rock: there was no chance of 
running, so J just knelt down, and waited their coming: I only sup- 
pose there was a female, for I never saw one, but the males kept 
coming, and stopped before me, and I had put no sugar there. It 
must have been a female that proved so attractive. When there was 
no sun I smoked them out. . 
Trachea piniperda. March, and on the 20th of May. 
Tzniocampa leucographa. Eight specimens on sallows. 
Dianthecia carpophaga. Larve. 
Hadena contigua and H. glauca. On stones, at rest. 
Stilbia anomala. At rest. 
Schrenkia turfosalis. On the moss, in abundance, about 7 P.M. 
I had to catch six or eight in my net at once, and run off the moss to 
box them, for the midges were so savage, getting into my eyes and 
ears, that I could not get to box any under such punishment, 
without retreating a short distance. 
Rivula sericealis. Common among long grass. 
Ennychia cingulalis. Flying over wild thyme flowers in June. 
E. octomaculalis. Several in open places in woods. 
Botys pandalis. On grassy banks. 
B. terrealis. Four specimens on the rocks. 
Ebulea crocealis. Four specimens on the rocks. 
Eudorea truncicolalis. On rocks. 
E. gracilalis, E. muralis and E. frequentalis. 
Crambus falsellus. Beat out of hollies. 
C. selasellus. On the marshes. 
C. geniculeus and C. inquinatellus. Among dead ivy at Whit- 
barrow, an unusual place for the former insect, which I generally found 
on the coast. 
Homeeosoma eluviella. Three specimens. 
Rodophza marmorella, Twenty among dwarf sloes. 
Sarrothripa Revayana, the variety called undulana. Beat from yew 
in March. 
