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for the complete return journey, 1st class, for one person, amount 

 to exactly ^3 ; of course it would be something less for two or 

 more people, as the cost of carriage, &c, would be shared ; a 

 considerable saving could also be effected by travelling 2nd 

 class. It would be well to advise the landlord of the hotel at 

 Tancarville, so that he could reserve rooms, as the accommoda- 

 tion is rather limited, but no doubt beds could be obtained 

 outside. For the return journey, trains leave St. Romain station 

 at 4.5 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., the latter allowing plenty of time to 

 catch the steamer, which starts at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Wednes- 

 days, and Fridays. The train arrives at Waterloo by 10 a.m. 

 The entomologist ought to be able, by leaving London at 9.45 on 

 a Friday night, to spend from 11 a.m. on Saturday to 6 p.m. on 

 Monday at Tancarville, and arrive back in London by 10 a.m on 

 Tuesday. 



List of Lepidoptera taken at Tancarville, 

 June 14th to 16th, 1890. 



Rhopalocera. — Pieris brassica and P. rapce. Euchloe cardamines. 

 Gonopteryx rhamni, a few small larvae on buckthorn. Argynnis selene. 

 Vanessa urticcB. V. cardui, one very worn female ; deposited seven eggs in 

 a chain. Melanaryia galatea, larva. Pararge egeria and P. megeera. Epi- 

 nephele ianira. Thecla rubi. Lycana icarus. SyrichtJms malvce. Nisoniades 

 tayes. Hesperia sylvanus. 



Heterocera. 



Bombyces. — Zyyana filipendula, one larva about half-grown. Hy- 

 lophila prasinana, two specimens : these, from their splendid condition, 

 appeared to have just emerged from pupae ; one example has very 

 distinct streak and blotches of red on the costa and inner margin of 

 fore wing. Calliyenia miniata, a female ; deposited a number of eggs. 

 Lithosia sororcula {= aureola). Euchelia jacobcece. Arctia villica. Spi- 

 losoma lubricipeda and S. menthastri. Hepialus hectus. Porihesia similis 

 (= auriflua). Leucoma salicis. Dasychira pudibunda. Orgyia antiqua, larva. 

 Bombyx neustria, larva, common. B. quercus, larva. Odonestis potatoria, 

 larva. Dicranura vinula, one very small larva. Pygcera pigra (= reclusa), 

 larvae, also very small. 



Nocture. — Thyatira batis, at sugar. Moma orion, sitting among 

 herbage. Acronycta psi, at sugar. A. rumicis. Gortyna ochracea, larvae 

 in stems of hemp agrimony. Xylophasia rurea, at sugar. Pachetra 

 leucophcea, one very fresh example taken at exuding sap of birch tree ; on 

 each side of this birch were other trees which had been sugared. Apamea 

 basilinea, at sugar. Miana strigilis, at sugar. Busina tenebrosa, at sugar. 

 Agrotis exclamationis, at sugar. Noctua brunnea and N. /estiva, at sugar. 

 Triphcena pronuba, at sugar. Tethea retusa, larva, on willow. Euplexia 

 lucipara, at sugar. Aplecta prasina (— herbida) and A. nebulosa, at sugar. 

 Hadena thalassina and H. contigua, at sugar. Cucullia verbasci, larvae 

 common on Verbascum and Scrophularia ; many very small, a few nearly 

 full grown. Chariclea umbra, at sugar. Erastria venustida, beaten out of 

 undergrowth in the wood above Castle. E.fasciana (= fuscula), disturbed 



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