75 A LIST OF MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



friend Mr, Bernard Piffard, in the Warren, amongst Ononis 

 arvensis, in August, 1867, On the continent, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Paris, the insect is attached to Onoriis spinosa. 

 It is double-brooded, and ought to be sought for in May as 

 well as in August and September. Its habit is to fly up as we 

 trample through, or disturb with our beating-stick, the Rest 

 harrow. To obtain the larva, which is plump, hairy, and 

 very sluggish, our French friends mow off tufts of the food 

 plant and shake them over a sheet of paper. Two other 

 examples have been secured by Mr. F. Standish in July of the 

 present season, 1869. 



Spilodes palealis. Folkestone claims the honour of first 

 yielding this delicately beautiful pearl. Several years ago it 

 was met with rather plentifully in the Warren during June and 

 July, but of late has become rare — indeed seems to have 

 disappeared. The species has also been taken at Heme Bay 

 and other watering-places, and one year a stray specimen 

 actually found its way as far inland as Forest Hill. The 

 larva feeds on the umbels of the wild carrot and Peucedanum 

 in August and September. 



Lemiodes pulveralis. For the addition of this new British 

 genus and species to the Folkestone list of delicacies, we are 

 indebted to the 'Messrs Meek, who have this season (1869), 

 secured three examples in the Warren ; Mr. Edward Meek 

 had a few weeks previously, however, met with a single indi- 

 vidual of the, then, unknown in the Isle of Wight, so that 

 unfortunately our pet locality has not been the first to yield 

 the novelty. Stephens, many years since, gave it as an in- 

 habitant of Great Britain ; but, as he ommitted it from his 

 Museum Catalogue, and it has not since " entered in the 

 lists," the present captures must be regarded in the light of 

 a new discovery. The ordinal position of this Pyralis in our 

 cabinets will be after the genus Scopula. Its time of ap- 

 pearance is August. 



Scoparia ingratella is the last novel " Macro" here to be 

 recorded. This species is abundant in the Warren in June 

 and the beginning of July. It may be known from its 

 close ally 6*. duhitalis (pyralella) by its larger size, some- 

 what broader forewings, and by black markings being faint or 

 altogether absent. It should be killed on the spot of capture, 

 otherwise there will be little left to recognise on reaching 

 our home quarters. 



