capture at Lydd-on-sea of Laspeyresia prunivorana (Ragont) a Tortrix 

 nev/ tc the British list. Canon Edv/ards and So ••lakely recorded many 

 other interesting moths from their stay at Dungeness including the 

 Kent Black Arches, Nola albula HUbn and the very rare Scarce Black 

 Arches Celarna aerugula Hlibno The local Aplasta ononaria (Fuessl) 

 turned up long expected in the area and an unexpected arrival the 

 Womwood CJucullia Absinthii Linn„ This moth occurs rarely in the 

 west of England and may v/ell have been a migrant. 

 Captain Dudley Marsh has discovered what is likely to be a colony 

 of the pyralid moth Heterographis oblitella Zello The record is 

 one in 1955, three in 1956 and one in 1957 all taken at light at 

 Littleboume, This moth almost unlaiovm in Great Britain 7ra.s 

 encountered in numbers at a meeting of the South London 

 Entomological Society last year on a rubbish dump at Benfleet in 

 Essex on May 5tho Mr, GpMo Youden took a strange * micro' in his 

 trap at Dover on July 22ftho This has been identified as 

 Coltophora clypeiferella Hof and is the second specimen taken in 

 Britain, the first having been taken by So Wakely at Cambervirell 

 in 1 953e For the rest I have failed to find records of either the 

 CI if den Nonpareil Catacald fraxini Linn or the Lunar Double Stripe 

 Minucia Lunaris (Schiff) which are threatened with extinction, 

 Calophasia lunula (Hufn) Hydraecia Lucherardi Mabille and Hadena 

 Compta (Schiff) are extending their range, Euphyia luctuata and 

 Colobochyla salicalis (Schiff) are locally common in the 7/oods 

 the latter being confined to one area. There was an unfortunate 

 fire in Lydd station yard which has threatened the Headquarters of 

 the beautiful species of micro lepidopt era Ethmia sexpunctella and 

 E, bipunctella, the larvae of v/hich feed on Vipers bugloss. 

 Evidence is forthcoming however that they survive elsevdiere in 

 the neighbourhood. It is noteworthy that Mr^ Rudland takes an 

 occasional Bipunctella in his trap at YiTillsborough, Finally as 

 an ecological factor rabbits are making a slo\? return but 

 myxomatosis has reappeared at Tenterden, It is expected that 

 some of these interesting moths will be exhibited at the section^ 

 annual exhibition on January 11th, 1958, 



E, Scott, 

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