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the capacity to rear half a million moths every six weeks, raised on artificial diet. 

 They are bred to produce a virus which is used as a biological pesticide to control 

 wild populations. 



Corley, M. F. W. — Recent additions to the Lepidoptera of Portugal: Zygaena 

 rhadamanthus guichardi Tremewan, first found in 1985 by K. M. Guichard and 

 described by Tremewan in 1991 (Naumann & Tremewan, Entomologist's Gaz. 42: 

 85-88); it flies in March on a small area of dunes on the west coast of the Algarve. 

 Cucullia calendulae Treits. ( = C. wredowi Costa) were first collected by B. Goater in 

 1989. The remaining 14 species were all first recorded by the exhibitor, with the exception 

 of Cupido lorquinii H.-S., which has been reported in the past, but according to Gomez 

 Bustillo and Arroyo Varela, 1981, Catalogo sistematico de los Lepidopteros ibericos, 

 all Portuguese records are referable to C. osiris Meig. ssp. pseudolorquinii Vty. 

 Although Idaea fractilineata Zell. is recorded for Spain by both Culot and Staudinger 

 & Rebel, it does not appear in Gomez Bustillo & Arroyo Varela, even as a synonym. 



/. fractilineata, Euxoa psimmythiosa Boursin, Agrotis sabulosa Ramb., Mythimna 

 joannisi Boursin & Rungs and Clytie sancta Stdgr were all taken on sand dunes. 

 Afriberina terror ia Bang-Haas has been taken on dunes, but also on rocky coasts; 

 it is probably associated with Juniperus phoenicea L. Bryonicta pineti Stdgr occurs 

 in coastal pine woods. Eupithecia limbata Stdgr, A casis viretata Hiibn. and Nola 

 cicatricalis Treits. are found in the cork oak woods. Euxoa temera Stdgr, Cucullia 

 calendulae Treits., Idaea predotaria Hartig and Eupithecia dodoneata Guen. were 

 all taken in inhabited areas with orchards, gardens and cultivated ground mixed with 

 patches of semi-natural vegetation. 



Edmunds, H. A. — A small but very interesting collection of Heterocera from the 

 lights of a hotel in Drushia, Cyprus, during a ten-day period in October 1993. 

 Provisional determinations made by B. Goater, pending more critical examination 

 in the future. Syntomidae: Dysauxes famula Freyer; Pyralidae: Agriphila tolli Bles. 

 2 males, gen. det. There are several eastern Mediterranean species of the A. geniculea 

 group which must be dissected before a proper identification can be made. 

 Ancylolomia palpella D.&S.; A. tentaculella Hiibn.; Duponchelia fovealis Zell.; 

 Endotricha flammealis D. & S.; Lamoria anella D.&S.; Lasiocampidae: Lasiocampa 

 sp. close to L. trifolii D.& S. but differing in several respects, particularly in underside 

 pattern: nothing in de Freina & Witt, Die Bombyces und Sphinges der Westpalaearktis 

 quite resembles it; Geometridae: three species of Idaea, all of which require critical 

 examination; Scopula imitaria Hiibn., f. syriacaria Culot; two puzzling species of 

 Ennominae of uncertain genera; Dyscia c.f. raunaria Freyer; Aspitates ochrearia Rossi; 

 Thaumetopaeidae: Thaumetopaea solitaria Freyer; Arctiidae: Eilema c.f. morosina 

 H.-S.; E. c.f. musculo Stdgr; Noctuidae: Euxoa temera Hiibn.; Agrotis trux Hiibn.; 

 A. crassa Hiibn.; Xestia xanthographa D.& S.; Mythimna punctosa Treits.; M. scirpi 

 Dup.; two, possibly three, species of Episema, a single specimen resembling E. 

 korsakovi Christ., a male and four females comparable to E. lederi Christ, and another 

 male of perhaps a third species; Leucochlaena sp. resembling an un-named species 

 illustrated in Hacker, Die Noctuidae Griechenlands; Polymixis canescens Dup.; P. 

 serpentina Treits.; Atethmia ambusta D.&S.; Xanthia cypreago Hamps.; 

 Polyphaenis subsericata H.-S.; Luperina dumerilii Dup.; Spodoptera cilium Guen.; 

 Chrysodeixis chalcites Esper; Trichoplusia circumscripta Freyer; Acontia lucida Hufn. 



Elston, H. V. — Two drawers of butterflies taken during a ten-day visit to the 

 Alpes Maritimes in France during the period 12-23. vi. 1993. Fourteen species of 

 fritillary were shown, including Fabriciana niobe L., Issoria lathonia L., Brenthis 

 hecate D.&S., Mellicta athalia Rott., which was abundant, M. deione Gey. and M. 

 parthenoides Kef. The commonest butterfly was probably Aporia crataegi L., 

 especially at higher altitudes. 



