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Goater, B. — (a) A series of the reputedly extremely rare noctuid Victrix agertjoi 

 Fernandez from Prov. Valladolid, Spain. Over 200 males (Plate 1 , Fig. 10) were seen 

 at light and resting on grass stems at night in three localities in which the stony ground 

 was covered with a dense growth of lichens; they were very variable. By searching 

 with a lantern, two brachypterous females (Plate I, Fig. 1 1) were discovered on grass 

 stems, attended by one or more males. It is believed that the female was previously 

 unknown. 



(b) A selection of moths taken during June and July 1993 in the southern half of 

 Sweden and in Denmark, including the following: Zygaenidae.: Zygaena osterodensis 

 Reiss, including an orange specimen, Z. viciae D.&S., Z. exulans Hochen. and 

 Z. filipendulae L. from Sweden and Z. minos D.&S. from Denmark; Sesiidae: 

 Pennisetia hylaeformis Lasp. bred from raspberry from several localities in both 

 countries; Tortricidae, including Cochylimorpha hilarana H.-S., Olethreutes 

 bipunctana F., O. metallicana Hiibn., O. olivana Treits., Apotomis infida Hein.; 

 Pyralidae, including Crambus alienellus Germ. & Kaul., which was abundant on all 

 the bogs, Agriphila biarmica Tengst. and Pediasia truncatella Zett., both very local 

 in boggy areas, Catoptria maculalis Zett. and Udea hamalis Thunb. from spruce forest, 

 U. decrepitalis D.&S. from ferny stream-banks and Eudonia aequalis Kyrki & 

 Svensson, which was described in 1985 and of which very few specimens are as yet 

 known; Lasiocampidae: Cosmotriche lunigera Esp. from spruce forest; Sphingidae: 

 Hyles gallii Rott. taken at light in the middle of a dense spruce thicket; Geometridae 

 including Chloroclysta infuscata Tengst. and C. latefasciata Stdgr, Thera serraha 

 Lien. & Zell., Rheumaptera subhastata Nolck. and R. hastata L., Perizoma taeniatum 

 Steph., Eupithecia analoga Djakanov and E. abietaria Goeze for comparison, 

 Arichanna melanaria L. which was abundant in July in boggy woodland where Ledum 

 palustre L. grew, and Parietaria vittaha Thunb.; Noctuidae, including very dark 

 Agrotis vestigialis Hufn., Epipsilia grisescens F. ssp. septentrionalis Fibiger, Spaelotis 

 clandestina Harris, Cucullia argentea Hufn., several of which were found at rest on 

 shoots of Artemisia campestris L. in Denmark, Eublemma minutata F., also from 

 Denmark, and Sympistis funebris Hiibn. and S. heliophila Payk., which fly by day 

 like Anarta spp. in the Swedish mountains when the sun shines. 



(c) Rare Noctuidae from Spain taken in 1993: Euxoa psimmythiosa Boursin (Huelva. 

 May), Agrotis chretieni Dumont (Segovia, May), Agrotis turatii Standf. ssp. 

 eumetabola de Lajonquiere (Teruel, May), Xestia trifida F. R. (Valladolid, September). 

 Cucullia reisseri Boursin, ex larvis on Verbascum (Segovia, em. June), Criophasia 

 albolineata Blachier (Almeria, May), Eremochlaena orana Lucas (Alicante & Almeria. 

 October), Agrochola pistacinoides d'Aubuisson (Burgos, September), Aiei/imio 

 algirica Culot (Burgos, September), Cirrhia aurago D.& S., a series showing extreme 

 variation (Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos, September), Apamea sicula Turati 

 (Zaragoza), with ,4. monoglypha Hufn. for comparison, and all five Spanish species 

 of Pseudohadena—P. commoda Stdgr. (Huesca), P. mariana de Lajonquiere 

 (Almeria), P. roseonitens Oberth. (Almeria), P. halimi Mill. (Huesca) and P. 

 chenopodiphaga Ramb. (Huesca). 



Hall, N.— (a) Pyralidae from Spain: Actenia vulpecalis Rag., two specimens from 

 Puerto de la Mora, Granada, 12-13.vii.1991, apparently new to Europe: Scirpophaga 

 praelata Scop., two specimens from the Ebro Delta, Tarragona, 7-8.ix.1992. The 

 exhibitor was grateful to Mr Michael Shaffer for the identifications. 



(b) Moths from France and Spain, as follows: Phyllonorycter comparella Dup.. 

 bred from mines on white, grey and black poplar, July 1988 and July 1993, at Collias. 

 Gard, France, emerging in August of the same year. Esperia oliviella F.. St Laurent - 

 du-Pape, Ardeche, France, July 1993. Paracorsia repandalis D.& S., bred from mullein 



