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the noisy Hygrobia hermanni, Acilius sulcatus, lido* hares punt nuns. Hyphydrus 

 ovatus and Hydroporus erythrocephalus; Hemiptera Corixa punctata; Diptera 

 Ptychoptera (probably minutd) and Tipula (probably a Tipulinae sp.). The Diptera 

 larvae were recorded from a marshy area with abundant sphagnum. 



Other orders seen during the meeting included: Hemiptera Palomena prasina 

 (L.), Dolyeoris baccarum (L.) and Elasmostethus interstinctus (L.): Diptera 

 Myathropa florea (L.), Melanostoma scalare (Fab.). Cerodontha ireos (Gour.) and 

 Phytomyza ilicis Curt.; Colcoptera — Cylindrinotus laevioctostriatm (Goeze), Crypto- 

 phagus lycoperdi (Scop.) (in an unidentified species of earth-ball fungus). 

 Glischrochilus quadriguttatus (Fab.) and Epuraea unicolor (Olivier) (both in a rotten 

 beef-steak fungus Fistulina hepatica on oak) and Cicones variegatus (Hellwig) notable 

 A (in a trunk of a standing de-barked tree long dead); Hymenoptera Fenusa dohrnii 

 (Tischbein), Eriocampa ovata (L.). 



The meeting closed around 16.00-h. A total of 49 species of Lepidoptera (47 

 micros and 2 macros), 3 Hemiptera, 6 Diptera, 6 Coleoptera and 3 Hymenoptera 

 were recorded. A full species list has been sent to our archivist and to those managing 

 this woodland, to whom I extend my thanks for permission to hold this meeting. 



Warburg Nature Reserve, Bix Bottom, Oxfordshire, 9 May 1998 



Leader: Ian Sims. — This field meeting was planned as a repeat of the meeting held 

 here at the same time in 1997. Once again, the woods around Nettlebed Common 

 and Stoke Row were visited in the afternoon to look for the rare coleophorid 

 Coleophora antennariella H.-S. At this time of year it should be looked for in flight 

 around hairy wood-rush {Luzida pilosa). Just like last year, none were seen. 



The meeting commenced in the car park of the Warburg Reserve. For a 

 description of the habitat see British Journal of Entomology and Natural History, 11. 

 52-54. Around 10 members met the leader and we set off to walk a circuit of the 

 reserve, recording as we went. Owing to the weather, which was cool and breezy with 

 dull spells and brief periods of sun, day-flying Lepidoptera were scarce. Mam 

 aculeate Hymenoptera and Diptera were recorded by several of our party, but 

 unfortunately only one set of records has been forthcoming for these groups. 



Species recorded on the wing by day included: Lepidoptera — Micropterix calthella 

 (L.), Pancolia leuwenhoekella (L.) (by far the most common species of Lepidoptera 

 seen by day) and Epinotia subocellana (Don.); Diptera — Platycheirus albimanus, 

 Criorhina berberina and Melanostoma mellinum; Coleoptera — Propylea 14-punctata 

 and Pyrochroa serraticornis; Hymenoptera (Aculeata) — Formica fusca and Myrmica 

 ruginodis. 



After dinner in a local public house the meeting reconvened for light trapping. 

 Around six or seven lamps were operated at various locations on the reserve. 

 Unfortunately the cloud cover that had been present for nearly the whole da> 

 evaporated to leave a clear cold night. Consequently, records of nocturnal 

 Macrolepidoptera were well down on last year's meeting and no new records of 

 these were made. One member of our party left me a note to say they had departed, 

 as it was too cold. They had seen a total of six common noctuids and geometrids. 

 None of the others present fared any better, despite several of us staying until dawn. 



The final totals of species seen were 44 Lepidoptera (16 macros and 1" micros). 

 three Diptera, two Hymenoptera and two Coleoptera. These are far fewer than the 

 numbers seen at last year's meeting, on account of the poor weather this time round. 

 Also seen were numbers of common lizards, grass snakes, slow worms, and the 



