Insects. 3011 



having a proper knowledge of its habits. This has been evidently the case with Chei- 

 matobia borearia, for with the exception of three or four captured by Messrs. B. and 

 N. Cooke, in 1848, and one taken by myself last year, the insect had escaped notice, 

 until the appearance of the last published sheet of Mr. H. Doubleday's valuable ' List,' 

 when the insect was identified : previous to that time, the captured specimens were 

 looked upon as varieties of other species. By the perseverance of Mr. N. Cooke, 

 the habits of the species were detected, and it has turned up in considerable numbers 

 in Delamere Forest, the same locality in which Hy pen odes humidalis occurred. — 

 James Cooper ; Museum, Warrington, November 17, 1850. 



Note on Cheimatobia borearia. — This appears to be a very common insect, at least 

 in the locality where we find it here, a part of Delamere Forest, where there are plenty 

 of birch trees. It is found in abundance during the evening, by searching the birch 

 trees, or fern, &c, in their neighbourhood. At dusk a few females may be seen 

 creeping up the trees, and in about an hour afterwards the moth may be taken in 

 pairs. In the males the wings vary in expanse from 1| inch to \\ inch. The time of 

 its appearance commences in the last week of October : the allied species, C. brumaria, 

 occurs with it, but is not nearly so numerous in the same situation. — Benjamin Cooke ; 

 Warrington, November 12, 1850. 



Capture of Lepidoptera near Meonstoke. — The following are some of my best cap- 

 tures this season, in the neighbourhood of Meonstoke. I was there but a short time ; 

 but saw enough to convince me that the place would prove, to a collector who had the 

 time to search it thoroughly, peculiarly rich in Lepidoptera. I might have included 

 many other good insects in my list. 



Lithosia griseola. August 5, fifteen, from the wild clematis. 



Lithosia stramineola. August 7, three. 



Euthemonia Plantaginis. June 19, fir-trees, by beating. 



Platypteryx Hamula. September 23, one poor specimen, beaten from hazel. Is 

 not this very late ? 



Triphana fimbria. August 1 0, Stoke wood ; three specimens from the long grass. 



Pyrausta cingulalis. August 12, three, from Beacon Down. 



Botysflavalis. Beacon Down ; abundant. I did not find it till August 12, when 

 nearly all the specimens were so faded as to be scarce worth capturing. 



Botys pandalis. August 10, in the long grass, in Stoke Wood ; twenty-four spe- 

 cimens. 



Botys hyalinalis. June 25, one, from the same place. 



Geometra papilionaria. August 10, one, beaten from birch, in Stoke Wood. 



Epione advenaria. June 21 to 25, ten, from hazel. 



Ennomos lunaria. June 18, Stoke Wood. 



Tephrosia extersaria. June 21, one, from privet. 



Anaitis plagiaria. August 9 to 27, abundant in clover fields. 



Anticlea derivaria. May 10, one, beaten from hawthorn. 



Anticlea rubidaria. June 17, two, from wild clematis. 



Phibalapteryx tersana. June 17 to 22, ten specimens, from wild clematis. 



Phibalapteryx vitalbaria. June 19 and August 7, seven specimens, from the same. 



Xerene adustaria. August 10, two, from hazel. 



Xerene procellaria. June to August, not uncommon in the hazel copses. 



Bapta taminaria. May 30, Stoke Wood, one specimen only. 



