2368 Insects. 



examples of a beautiful little gem, the Ennychia octomaculana, which rejoices in the 

 hottest beams of the summer sun. Margaritia sticticalis occurs with us, though 

 sparingly. 



Tortricidce. Of this tribe I may record Tortrix Galiana, plentiful on the moors ; 

 Philedone Gerningiana, beaten occasionally from oaks ; Spilonota aquana, appearing 

 in gardens in June and July ; Heusimene fimbriana, of which a single specimen was 

 taken on the wing, in the afternoon, in April last ; Anchylopera Lyellana and Teras 

 emargana. 



Yponomeutidce. Anacampsis longicornis — a northern insect — is common on the 

 moors in May ; A. affinis and A. diffinis in gardens in June. Individual specimens 

 of Argyromiges Clerckella, A. Sircomella and A. spinolella, have been taken here, — 

 the first and third among oaks, the second at rest on the bole of a beech. 



Tineidce. A single specimen of Eudorea murana — taken on stone walls in Scot- 

 land — has occurred here. Lampronia concinella was discovered, in June, on a 

 nettle. 



AlucitidcB. Of the Plumes we have taken, Pterophorus leucodactylus is most 

 worthy of record.— Peter Inchbald ; Storthes Hall, Huddersfield, December, 1848. 



Capture of Lepidoptera at Exmouth. — Colias Edusa appeared this year in some 

 plenty, but not nearly so abundantly as last year, and fully a month later. The first 

 specimen taken this year was a pale variety of the female (Helice, Haw), on August 

 27th, between which and October 20th about fifty specimens were taken, including 

 another Helice which I took September 17th; last year about 150 specimens were 

 taken here, including two specimens of Helice. Perhaps it may be worth noticing 

 that the proportion of females to males this year was much larger than last year — that 

 in the former case being nearly as two females to seven males, in the latter as one fe- 

 male to six males. 



The captures at sugar were — with a very few exceptions — made in a small planta- 

 tion under the cliff shore to the beach. They are as follows : — 



Agrotis puta. Twenty-five, at sugar, from August 11 to September 7. 



Cerigo cytherea. One, at sugar, August 16. 



Cosmia affinis. Five, at sugar, August 11 to 18. 



Lytcea umbrosa. Three, at sugar, August 16 to 19. 



Agrotis tritici. Four, on ragwort flowers and long grass on Dawlish Warren, 

 August 28 to September 18. 



Agrotis cursoria. Four, on ragwort flowers and long grass on Dawlish Warren, 

 August 28 to September 18. 



Agrotis valligera. Seven, on ragwort flowers and long grass on Dawlish Warren, 

 August 28 to September 18. 



Agrotis lunigera. One, at sugar, August 29. 



Catocala nupta. Three, at sugar, August 29 to September 5. 



Graphiphora C-nigrum. Two, at sugar, August 28. 



Caradrina hebraica. One, in long grass on Dawlish Warren, September 20. 



Calocampa vetusta. Four, at sugar, September 25 to 28. 



Agrotis pascuea. One, at sugar, about September 25 : from not knowing the name 

 at the time I had omitted to register this properly. 



Xanthia citrago. One, at sugar, October 4. 



Xylina semibrunnea. One, at sugar, October 6. 



Xylina rhizolitha. One, at sugar, October 6 ; one, at ivy, October 24. 



