INSECTS 



TRIFIDAE {continued) 



Tapinistola fulva, Hb. Exeter; Cann Wood, nr. 

 Plymouth; Teignmouth; Honiton, common; 

 rare at Mortkoe 



— bondii, Knaggs.' This extremely local species 



occurs in the extreme south-eastern corner of 



the county towards Lyme Regis, among Festuca 



arundinacea 

 Calamia lutosa, Hb. Recorded, though without 



locality, by Mr. H. Jenner Fust. Doubtless 



to be found in the county 

 Leucania pudorina, Hb. Recorded at Sidmouti in 



1 89 1 by Mr. W. R. S. Majendie 

 *• — irapura, Hb. 



— pallens, Linn. Scarce at Morthoe 



— straminea, Tr. Recorded in the county by 



Mr. H. Jenner Fust, but without locality. 

 One specimen found nr. Dartmouth, recorded 

 by Mr. G. T. Porritt 



— putrescens, Hb. Torquay and Babbacombe ; Sid- 



mouth ; Teignmouth ; Dartmouth. Discovered 

 at Torquay in 1859 ^Y Mr. R. M. Stewart 

 and Dr. Battersby. Still existing on the 

 cliffs nr. the sea at this and other localities 

 along the coast ; but excepting on a portion 

 of the coast of South Wales, not known else- 

 where in Great Britain 

 § — comma, Linn. Exeter ; Tiverton ; Barnstaple ; 

 Instow ; Honiton ; Torquay ; Bickleigh Vale 



— littoralis. Curt. Dawlish Warren ; Dartmouth 



district ; Instow ; Morthoe. Only found on 



the coast sandhills 

 t — unipuncta, Haw. ; extranea, Gn. Has occurred 



twice at Torquay and once at Morthoe 

 t — vitellina, Hb. Found from Torquay along the 



south coast to Dartmouth ; and here more 



frequently than in any other part of the 



United Kingdom 



— conigera, Fab. Gen. dist. 



t — albipuncta. Fab. Found occasionally along the 

 south coast, from Torquay to Dartmouth ; also 

 once at Exeter 

 •* — lithargyria, Esp.. 



— turca, Linn. Recorded by Parfitt (1878) at 



Alphington ; Kingsbridge and Werrington Park ; 

 Torquay ; apparently not noticed more recently 

 Panolis piniperda, Panz. Exeter; Plymouth; Ply- 

 bridge, S. Devon ; also at Morthoe in 1 90 1 

 *Taeniocampa gothica, Linn. At sallow bloom in 



the spring 

 * — miniosa. Fab. To be found at the same attrac- 

 tive bait, and nr. Plymouth abundant 

 ** — cruda, Tr. 

 ** — stabilis. View. 



— populeti, Tr. Woodside, Plymouth ; Trews Weir, 



Exeter; scarce 



— instabilis, Esp. Stoke Wood ; Exeter ; Plymouth; 



Barnstaple ; Morthoe. Exceedingly variable 



— munda, Esp. I Gen. dist. at sallow bloom in 



— gracilis. Fab. j the spring 



tPachnobia leucographa, Hb. Taken at Exeter and 

 Barnstaple at sallows 



— rubricosa. Fab. Plymouth Hntnct; Bickleigh Vale ; 



Dartmouth ; Paignton ; Torquay ; Sidmouth ; 

 Exeter; Barnstaple and Lynton. At sallows 



• I have collected the species in abundance near hymi Regis, 

 but I think the locality is in Dorset, not Devon, though it is not 

 far from the border of Devon. — H.G. 



TRIFIDAE {continued) 



Rusina tenebrosa, Hb. Gen. dist. ; scarce in the 



northern parts 

 Mania maura, Linn. Widely dist. in moist places 

 *Naenia typica, Linn. 

 Amphypyra pyramidea, Linn. Gen. dist. in woods ; 



abundant in some years 

 ** — tragopogonis, Linn. 



Toxocampa pastinum, Tr. Torquay ; Topsham ; 



Membury ; Kingsbridge Road, Teignmouth ; 



llfracombe ; Barnstaple; Martinhoe. Very 



local 



— craccae. Fab. Discovered on the north coast 



of Devon in July, 1861, by the late Rev. J. 

 Hirton, and taken in the Lynton and Lynmouth 

 districts in many subsequent seasons up to the 

 present time. Not known to occur in any 

 other part of the United Kingdom. Its 

 larva feeds on Vicia sylvatica 

 §Hydrilla arcuosa. Haw. Exeter; Bickleigh Vale; 



Lympston ; Torquay ; Sidmouth ; Morthoe 

 tLaphygma exigua, Hb. On the south coast from 

 Torquay to Dartmouth rather more frequently 

 than anywhere else in the United Kingdom ; 

 also taken at Lynmouth and Bideford 



Stilbia anomala. Haw. Stoke, nr. Exeter ; Bud- 

 leigh Salterton ; Honiton ; Bickleigh Vale ; 

 Plymbridge ; Dartmoor ; Teignmouth ; Dart- 

 mouth; Torquay ; Sidmouth; Wembury ; Haldon; 

 Morthoe. Widely dist. and frequent on 

 heaths 



Caradrina morpheus, Tr. Gen. dist. 



— ambigua. Fab. This species furnishes a most 



interesting history of probable immigration, 

 but certain recent extension of the range of a 

 species. In the year 1 879 it was first noticed 

 as an inhabitant of the United Kingdom. 

 This was in Sussex ; in a very few years it 

 had spread into Kent and the Isle of Wight, 

 then to the Isle of Purbeck, and in 1896-7 

 it had reached Paignton and Torquay ; here it 

 increased and multiplied so as to become a 

 comparatively common species, and by 1900 

 had reached Dartmouth and almost the whole 

 south coast of Devon, and had also become 

 so common that hundreds might be seen at 

 sugar on a favourable night ; yet it does not 

 seem to have found its way inland anywhere 



— alsines, Bork. Exeter ; Lynton ; Instow. Still 



scarce though recorded from Devon by J. E. 

 Stephens (1828) 

 * Caradrina blanda, Tr.; taraxaci, St. C. 

 •* — cubicularis, Bkh. Sometimes very destructive, 

 the larvae feeding in multitudes on grain in 

 the ricks of wheat 

 •Grammesia trilinea, Bkh. 

 Dyschorysta ypsilon, Bkh. Common in woods nr. 

 Exeter ; also found at Plymouth, but generally 

 rare in the county 

 Dicycla 00, Linn. Taken at Exeter, as a larva, in 

 1882 by the Rev. J. Hellins 

 *Calymnia trapezina, Linn. In woods in the 

 more sheltered districts 



— pyralina, Schiff. Alphington ; Modbury ; Honi- 



ton ; Sidmouth ; Lynton. Scarce 



§^- difiinis, Linn. Exeter; Sidmouth; and Mr. 



Parfitt says along the south coast ; about 

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