A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



BOARMIIDAE {continued) 



Eurymene dolobraria, Linn. Exeter district ; Cam 



Wood; Bkkleigh Vale; Topsham ; Honlton ; 



Tiverton ; Dartmoor ; Instow ; Lynmouti ; 



Morthae. Scarce in woods 

 Odontoptera bidentaria, Linn. Gen. dist. in 



woods 

 Ennomos alniaria, Linn., tiliaria, St. M. Exeter 



district ; Exminster ; Plymouth ; Dartmoor ; 



Tiverton. Infrequent 



— fiiscantaria, Haw. Exeter; Starcross ; Ply- 



mouth ; Teignmouth ; Paignton ; Torquay ; Sid- 

 mouth ; Barnstaple. Among oak 



— erosaria, SchifF. Exeter ; Plymouth ; Dartmouth ; 



Torquay; Tiverton; Barnstaple; Shaugh, and 

 Haldon. Very common 



— ungularia, SchifF. Gen. dist. in wooded 



districts 



Crocallis elinguaria, Linn. Woods and hedge- 

 banks generally 



*Himera pennaria, Linn. Exeter; Cann Wood; 

 Plymouth; Bickleigh Vale; Tothill ; Torquay; 

 Sidmouth; Barnstaple ; S. Devon 



§Selenla illustraria, Hb. Exeter ; Compion ; Saltram ; 

 Bickleigh ; Avonstvick ; Dartmouth ; Plymouth ; 

 Barnstaple; Bideford 



— lunaria, Schiff. Exeter district ; Compton ; 



Saltram ; Bickleigh ; Honiton ; Tiverton ; 

 Barnstaple ; Instow 

 • — illunaria, Hb. About hawthorn hedges 

 §Pericallia syringaria, Linn. Widely dist. 

 Epione advenaria, Hb. Haldon. Among whortle- 

 berry 



— apiciaria, SchifF. Gen. dist. in damp lanes and 



marshes 



*Metrocampa margaritata, Linn. In woods 

 EUopia fasciaria, Linn. In all fir woods 



§Biston hirtarius, Linn. Exeter; Topsham; Barn- 

 staple 



— prodromarms, Schift., stratarius, St. C. Ply- 



mouth ; Stoke ; Exeter ; Honiton ; Sidmouth ; 

 Barnstaple. Widely dist. 

 • — betularius, Linn. In all woods and among 

 trees 



Phigalia pilosaria, SchiiF. Gen. dist. 



Nyssia hispidaria, SchifF. Mr. Studd has taken 

 several males by means of his illuminated 

 moth-traps at Oxton ; Exeter. Otherwise 

 this moth — which sits on oak trunks by day, 

 and the female of which is apterous — does 

 not seem to have been noticed here 



Gnophos obscurata, SchifF. Gen. dist. on both 

 north and south coasts, also found on heaths 

 inland 



Cleora lichenaria, Schiff. Widely dist., frequent- 

 ing lichen-covered tree trunks, walls, and 

 rocks 



— glabraria, Hb. Plymouth district; Avonswick ; 



Exeter district / Egg Buckland ; Ashburton ; 

 Honiton ; Clovelly ; Lynton. Local, and 

 rather scarce 



— viduaria, Schiff. Recorded by Mr. Parfitt ; but 



this is doubtless erroneous, referring perhaps 

 to dark varieties of the last species 

 Tephrosia consonaria, Hiib. Bickleigh and Cann 

 Woods 



— biundularia, Esp., and its probable variety — 



crepuscularia, Schiff. Both widely dist. 



BOARMIIDAE {continued) 



Tephrosia extersaria, Hiib., luridata, St. C. Ivy- 

 bridge ; Cann Quarry and Woods ; Maristozv ; 

 Dartmoor; Tiverton. Local 



§ — punctularia, Schiff. Plymouth ; Bickleigh Vale ; 

 Dartmoor ; Botingdon Wood 



tBoarnica roboraria, Schiff. Mr. Parfitt records its 

 capture in Cann Woods 



— cinctaria, Schiff. Also recorded by Mr. Parfitt, 



who says that it was taken by Mr. D'Orville, 

 but gives no locality 



— abietaria, Schiff. High Bickington ; Egg, Buck- 



land; Oxton; Exeter; Bickleigh Vale. The 

 Rev. J. Hellins reported the rearing of a 

 specimen from a larva found on whortle- 

 berry 

 •* — repandata, Linn. The very handsome banded 

 variety called conversuria is frequently taken 

 in the north of this county 

 *Boarmia rhomboidaria, Schiff., gemmaria, St. C. 

 In gardens as well as in woods 



Hemerophila abruptaria. Thumb. Exeter; Ply- 

 mouth ; Seaton ; Sidmouth. Often found in 

 gardens 



Hibernia aurantiaria, Hb. Exeter; Bickleigh Vale; 

 Cann Wood ; Shaugh ; Stoke Wood ; Barn- 

 staple. Scarce 



— defoliaria, Linn. Gen. dist. Very variable 

 ** — progemmaria, Hb. 



— leucophaearia, Schiff. Gen. dist. in oak woods 

 * — rupicapraria, Schiff. In hedges and orchards 



Anisopteryx aescularia, Schiff. Gen. dist. 

 'Abraxas grossulariata, Linn. Gen. dist. and in 



Lundy Island 

 § — ulmata. Fab. Barnstaple and Lynmouth. Has 

 also been taken nr. Exeter, at light 

 Ligdia adustata, Schiff. Gen. dist. in woods and 

 hedges where the spindle tree is found 

 *Lomaspilis marginata, Linn. Among sallow 



GEOMETRIDAE 



Pseudoterpna cytisaria, Schiff., pruinata, St. C. ' 



Gen. dist. among furze and broom 

 Geometra papilionaria, Linn. Dist. all over the 



county among alder and birch, yet scarce 

 lodis vernaria, Linn. Mr. Parfitt records it in 



Stoke Wood 

 * — lactearia, Linn. In woods 

 Nemoria viridata, Linn. Woodbury. Very local 

 Phorodesma bajularia, Schiff. Stoke Woods, and 



elsewhere in woods in the Exeter district 

 *Hemithea thymiaria, Linn. In woods and hedges 



ACIDALIIDAE 



Ephyra porata, Linn. Starcross; Woodbury; Topsham; 

 Dartmouth ; Honiton ; liverton ; Barnstaple ; 

 Hartford ; Instow. Among oak bushes 



— punctaria, Linn. Stoke Wood, nr. Exeter; Cann 



Wood ; Bickleigh ; Plymbridge ; Topsham ; 

 Dartmoor ; Sidmouth 



— trilinearia, Bkh. Bickleigh; Stoke Woods; Dart- 



mouth ; Sidmouth ; Barnstaple. Among beech 



— omicronaria, Schiff., annulata, St. C. Exeter 



district ; Honiton ; Teignmouth ; Sidmouth. 

 Among maple 



— orbicularia, Hb. Recorded at Tiverton by Mr. 



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