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Pohjommatus Phlcsas (L.) — Very abundant ; February and March. 



Lyccena Argiohis (L.) — Common j Maroh. 



Vanessa Atalanta (L.) — Very abundant. 

 „ cardui (L.) — Ditto. 



Pa/rarga Egeria (L.) — Of the typical form of this species I did not observe a single 

 specimen, but the var. Meone (Hb.) was excessively abundant dnring the whole 

 time of my stay in AMca, and of this variety I secured a fine series. 



Coenonympha arcanoides (Pierret). — Not uncommon in the hills in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cape Spartel; March and April. 



Sptlothyrus malvarum (111.) — I met with a few examples of the var. australis (Zell.) 

 early in February in the village of Marshen, near Tangier. 



Heteeocera. 

 Sphinges. 



Deilephila Livornica (Esp.) — Several specimens, in fine condition. This insect 

 seemed especially to afiect the flowers of the various kinds of lupin with 

 which the hills in the neighbourhood of Tangier are clothed during the month 

 of March. Is this species usually double -brooded ? I observe many notices 

 of its capture in England last season, most of which are recorded in August. 



Macroglossa stellatarum (L.) — Common. 



BOMBYCES. 



The only example of this family which I obtained was a large insect, apparently 

 of the genus Bombyx, to which I cannot at present assign a cognomen. Should it 

 prove to be a new species, it may form the subject of a further communication to 

 the E. M. M. I met wi^h several colonies of a processionary caterpillar, I presume 

 of the genus Cnethocampa, on the plain of Had-el-Gharbeea, 30 miles S. of Tan- 

 glier, but, unfortunately, I had no opportunity of rearing them to the imago state. 



NOCTU^. 



Agrotis ravida (W.T.) — One specimen ; February. 



,, pronuha (L.) — Common at light, 



„ Puta (Hb.) — One specimen at light; March. 

 Uypena Uvidalis (Hb.) — One specimen; March. 



„ ohsitalis (Uh.) — Several specimens ; March. 



GEOMETR^a:. 



Acidalia incanaria (Hb.) — I met with one specimen of the var, (?) calcearia (Zell.) 

 in April. 



Eupitliecia pumilata (Hb.) — Common j early in April. 



Crambina. 



Botys femigalis (Hb.) — Abundant; March. 



Nemopliila vnctuella (W.V.) Ihyhridalis Hb.]— Abundant.— Trovky Blackmoke, 

 The HoUies, Wandsworth, S.W. 



[Tinkina. 



The following species, collected at Tangier, in March, have been kindly handed to 



me by Mr, Blackmore : — 

 Tinea p>ellionella, L. 



Micropteryximperfectella, Staudinger, Stett, E. Z. 185i>,p. 236, H.— S., N, Schm., f. 

 113. Of this pretty little species I did not previously possess a specimen. 

 Dr. Staudinger met with it in the S, of Spain, in May. 



