REPORTS. 



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Report of the Entomological Section, 1910. 



Owing to the irreparable loss our Society has sustained 

 by the death of the Veteran Entomologist and Special Secre- 

 tary, no full report of the Society's work in this section is 

 possible. 



I have been requested to attempt to supply the deficiency 

 and have consented to do my best, chiefly because I believe 

 Mr. Luff would wish it. I am not aware that Mr. LufF has 

 left notes of any points brought to his notice during the first 

 half of the year, and I, of course, having no official position 

 have received no reports. I am only able therefore to place 

 at the disposal of the Society the slender material provided by 

 my own experience, and confined to the single branch of my 

 own pursuit of Entomology, viz., Lepidoptera. 



The year 1910 has been one of almost continued cold and 

 rain, and the insects observed have been few. This does not 

 necessarily mean that they have been greatly reduced in 

 number, but that in unfavourable weather they are less active 

 and consequently less in evidence. And for the same reason 

 probably the field naturalist has been less energetic and given 

 himself fewer opportunities of observation. 



However, we can add three moths to our local list which 

 are very desirable additions. 



The one of first importance is No/a albula. Its discovery 

 was due to a happy chance. A schoolboy of Marlborough 

 College, spending his summer holidays in Guernsey, brought 

 to me a box of very ordinary moths to name for him, but 

 among the common herd was a good specimen of No la albula. 

 Of this genus Nola some five species only are recorded for 

 England ; though for Europe Standinger's list includes four- 

 teen or fifteen. Albtda is a very rare moth in England, only 

 seven specimens are known to have been taken. It is, how- 

 ever, a widely distributed species, and is found not uncom- 

 monly throughout Northern and Central Europe, extending as 

 far south as Italy and Dalmatia. and eastward to Japan. 

 The German dealers are therefore able to offer it in their 

 lists at the low price of 8d. Our Guernsey specimen was 

 beaten out of the hedge in a lane near Cobo, and alas ! ranks 

 as a 44 foreigner." In the same box was a rather wasted 

 specimen of Pelurga comitata, an insect which has not before 

 been recorded for Guernsey, though taken by Mr. LufF in 

 Alderney in 1873. This is a fairly common moth on waste 

 ground in England. Another interesting capture by the same 

 boy were several specimens of Agrotis vestigia/is^ Kott. 

 ( Valligera lib.) The only previous record of this species in 



