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Coremia Propugnata. — At rest on windows and by mothing. Woods 

 and gardens. May. Rare. New Forest,, also at West Wickham. 



C. Ferrtjgata. — Beaten ont by day and by mothing in the evening. May 

 to August. West Wickham, near Yarmouth, and in the New Forest. 



Camptogramma Bilineata. — By beating hedges, weedy banks, &c. Flies 

 by night about rank herbage, lanes, fields, and woods ; also at light. June 

 to August. 



Scotosia Dubitata. — At light, and flying about Clematis in the evening. 

 August and September. Rare. Wyndcliff, Chepstow, and Camden Town, 

 London. 



S. Certata. — Common where its food-plants, Berberis vulgaris or Holly 

 Barberry grow. By mothing (only on warm evenings), and on gas lamps. 

 Near Tufnell Park, and other suburbs of North London ; one of the best lo- 

 calities is now built over. The pale yellow ova may be found on the upper 

 side of the leaves of the food-plant at the beginning of June. The larvae are 

 very easy to rear, Berberis vulgaris is their favourite food-plant ; they become 

 smaller moths when fed on the holly barberry. May. 



Cidaria Psittacata. — Larvae not common on oak. New Forest. August. 



C. Corylata. — By beating bushes in woods, in May and June. West 

 Wickham, and Bishop's Wood, Hampstead. 



C Rtjssata and Immanata. — To be disturbed from bushes by day, and 

 in the autumn in the New Forest taken at sugar ; also at rest on palings. 

 May, June, August, and September. New Forest and (C. russata) Bishop's 

 Wood, Tufnell Park, West Wickham, also near Highgate. The autumnal 

 varieties of C. russata taken at Lyndhurst (wrongly named by me in the 

 " Entomologist " C. immanata), are very peculiar. Not blotched with the 

 flaming colours of the Scotch specimens, but marked with well-defined narrow 

 bands, and lines of blue grey, hoary grey, dull red and black. The form of 

 the boundary lines (as named in "Stainton's Manual" " Newman's British 

 Moths/' is as in ordinary varieties, but the general appearance is more " sat- 

 iny " and less powdery. There is one variety more nearly approaching the 

 ordinary forms wherein the centre of the wing is filled up with the hoary 

 colour, the deeper tints only appearing as the commencement of the four 

 lines especially near the apex. Is it generally known that the larvae feed on 

 bramble ? In Middlesex they are to be taken on it by night in April, and 

 under leaves of dock in lanes by day. 



C. Silaceata. — Once, by beating bushes in Park Ground Inclosure, New 

 Forest. May. 



