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INSECTS Tn.iFiN.ffi (continued) Hadena rurea, F. Common everywhere in various forms ; type and var. alope- curus, Esp. hepatica, Hb. Not common. Hampton- in-Arden (one in 1 900, G. W. Wynn); Knowle (Blatch Coll.); Rugby (Rugby lists); Ather stone (C. Baker) scolopacina, Esp. Not common. Knowle (G. W. Wynn, W. G. Blatch, etc.) ; Hay Woods (G. W. Wynn, etc.) ; Wolford (W. C. E. Wheeler) ; Ather- stone (C. Baker) basilinea, F. Common everywhere gemina, Hb. Common. Button (with var. remissa, P. W. Abbott, etc.) ; Knowle (R. C. Bradley, etc.); Hamp- ton-in-Arden (G. W. Wynn) ; Small Heath (H. Taylor); Rugby = Over- slade, etc. (Rugby lists) ; Wolford (W. C. E. Wheeler) unanimis, Tr. Rare. Has occurred in the Birmingham district, but whether on the Warwickshire side or not I do not know. Mr. G. H. Kenrick took it at Selly Oak in Wor- cestershire, and Mr. F. Enock records it in the ten-mile radius (List, 1870). It is also mentioned in the Rugby lists from Brownsover and Overslade, but needs confirmation on the whole secalis, L. (didyma, Esp. ; oculea, Gn.) Occurs in various forms commonly everywhere Aporophyla lutulenta, Bkh. Very rare. Has been taken at Knowle, where Mr. H. W. Ellis got one in 1898 at ' sugar,' and where it is mentioned as occurring in the Blatch Catalogue Polia flavicincta (S.V.), F. Very rare, and I should like confirmation. Mr. A. Sidgwick recorded it in 1867 in Rugby lists, and his son writes to me that he believes it to be correct, and Mr. W. C. E. Wheeler records it at Wolford. chi, L. Occurs throughout the county Brachionycha sphinx, Hufn. (cassinea, Hb.) Wolford (occasionally, W. C. E. Wheeler) Miselia oxyacanthae, L. Common every- where with var. capucina, Mill. Dichonia aprilina, L. Occurs throughout the county Dryobota protea (S.V.), Bkh. Common throughout the county Dipterygia scabriuscula, L. Is recorded in Rugby list, 1886, as occurring at Kings Newnham near Rugby, and is sufficiently distinct for no error to be I 137 TRIFIN^E (continued) likely in its identification ; it is how- ever a rare midland insect Euplexia lucipara, L. Common every- where Brotolomia meticulosa, L. Common every- where Mania maura, L. Occurs throughout the county not uncommonly Naenia typica, L. Common everywhere Hydroecia nictitans, Bkh. Common every- where micacea, Esp. Common. Sutton (P. W. Abbott) ; Knowle (one as late as Nov. 2, W. G. Blatch, etc.) ; Hampton- in-Arden (G.W.Wynn); Small Heath (H. Taylor) ; Rugby = Overslade, etc. (Rugby lists) ; Atherstone (C. Baker) ; Wolford (W. C. E. Wheeler) Gortyna ochracea, Hb. (flavago, Esp.) Not uncommon. Sutton (C.J.W., P. W. Abbott, etc.); Knowle (R. C. Bradley, etc.); Hay Mills, etc. (J. T. Foun- tain); SmallHeath (H.Taylor); Rugby = Overslade, etc. (Rugby lists) Nonagria typhae, Thnbg. Local, but prob- ably occurs wherever its food plant grows freely ; recorded from Knowle (R. C. Bradley, etc.) ; Sutton (P. W. Abbott) ; near Whitacre (G. W. Wynn) ; Rugby = Kings Newnham, etc. (Rugby lists) Tapinostola fulva, Hb. Sutton Park (P.W. Abbott, G. W. Wynn, etc.); Knowle (R. C. Bradley, G. W. Wynn) ; Hampton-in-Ardcn (G. W. Wynn) ; Rugby Cathiron, etc. (Rugby lists) ; Whitchurch (J. H. Bloom) Calamia lutosa, Hb. Mr. R. C. Bradley possesses a specimen which was taken at ' light ' at the signal box at Knowle railway station. Mr. F. Enock in his 1869 list also gives it as occurring in the ten-mile radius from Birmingham, on what authority I know not Leucania impura, Hb. Common every- where pallens, L. Common everywhere comma, L. conigera, F. Hampton-in-Arden (' sugar,' 1900, G. W. Wynn) ; Knowle (Blatch Coll.) ; Solihull (Blatch Cat.) ; Rugby = Overslade, etc. (Rugby lists) ; Wolford (Austen, W. C. E. Wheeler) ; Whitchurch (J. H. Bloom) lithargyria, Esp. Throughout the county Grammesia trigrammica, Hufn. Through- out the county 18