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 INSECTS HETEROCERA {continued) Sphinges {continued) Sesia scoliaeformis, Hub. ; once by the Rev. S. Ccxrnish Watkins in July 1893, settled on a stone in R'wer Gu/yne. This river, till the readjustment of the counties, was for some distance the divide between Herefordshire and Monmouth- shire, and its botany is still included in the Herefordshire flora. S. spheciformis, SchifF. ; Sioie Edith and Lynton Woods, more than once found in the afternoon paired on the twigs of birch bushes ; feeds in stems of birch as well as alder. S. tipuliformis, L. S. cynipiformis, Esp. ; larvae in the stools of oak, under the bark ; common. S. myopaeformis, Bork. ; larva on the trunk of apple trees, under the bark, and generally where the latter has been injured by accident or disease. S. culiciformis, L. ; larvae common in the stools of birch the first year after falling. S. ichneumoniformis, Schiff. ; not uncommon at Dozvard and in Wool- hope district. S. formicaeformis, Esp. ; Ledbury and banks of Wye Sphaecia bembeciformis. Hub. S. apiformis, L. Both common ZYGAENIDAE Procris statices, L. ; Leominster. P. geryon, Hub. ; north end of Malvern Hill, common Zygaena trifolii, Esp. Z. lonicerae, Esp. Z. fili- pendulae, L. Zeuzera aesculi, L. Cossus ligniperda. Fab. ; not common in Hereford- shire Hepialus hectus, Ochs. H. lupulinus, L. H. syl- vinus, L. H. velleda, Esp. ; Croft Castle (Hut- chinson), must surely also occur on the north and west of the county. H. humuli, L. Sarothripa revayana, SchifF. ; not uncommon Halias prasinana, L. ; H. quercana, SchifF. ; Woolhope, Ledbury, and Leominster districts, not rare Nola cucuUatella, L. N. confusalis, Hb. Nudaria mundana, L. Calligenia miniata, Forst. ; Tarrington, Leominster, not common Setina mesomella, L. ; Doward, Woolhope district, not rare Lithosia complana, L. ; Leominster, Doward, rare. L. complanula, Bdv. L. griseola, Hb. ; Woolhope, common ; var. stramineola, occasionally. L. rubricollis, L., itoke Edith Wood, Ross Deiopeia pulchella, L. ; twice taken at or near Here- ford, at King's Acre by Mr. A. E. Edwards in 1880, and at Breinton by Mr. Du Buisson in 1882 Euchelia jacobaeae, L. ; Doward and Woolhope district, abundant, but very local Nemeophila plantaginis, L. ; Woolhope, Black Mountain Arctia caja, L. Phragmatobia fuliginosa, L. ; Woolhope, Black Moun- tain Spilosoma mendica, L. S. lubricipeda, L. S. men- thrasti, SchifF. Porthesia chrysorrhoea, L. ; Whitfield about 1870 (F. E. Harman). P. auriflua, Fb. P. salicis, L. ; Ledbury, Tarrington, scarce ZYGAENIDAE {continued) Psilura monacha, L. ; Whitfield, common (F. E. Har- man) ; Doward, Woolhope, scarce Dasychira pudibunda, L. Demas coryli, L. Orgyia antiqua, L. Epichnopteryx calvella, Ochs. ; extremely local, Haugh Wood, confined to the ' common ' wood. Pupa cases of female erect and firmly attached in the forks of the bushes, common ; of the male de- pending and loosely attached to the trunks of trees, scarce Fumea intermediella, Braund. Paecilocampa populi, L. Trichiura crataegi, L. Eriogaster lanestris, L. Clisiocampa neustria, L. Lasiocampa quercus, L. ; L. rubi, L. Scarce generally, common on Black Mountain. Odonestis potatoria, L. Gastropacha quercifolia, L. The full-grown larvae usually taken when basking in the sunshine on the top of closely trimmed hawthorn hedges Endromis versicolora, L. The larvae not uncommon some years in Stoke Wood ; Ledbury, scarce Saturnia carpini, W.V. Black Mountain, common, larva on heather ; scarce in the lowlands, larva usually on apple. Drepana falcataria, L. ; D. hamula, D. unguicula, Hb. Woolhope and Doward, common ; Leo- minster, scarce. Platypteryx lacertinaria, L. Cilix spinula, SchifF. Cerura bicuspis, Bkh. In the west and south-west of the county, and thence across the centre at the level of Hereford; south of Hereford, in the Ledbury and Woolhope districts, quite unknown. Most of the specimens have been bred from pupae collected by Dr. Chapman, but the collector is often forestalled by birds or mice (?). C. furcula, L. ; not uncommon. C. bifida, Hb. ; not uncommon. C. vinula, L. Stauropus fagi, L. Whitfield (F. E. Harman), Leo- minster, Woolhope, Ledbury ; always scarce. Notodonta dictaea, L. N. dictaeoides, Esp. ; not rare. N. ziczac, L. N. trepida, Esp. ; widely distri- buted, and not rare m'Woolhope district. N. dromedarius, L. Drymonia chaonia, Hb. D. dodonaea, SchifF.; the commoner of the two ; at least in the Woolhope district Lophopteryx camelina, L. Pterostoma palpina, L. Petasia cassinea, SchifF. Pygaera bucephela, L. Clostera curtula, L.; common. C. reclusa, Fb. ; extremely local, confined to Haugh Wood, where the larva is not uncommon on aspen Diloba caeruleocephala, L. NOCTUAE Gonophora derasa, L. Thyatira batis, L. Cymatophora Duplaris, L. C. fluctuosa, Hb. C. or, SchifF; Woolhope, the least common of the species. C. ocularis, L. 87