INSECTS BOMBYCES (continued') BoMBYCIDAE Trichiura crataegi, L. Leicester, Ashby de la Zouch, Market Harborough, Loughborough ; larvae, Mar- ket Bosworth Poecilocampa populi, L. Gen. dist., larvae, Leicester, Market Bosworth Eriogaster lanestris, L. c. in larvae state Bombyx neustria, L. Quorn, Loughborough, Market Harborough s a form without the white lines occurs in the Soar Valley quercus, L. Widely dist. but n.c. Odonestris potatoria, L. Gen. dist., larvae c. Lasiocampa quercifolia, L. Leicester, Earl Shilton, no recent record SATURNIIDAE Saturnia carpini, Schiff. Two old records, now extinct DREPANULIDAE Deprana lacertinaria, L. Bardon Hill on birch ; Ashby de la Zouch falcataria, L. Owston and Cloud Woods, Bardon Hill binaria, Hufn. Market Bosworth, Bardon Hill, Loughborough Cilix glaucata, Scop. Gen. Dist. DlCRANURIDAE Dicranura furcula, L. Leicester, Loughborough, Gumley, Cloud Wood, i. bifida, Hb. Loughborough, Cloud Wood, Gumley vinula, L. Gen. dist. NoTODONTIDAE Pterostoma palpina, L. Market Bosworth, Leicester, Quorn, Gumley ; freely at light, also bred Lophopteryx camelina, L. Gen. dist. cuculla, Esp. Stoneygate Notodonta dictaea, L. Leicester, Loughborough, Gumley dictaeoides, Esp. Quorn dromedarius, L. Bardon Hill, Cloud Wood, Lough- borough, Gumley ziczac, L. Market Bosworth ; larvae Bardon Hill, Loughborough chaonia, Hb. Loughborough, larvae trimacula, Esp. Seal Wood, Loughborough PYGAERIDAE Phalera bucephala, L. Gen. dist. CYMATOPHORIDAE Thyatira derasa, L. Market Bosworth at sugar, (Birkenhead), Leicester district, Loughborough, Gumley, n.c. batis, L. Locally at sugar, Leicester, Loughborough, Market Harborough Cymatophora or, Fb. Gumley duplaris, L. Buddon Wood at sugar fluctuosa, Hb. Nr. Market Harborough Asphalia diluta, Fb. Knlghton, Loughborough, Gumley flavicornis, L. Bardon Hill at rest, larvae in rolled up leaves of birch (Bouskell) 81 NOCTUAE BRYOPHILIDAE Bryophila muralis, Forst. Nr. Market Harborough (Matthews) perla, Fb. Gen. dist. on granite walls BOMBYCOIDAE Demas coryli, L. Buddon Wood, larvae also Acronycta tridens, Schiff. Larvae gen. dist. psi, L. v.c. leporina, L. Cloud Wood, I. (Rev. G. A. Small- wood) aceris, L. Bradgate Park, Gumley, Loughborough megacephela, Fb. Loughborough, Gumley, &c. alni, L. Larvae from Market Bosworth, Knightm, Loughborough, Gumley, Ashby ligustri, Fb. Larvae nr. Loughborough, Gumley rumicis, L. Leicester, Owston Wood, Market Bos- worth, Loughborough, Gumley, larvae fairly c. Diloba caeruleocephala, L. c. LEUCANIIDAE Leucania conigera. Aylcstone, Bradgate at sugar; Mar- ket Bosworth, Loughborough, Owston Wood, Gumley - turca, L. Nr. Loughborough (Weildt) lithargyri.i, Esp. Gen. dist. obsoleta, Hb. Nr. Market Harbonugh (Matthews) - comma, L. Gen. dist. impura, Hb. Gen. dist. pallens, L. Gen. dist. Coenobia rufa, Haw. Aylcstone Tapinostola fulva, Hb. Market Bosworth, Leicester, Gumley, Owston Wcod Nonagria arundinis, Fb. In reed mace, John o' Gaunt, Loughborough, Gumley Calamia lutosa, Hb. Gumley APAMEIDAE Gortyna flavago, Esp. Market Bosworth, Leicester, Gumley, Bardon Hill Hydroecia nictitans, Bork. Gen. dist. petasitis, Dbl. Stoneygate micacea, Esp. Loughborough, Gumley, Market Bos- worth, Leicester, n.c. Axylia putris, L. Widely dist. Xylophasia rurea, Fb. c. - lithoxylea, Fb. Gen. dist. sublustris, Esp. Quorn, Market Bosworth, Lough- borough, Gumley, n.c. monoglypha, Hufn. v.c. hepatica, L. Gen. dist. scolopacina, Esp. Gumley Neuria reticulata, Vill. Loughborough (Weildt) Neuronia popularis, F. c. Chareas graminis, L. c. Cerigo matura, Hufn. Quorn, Blaby, Gumley, Owston Wood, at sugar Luperina testacea, Hb. c. cespitis, Fb. Stoneygate (Bouskell) Mamestra abjecta, Hb. Knighton, Gumley sordida, Bork. Stoneygate, Glen Parva albicolon, Hb. Quorn furva, Hb. Gumley brassicae, L. v.c. persicariae, L. v.c. II