INSECTS T'he 'Transactions of the Worcestershire Naturalists Club, i 847-1 899 : T.W.N.C. It is by the kind assistance of Messrs. W. Edwards, W. H. Edwards, Rev. E. C. Dobree Fox, Messrs G. D. Hancock, J. Peed and R. F. Towndrow that we are enabled to place the following list before the reader. Amongst the Rhopalocera (Butterflies) the following are very rare and almost extinct : Apatura Iris, Nemeobius luxina, Lycana corydon and cegon, Pieris daplidice and Aporia crateegi ; whilst amongst the Heterocera (Moths) CEonistis quadra, Lithosia deplana, Miltochrista senex, Coscinia cribrum, Diacrisia urticce, Arctia villica, Leucania turca, L. vitellina, Agrotis lunigera, A. subrosea, Caradrina 00, Hadena jiammea, H. pabulatricula [connexa), Boletobia fuliginaria, Plusia orichalcea and bractea, Eustrotia uncula, Ocneria dispar, Leptomeris marginepunctata, Pseudopanthera pictaria, and P. hippocastanaria and Leucophthalmia orbicularia have either entirely disappeared or are of very rare occurrence. The subjoined list includes 57 Rhopalocera, 254 Caradrinina, 233 Notodontina, 14 Lasiocampina, 76 Pyralidina, 8 Psy china, 124 Tortricina, 141 Tineina, and 9 Micropterygina, making a grand total of 916. This exceeds by 326 the number of species enumerated by Edwards and Towndrow in the latest list that has appeared for Worcestershire or a part thereof. Under the headings of various well-favoured haunts the more local insects have been formed into groups which have been appended to the following list. RHOPALOCERA IV. PAPILIONINA Melitaea aurinia, Rott. Worcester (St. p. I. NYMPH ALID^E ^^'> ^^bleton (Fletcher); Oddingley, Great Malvern, but disappeared (N. Argynnis paphia, L. Wyre Forest, July 18, p. 42) ; rare (W. Edwards, T.M.N. F.C. 1895, July 30, 1896 ; Shrawley, p. 175) ; Cowleigh Park and other July, common (T.M.N. F.C. p. 175, marshy places, formerly on Malvern Fletcher); M««/f /iTW (G.D.Hancock) Link Common (E. & T. p. 4); not — adippe, L. Monk Wood and Shrawley common, Trench Woods ; a specimen Wood (N. p. 33) ; Wyre Forest, July taken on the wing in Friar Street, 18, 1895 ; Malvern Woods, Ockeridge Worcester, April, 1834 (I.N.H.W. (T.M.N.F.C. p. 175); Bredon Hill p. 137); Wyre Forest (W. H. (W. H. Edwards, Fletcher) Edwards) ; formerly common at Crad- — aglaia, L. Monk Wood (N. p. 29 ; ley, specially in a field in Leigh Sinton T.M.N.F.C. p. 175); Wyre Forest i?«W (Rev. E. C. Dobree Fox) (W. H. Edwards) ; one specimen, Vanessa c-album, L. Worcester (St. p. 40, Monk Wood (Fletcher) and N. p. 51); Worcester, June 29, — lathonia, L. (T.M.N.F.C. p. 175) 1896 ; Wyre Forest, July 30, 1896; — euphrosyne, L. Worcester (St. p. 43); Craycombe, Monk Wood; generally dis- Trench Woods, May 1 8, 1895; Tid- tributed (W. H. Edwards); fields, desley Wood, May 22, 1 894; Wyre lanes and hopyards (Fletcher) i^flr«?,Afa«<f^^05(^; generally distributed — urtics, L. Common (Fletcher) (W. H. Edwards, Fletcher) — polychloros, L. Worcester (St. p. 39) — selene, SchifF. Worcester (St. p. 43) ; and Malvern (N. p. 58) ; chiefly Monk Wood (N. p. 39, Fletcher) ; about Mathon and Cradley, but oc- Malvern Woods, Crown East, June casionally elsewhere (E. & T. p. 3) ; (T.M.N.F.C. p. 175) ; Wyre Forest Nunnery Wood, Northwick, etc., scarce
