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much darker, stronger made, and more strongly marked insects, 

 than those I take about the house. They probably feed on 

 skins, feathers, &c. 



T. tapetzclla. — A pest in a harness-room or farm -stable, if 

 the horse-collars, saddles, &c., are not properly attended to. 



T. granella. — Not uncommon, but not such a common insect 

 as 



T. doace/ia, which is abundant everywhere. 



T. inisella. — Common, and generally distributed. All the 

 insects belonging to this family which we have here may be net- 

 ted on the wing in the evening twilight, and most of them come 

 to light. 



T. fuscipunctella. — I have only one specimen of this insect, 

 taken in an outhouse here, in July; but I may have overlooked it. 



T. pellio7iella. — Common, and generally distributed. 



T. lapella. — Also a common summer insect. 



T. biselliella. — Thank goodness, I have scarcely been able to 

 procure a set of this insect here, as it is one of the most destruc- 

 tive to furniture that we have. 



T. se7nifulvella. — This pretty insect is common along the wood- 

 sides here. Mr Stainton does not mention upon what the larvae, 

 feed ; probably rotten wood. 



T. bistrigeila. — This pretty little insect, which always strikes 

 me as being unlike its congeners, is not very common here. I 

 have beaten it off birch in June. • 



Lamprojiia 7'ul)iella. — Locally common among raspberry- 

 bushes. Is very noticeable where it occurs, flying about the 

 food-plant in the evenings early in June. 



Ificurvaria inasciiklla. — Common among birch. 



/. pedinea. — Not so common as the last, and appears somewhat 

 earher in April and May in the same locality. 



Neinophora stvainmerdamdla., and N. Sdiwarziella. — Both these 

 insects occur here commonly in the month of May. 



Adda fibidella. — Plentiful wherever I have observed it; par- 

 ticularly so amongst a large bed of Hypericum, the flowers 

 of which appear to have a great attraction for it. May and 

 June. 



A. viriddla. — Plentiful among Vaccinium myrtillus under scat- 

 tered birches in the month of May. 



Mic7'opteryx calthdla. — Plentiful in May among meadow-hay 

 near my house, and otherwise distributed. 



M, seppella. — Plentiful in the same locality. 



