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which had been hung up on a tree some months before and for- 

 gotten. 



Pancalia latreillella. — Common in May on the dry tops and 

 faces on Moncreiffe Hill. Like its congener, 



G. leuwenhockdla^ it is quick in its movements, and easily 

 lost sight of, although it makes but short flights. If disturbed 

 more than once, it crawls under the small stones or short herb- 

 age on which it delights to sun itself, and may with a little prac- 

 tice be easily boxed. 



Glyphipteryx equitella. — Of this pretty little insect I have only 

 one specimen, captured on an afternoon in August at rest on 

 blossoms of the wild thyme. The food-plant, Sedum acre, grows 

 on the rocky face where I met with my specimen. 



G. fischeriella. — Following up Mr Stainton's advice when de- 

 scribing the habits of this insect in his ' History of the Tineina,' 

 I fell in with a large colony of the imago disporting themselves 

 on the sunny side of a rough hedge at the base of Moncreiffe 

 Hill in the end of May 1878. 



Heliozela sericiella. — Plentiful in May flying in the sunshine in 

 certain localities. I on one occasion found the imago flying in 

 clouds about a young Abies Douglasii which was growing under 

 oak-trees on the face of Moncreiffe Hill. 



Argyresthia ephippella. — Not uncommon in my garden or on 

 the hill-face, where the wild cherry grows in August. 



A. nitidella. — Curiously enough, I have not found this a very 

 common insect here, although there is plenty of hawthorn. I have 

 a few specimens named by Mr Stainton, which I have taken by 

 rather promiscuous beating in July. 



A. semitesiacella. — Common in August beaten off beech-trees; 

 seems very partial to copper-beech, 



A. spiniella. — I have one or two specimens in my cabinet 

 named as this insect, but I see very little difference between 

 them and the above species. They were also beaten off beech. 



A. albistria. — I have not noticed this insect commonly, but 

 have taken it in the garden here. 



A. conjugella. — Local, according to the presence of the moun- 

 tain-ash ; but plentiful where it occurs in the month of June. 



A. retinella. — I find it commonly among the apple-trees in my 

 garden in the month of June. 



A. dilcctella. — I met with one specimen on the last day of July 

 1877 flying about 2. cupressus or Juniperiis, whichever it may be 

 (but I have so many varieties mixed up together in my grounds. 



