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Occurrence in Britain of the typical form of Aristotelia stipeUa, Rb. — Of tho 

 t.ypieal form of Aristotelia stipella, Hb., which has a broiid yellow fascia towards 

 the base, a large triangular yellon' spot on the dorsum just beyond the middle, and a 

 still larger yellow costal spot rather before tho apes of the fore-wing, Staiiiton [Ent. 

 Mo. Mag.jXxiii, 101 (1886)] wrote, — " I do not seem to possess any British represen- 

 tative," whilst in Meyrick's HB. Brit. Lep., 574 (1895), we read, — " Only the variety 

 nseviferella .... occurs in Britain ; tiie typical stipeUa, which has the yellow 

 markings much more largely developed, is South European." The object of this 

 note is to call attention to the facts that the typical stipeUa, Hb., has since been 

 proved to occur in Britain, and that the idea of its being confined to Southern 

 Europe is, consequently, no longer tenable. In July, 1898, Mr. W. H. B. Fletclier 

 took the type form commonly, together with a few examples of var. nxviferella, 

 Dup., amongst Atriplex portulacoides in Uayling Island, and, from larvae sub- 

 sequently found there, mining in the leaves of this plant, he bred a beautiful series, 

 including both the type and the variety, in the following year, many of the speci- 

 mens agreeing precisely with Hiibner's figure 138 {^'stipeUa"). Mr. Fletcher's 

 interesting discovery has already been briefly recorded in the List of Hampshire 

 Lepidoptera published, in 19UU, in the Victoria History of Hampshire (where the 

 locality happens to be entered as "near Havant"), but since the Lists of the 

 Insecta cannot be obtained separately, and the Volume containing them is probably 

 in the hands of but very few Lepidopterists, it seems advisable to make it more gene- 

 rally known. — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, (Jori'o Castle : February I2th, 1907. 



Steganoptycha rufimitrana, H.-S., bred from Euphorbia amygdaloides, L. — 

 My friend, Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, has kindly given me permission to put on record 

 the following interesting, yet startling, facts. On August 2nd and 9th, 1884, he 

 collected in Folkestone Warren, near the entrance, some larvae of Polychrosis 

 euphorbiana, Frr., on Euphorbia amygdaloides, and from the shoots of this plant 

 then obtained he bred, in the course of that same month, two moths, which appear 

 to him, to Lord Walsingham, and to myself, absolutely inseparable from Steganop- 

 tycha rufimitrana, H.-S., and each re-examination of them has only strengthened 

 my previous conviction that they are genuine representatives of this very variable 

 Tortrix, which is only known to feed upon certain species of Pinus, and has an 

 extremely limited distribution in Britain. The posterior margin of the basal patch 

 is, in the specimens in question, not acutely angulated near the middle, but experi- 

 ence in breeding <S. rufimitrana has pi'oved that individuals, precisely identical with 

 these in this and in every other respect, occur by no means infrequently. It is 

 certain that tlie two imagines bred by Mr. Fletcher must have been collected as 

 pupsB, spun up on Euphorbia amygdaloides, and it is equally certain that there was 

 no species of fir or pine growing anywhere near the spot. Presumably, therefore, 

 the larvae had fed upon this Euphorbia, for the only alternative is to suppose that 

 two larvae of <b\ rufimitrana, when full-fed, had wandered from some neighbouring 

 plant : nothing else growing there, however, would appear any more likely to have 

 afforded this species sustenance. — Id. 



Hymenoptera Aculeata at Porthcawl, 1906.— During last season Col. Yerbury 

 spent some time at Porthcawl, and amongst his numerous captures which with his 



