236 t October, 



wns flying in oompanj with G. xohitelln and G. ericefeVa, tliougli much more 

 sparingly. I referreci if. to the authorities of the Oxfo'-rl Museum, who returned it 

 as probably a northern variety of G. sequax. Tn January of this year T asked the 

 opinion of Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, who in due course pronounced it to be Gelechia 

 streliciella. During the last days of Tune this year T was again at Aviemore, and 

 revisited the locality in the hope of finding it again. The weather was so unfavoura- 

 ble that only nine specimens were secured, though I have reason to believe that the 

 species is not very uncommon in suitable situations in that locality. Tt lies very 

 close, and cannot be disturbed except during sunshine, when it flies with great 

 rapidity, just over the lierbage.for a few yards, and then rests on the ground, where, 

 owing to its closely rolled wings, it is far from easy to see it. Its time of emergence 

 Is about the middle of June. — C. T. Cbuttwell, Ewelme Rectory, Wallingford : 

 Jh/.V 27th, 1907. 



Gelechia dreliclelln, TT.-S., in Britain. — This Gelechia, under (he name 

 " sfrelitziella, H.-S." {recte " strelitziella, Hein." = streliciella, H.-S.), was added 

 to the British List by Stainton in Ent. Ann., 1872, p. 12.3, but in Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Ser. 2, iv, pp. 213-14 (1893\ I showed that it must bo removed therefrom, the 

 addition having been based upon an erroneous identification, and there being then 

 no proof that the insect had ever occurred in the United Kingdom. It has, there- 

 fore, afforded me especial pleasure to have recently had the opportunity, fourteen 

 years after the publicaticni of my previous note, of identifying Canon Cruttwell's 

 Scottish Gelechia as the true xtreliciella, TT.-S!. Seeing that tlie two specimens of 

 it, that reached me in his box of " deter minanda," were not referable to any recog- 

 nised British species, and being unable at the time to compare them with any good 

 continental collection, T forwarded them for Lord Walsinghani's opinion. In his 

 absence abroad, Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, when returning them, kindly enclosed an 

 undoubted example of xtreliciella, H.-S., from f he Zeller collection, as being probably 

 identical with tliem, and this I found to be certainly the case. 



Gelechia fitinatella, Dgl., which has been erroneously sunk by Meyrick [TIB. 

 Br. Lep., 601 (1S05)] as conspecific with di<itinctella, Z., and upon which I hope to 

 contribute some notes later on, is the British species most closely resembling 

 streliciella, but may with certainty be distinguished from it by the very conspicuous 

 white dots or dashes that, accompany the black stigmata, and by the colour of the 

 fascia and of the other pale markings, which are brownish-buff instead of white. 

 As streliciella has been confused with sequax, I may mention that the former is 

 easily separated from the latter by its rather larger size and longer and narrower 

 fore-wings, by its head, which is grey instead of white, by its much less marbled 

 appearance, due to the white markings being much narrower and lees clearly-defined 

 and conspicuous, and by the number, size, and position of the tliree black stigmata. 



The life-histories of both G.fumatella and streliciella seem to be entirely un- 

 known, but whereas all the widely-separated localities known to me for the former 

 are on sandy coasts, the latter appears, both in Scotland and on tlie continent, to 

 frequent inland heaths, &c. 



It seems advisable to mention that Canon Cruttwell's earliest captures of G. 

 streliciella were recorded by him as " G. sequax, a very fine form," in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., Ser. 2, xvi, 259 (1905), which reference must be included in any attempt to 



