THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. 11. 



[VOLUME XXVII.] 

 EDITOEIAL. 



Mi*. Gr. C. Champion, F.Z.S., who has been a contributor to this 

 Magazine almost from its commencement, has joined the staff, and 

 will give his assistance in his own special Order, and generally. 



ON CERTAIN BEITISH SPECIES OF CONCEYLIS. 

 BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, MA., F.R S., &c. 



CONCHTLIS AFFINITANA, Dgl. 



Gochylis affinitana, Dgl, Zool., iv, 1269-70, 1268, fig. 7. (1846). 

 Q n. syn. = Cochylis cancellana, Z., Is., 18-47, 739-40. 



In 1884, Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher was good enough to send nie 

 ^\feome stems of Statice Umonium from the Isle of Wight, from which 

 I bred a nice series of Goniodoma UmonicJla, Stn. From among these 

 ^^.atems appeared a single specimen of Conchjjlis njjinitana, Dgl. I have 

 '^ carefully compared this bred specimen with the type of Conchylis 

 cancellana, Z., and they are obviously the same species. 



My acquaintance with this insect has lately been renewed by 

 ^ breeding it from larvae found in the dead stems of Aster tripolium in 

 a salt marsh near Cannes, last April. They entirely agree with 

 English examples, and as one Bucculatrix maritima aX^o appeared from 



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