19G iJ"'y. 



Nomada lateralis, Paiiz. — Two specimens of this handsome parasitic bee were 

 also taken by myself at the same cluster of bushes, and as Mr. Edward Saunders 

 only gives Norwich, Yorkshire, and Newcastle as its known localities, while Mr. 

 Smith adds Ilighgate Archway, I think it is nearly safe to assume that this is also a 

 fresh locality for this species, and as it was captured in company with Andrena 

 bucephala, which is said to be its host, it. gives me much pleasure to be able to 

 record its capture at the same time. — Id. 



Qelechia alacella in the New Forest. — It is perhaps worth recording the fact 

 that two specimens of the above scarce G-elechia fell to my net last season in the 

 New Forest; one in perfect condition in the middle of July, and another, decidedly 

 the worse for wear, in the last week in August. In Stainton's " Manual," ii, p. 332, 

 the larva is said to feed on " lichen on fruit trees," but as there are no fruit trees 

 within a very long distance of either spot, and as both the moths were beaten from 

 oak, it seems clear that the larva, if it be really a lichen-feeder, is quite as much at 

 home on lichen growing on oak, and it is not unlikely that it would occur on other 

 lichen -covered forest trees as well. — Eustace E. Bankes, The Eectory, Corfe 

 Castle : May mth, 1891. 



P.S. — Since the above note was written, I have referred to Sorhagen's " Die 

 Kleinschmetterlinge der Mark Brandenburg," and his remarks about G. alacella 

 may be worth quoting, as bearing on the point. He says, " Grabow discovered the 

 larva near Berlin at the end of June, on the lichens on oak and fruit trees, where 

 possibly it only goes through its transformations. Larva greyish-white, with black 

 head and thoracic plate." — E. R. B. : June 15th, 1891. 



Oelechia lutulentella in the Isle of Purheck. — On July 15th last year, I had 

 the good fortune to take a nice specimen of Gelechia lutulentella in this neighbour- 

 hood ; it was on the wing at about sunset, in company with O. lentiginosella (which 

 it closely resembles in size and shape), in a rough pasture, where Genista tinctoria 

 grows freely. This insect is apparently one of those which nearly always occur 

 singly, and seem to appreciate the " charms of solitude," in so far as their own 

 species are concerned! — Id. 



Note on Nepticula tormentillella, H.-S. — As on the strength of my note in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., xsiv, 16u, I may, perhaps, be considered responsible for the intro- 

 duction of Nejdicula tormentillella into the British list, I am anxious to clear up 

 the matter, at any rate in so far as I am connected with it. 



Unluckily, not a single moth was bred from the larva? there recorded as having 

 been found on Potentilla tormentilla in Yorkshire and Westmoreland, as they were 

 late stragglers, and were all ichnoumoned, but I have no doubt in my own mind that 

 they belonged in reality to the recently-described N. serella (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv, 

 2G0), instead of to N. tormentillella. 



As regards the specimens in the cabinet of Mr. P. B. Mason, which are men- 

 tioned in my original note as having been bred by the late Mr. Sang, I learn from 

 Mr. Mason that he now fully believes them to be referable to N. serella, rather than 

 to its continental ally. 



It follows, therefore, that the whole of my previous note should be understood 

 as referring to serella, which hatl not been described at the time it was written ; 



