2SG [December, 



J. B. Hodgkinson bred two moths from among mauy miuea found near 

 Windermere on Prunus padus {vide Ent. Eec, x, 165) : one of these, 

 which I have not yet seen, is in the Merton collection, while the other, 

 labelled by him"P«JweZfe" (s/'c), is in my own collection, and is sorhi. 

 The late J. Sang also bred a Lithocolletis from mines on Prunus padus 

 collected in Weardale : I have not seen his specimens, but have no 

 doubt he was right in believing them to be identical with "the 

 mountain-ash species" (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii, 262), by which he meant 

 sorhi. The union oi pa dell a with sorhi is further justified by the fact 

 that Dr. Wood finds the male genitalia of continental examples of 

 padella precisely similar to those of British and continental sorhi. 



9.— Lithocolletis cydoniella, Fb. 



Tinea cydoniella (Schiff.), Fb., Ent. Syst., iii (2), 323, No. 159 

 (1794) ; Sppl.,498, No. 98 (1798) ; Hb.,Tin., PI. 39, fig. 271 (c. 1803). 



= Lithocolletis pomifoliella, 7i., Is., 1839, 218 (partim) ; L. E., i, 

 196—9 (partim) (1846). 



= Lithocolletis cydoniella, Frey, Tin. u. Pter. Schweiz, 337, No. 

 11 (1856) ; MT. Schweiz. Ent. Ges,, i, 350—1, No. 36 (1865) ; Lep. 

 Schweiz, 413 (1880) ; Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., xii, 211 (1869) ; Vlind. 

 Ned. Microlep., 919—20, No. 16 (1882) ; Hein., Schmet. Deutsch., 

 Tin., 668, No. 1055 (1876) ; Shgn., Kleinsch. M. Brand., 342, No. 

 225 (1886). 



Larva — in mine on under-side of leaves of Pyrus cydonia, and 

 more rarely, of P. commmiis and its cultivated varieties, ix — x, and 

 probably vi — vii. 



Pupa — xi — iv, and probably vii. I have no information about 

 the cocoon. 



Lmago — iv — v, and probably viii. 



Broods — two, doubtless, though I can only find mention of one. 

 We learn from Snellen (Vlind. Ned. Microlep., 919—20) that the 

 insect hibernates as a pupa, and from him and other authors that the 

 imago emerges in the spring, \\z., A\)Y\\ — May (one specimen in the 

 Stainton continental collection is labelled as bred on March 17th, 1859, 

 but perhaps it was forced out rather unusually early), and from these 

 facts one may safely assume that the species is double-brooded. Cy- 

 doniella, which is at present unknown in Britain, is apparently rare 

 or overlooked, on the continent, and this probably accounts for the 

 absence of any published information about a second brood. 



i/oi. — Central Europe. 



