^ ( Januarj', 



*\Elachista QleieheneUa, F., one specimen on the wing in Murroch Grien. 



kilmunella, Stt., very common in July on tlie moors among rank 'grass in low lying 

 portions ; on dull days dozens may sometimes be seen in small isolated patches of 

 grass flying from blade to blade with a peculiar fluttering flight. I examined some 

 of those groups, but failed to detect any " virgin female " as the attraction, but of 



course such may have existed, although I could not find it. eleochariella, Stt., 



this species occurred along with the foregoing in fair numbers ; I took one or two 

 specimens that do not agree very well with this, nor with rhynchosporeUa, and which 

 Mr. Barrett would not trust himself to name from the only good specimens I have. 



*fLithovoUetis salicicoleUa, Sire, in rearing Spinolella from sallow leaves I 

 obtained also a few specimens of this last year. sorbi, Fr., in my old list, pre- 

 viously mentioned, I wrote that there was I thought another species of this group 

 occurring on Pyrus maJus ; since then I have had bred specimens returned by Mr. 



Bankes as this species, although the plant is not recorded for it in this country. 



*\ D u lining iell a, Stt., Crofthugen. 



*'\Cemiostoma icitella, Zett , Strathleven orchard, on apple. 



Opostega crepusculeUa, Zett., not uncommon in Strathleven orchard. 



*\ Buccul atrix nlmella, Zett., Crofthugen, Bonhill, on oak. 



*\Nepticula turicella, H.-S., = tityrella, St., Crofthugen, Bonhill. *\igno- 



hilella, Stt., Crofthugen. *\betulicola, Stt., Crofthugen. 



17, Dillichip Terrace, Bonhill, 

 Dumbartonshire : 



November, iyU2. 



HISTORICAL NOTES ON LYCJiNA AEION IN BRITAIN. 

 BY C. W. DALE, F.E.S. 



This species still frequents the flower-cUid slopes of the coasts of 

 Devonshire and Cornwall, and the rough hill sides to be found iu 

 Gloucestershire, among the Cotswold Hills. See Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vols, xxi, xxxii and xxxviii ; Entomologist, vol. xxv. It formerly 

 also frequented the following counties : — 



NoRTHAMPTONSHiBE —The Rev. W. Bree writes in the Zoologist, vol. x, p. 

 3350 : " The great prize of all the butterflies of our neighbourhood I hold to be 

 arion. It is confined entirely to Barnwell Wold, with the exception of a single 

 specimen, which I once met with in a rough field near Polebrook." It was first 

 taken by a son of Mr. Bree's, on July 14.th, 1837. Many entomologists visited 

 Barnwell Wold in search of it, and Mr. Wolley is reported as having taken fifty or 

 sixty specimens in a few days. In 1860 Mr. Coleman writes : " It is less abundant 

 there than formerly, from the repeated attacks of collectors, who catch all they can 

 find ;" and Mr. Goss informs us in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxi, p. 107, that it was 

 certainly extinct in Barnwell Wold when he was there in 1865, and that he was 

 informed that it had been rarely, if ever, seen there since the wet summer of 1860. 

 One specimen was taken at Wigstliorpe by Mr. Henry Doubleday between June 3rd 

 and 28th, 1841 (Entomologist, vol. i, p. 156). 



