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Pinus pinca,^^ but does not mention whence the larvse were obtained. 

 Stiiinton [Man. ii, 248 (1859)] gives shoots of P. pi?iea as the food 

 of the larva, and enters West Wickhaui and Bournemouth as the 

 British localities for the species, whilst in Entom. xiii, 1(31 (1880), 

 Weston states that the larva feeds " in the shoots of the stone pine 

 (^Pinus pineci) and other pines," and mentions Croydon, Putney, and 

 West Wickham as its stations in the ' Surrey, Kent and Sussex ' 

 district. Meyrick, however [H.B. Br. Lep., 472 (1895)], merel}^ says 

 that the larva feeds " in shoots of Pinus si/lvestrls,'" and gives " Kent 

 to Dorset and Hereionl " as the range of the insect's known distribution 

 in the British Isles. The continental authors, whose works I have 

 consulted, recoi'd P. pinaster and picea as food-plants of E. si/lvestrana, 

 but do not mention P. pinea or sijloestris, and clear proof of its 

 attachment to these two last-named pines seems desirable. 



Mr. McKae, when forwarding to Mr. Barrett and others catkin- 

 clusters containing larvae of E. si/lvestrana and O. bifasciana, merely 

 referred to them as " pine-blossoms," so he is in no way res[)t)iisibl(' for 

 any confusion as to their identity. In fact, it is only through my 

 having just sent him shoots and cones of P. pinaster, that he is now 

 able to assign its scientiiic name to the species that has supplied him 

 with all his larvse of both Tortrices. He tells me that it is known at 

 Bournemouth as "the Weymouth pine;" this, however, is an 

 unfortunate misnomer, for P. strobus, also called '" the white pine," 

 is the true " Weymouth pine." I am assured by Mr McKae that 

 P. pinaster and sylvestris are the only two pines gi-owing at Bourne- 

 mouth, except in the public and private gardens : both of these 

 abound there, even the former, which was introduced in 18t)5, being 

 self-pro|iagating. 



The larvse of E. sijlvestrana that I have collected for various 

 friends and myself have, without exception, come off a single 

 individual of P. pinaster (the only one growing in the spot in 

 question), and, even if proof is forthcoming that they sometimes feed 

 on P. sylvestris, it is certain that, in this part of the country, the 

 species shows a most marked preference for the former pine. 

 .Hthough frequently collecting amongst P. sylvestris in a district 

 where E. sylvestrana occurs, it has never yet yielded me a single 

 example of the imago. 



Norden, Corfe Castle : 



September \Qth, 1909. 



