1909. J 259 



Unfortunately, Mr. Whittingham has made no description of either the larva 

 or tiie pupa, which, although tiie imago has often been bred, are apparently still 

 undescribed. He has, however, kindly promised to rectify these omissions next 

 season, if possible. — EusTACE R. Bankes, The Close, Salisbury: Septem- 

 ber 2ith, 1909. 



[^Penthina sanciana abounds on the hilly moors around Ifuddersfield, the larvae 

 feeding in the spring.— G. T. P.] 



Ephestia semirufa [Haio. ?), Sfn., in Kent. — Ephestia semirufa (Haw. ?), Stn , 

 although met with in plenty at Teignmouth, S. Devon, by the late Dr. R. C. R. 

 Jordan, some sixty years ago, as chronicled by him in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv, 

 274-275 (1888), has always proved excessively local, and now appears to be one 

 of our rarest Phycitidx. It may, therefore, be of interest to record the fact that 

 the national British collection contains an undoubted example of it — as shown not 

 only by the colour and mai'kings, but also by the costal lappet — that was taken at 

 Lewisham, Kent, by the late Mr. H. T. Stainton, on May 22nd, 1848. Stainton 

 himself identified this individual as semirufa, and seeing that it remained in his 

 collection during his lifetime, and that the portion of the " Manual " treating of 

 the Phycitidie was not published until ten years after the capture was made, 

 it seems strange that the only localities there entered for the insect are Bristol and 

 Lyndhurst. So far as we are aware, E. semirufa is confined to England, and in 

 Lep. Brit. Isl., x, 62 (1905), Barrett enumerates seven counties as the only ones 

 known to him in which this Ephestia has occurred. Kent, however, is not 

 included in his list, and, together with Sussex, whence I recorded a specimen, taken 

 by Miss A. D. Edwards in 1906, in Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, xviii, 83 (1907), must be 

 added thereto.— Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle : October 16<A, 1909 



Evetria [Retinia] resinella, L., captured in the imaginal state. — In Lep. Brit. 

 Isl., xi, 42 (1907), the late Mr. C. G. Barrett, when treating of the imaginal habits 

 of Evetria resinella, wrote as follows : — " .... but so far I am not aware 

 of the capture of a single specimen in these Islands." It seems advisable, there- 

 fore, to put on record the fact that seven imagines of this species were beaten out 

 of young Scots pines, and secured, in Rothiemurchus Forest, Inverness-shire, 

 June 23rd— 29th, 1908, viz., two by my wife, two by Canon C. T. Cruttwell, and 

 three by myself. A single specimen had been taken in the same Forest by 

 Canon Cruttwell, on June 29th, 1907, and the insect is consequently included, in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, xviii, 257 (1907), in the list of those that he met with while 

 spending part of that month at Aviemore, which is in close proximity to Rothie- 

 murchus Forest. It is worthy of notice that the county of Inverness, in which these 

 captures were made, is not one of the six specified by Barrett {op. cit., p. 43) 

 as the only localities for the insect that were known to him in the United 

 Kingdom. -Id. : October I8th, 1909. 



Notes en Olethreutes hifasciana, Haw., and Evetria sylvestrana, Curt. — 

 I first met with Olethreutes bifasciana in July, 1886, flying at dusk round the 

 boughs of a solitary Scotch Fir in this parish. The following June I gathered a 

 quantity of male catkins from the same tree and bred several imagos. In July, 



