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seen from the Plate (Fig. 6), very similar indeed to a form of the 

 well known elm-feeding Xanthia gilvago, Esp. X. ocellaris feeds 

 on poplar. g. t. p. 



Fig. 8. — Ophiusa stoJida, Fab., ^. — The specimen figured of this 

 beautiful South European Noctua was taken, at sugar, at G-almpton, 

 on the South Devon Coast, by Mr. J. Jager, on September 23rd, 1903. 

 Its condition was so absolutely fresh, and for a Noctua the species is 

 so frail, that it seems impossible for it to have been an immigrant. 

 And that it had been bred on the spot is still more probable, in that 

 large old bramble bushes (the food plant), which have apparently not 

 been disturbed for many years, abound at the place. Further search 

 in different years, both by Mr. Jager and myself, however, have failed 

 to produce another, and so it remains at present the only British 

 captured example. The specimen is in Mr. Jitger's collection. 



G. T. p. 



Fig. 9. — Gelechia (Lita) salicornue, Hering. (Stgr. and Ebl. 

 Cat. 2703 ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 592). The references and life-history 

 of this species are given at length in Ent. Mo. Mag., XXX (2nd ser., V), 

 80, 188-90 (1894), and coloured figures by Mrs. Richardson have 

 been published in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and 

 Antiquarian Field Club, Vol. XVII, PI. 12, fig. 2 (1896), but as this 

 work is likely to be inaccessible to many Entomologists, the figure of 

 the imago is here reprodviced. e. r. b. 



Figs. 10, 10a. — Argyresthia (?) decimella, Stn. (Stgr. and Rbl. 

 Cat. 2413). — An account of all we know about the unique example of 

 this species will be found in Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXIV (2nd ser., IX), 

 pp. 263-4 (1878). The species was described by Stainton, Suppl. 

 Cat. Br. Tin. and Pter. p. 10, sp. 61 (1851) : the only published figure 

 is that given in F. O. Morris's Nat. Hist, of Brit. Moths, Vol. IV, 

 PI. 116, fig. 6, p. 150 (1870) from a drawing by the late J. Jenuer 

 Weir. The exact record of this specimen was, apparently. Champion 

 Hill, Camberwell, Surrey: June, 1850. Fig. 10a represents the labial 

 palpus. E. R. B. 



Fig. 11. — Aristotelia tetragoneUa, Stn. (Stgr. and Ebl. Cat. 2816 ; 

 Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 577). This species, which was described by 

 Stainton, Ent. Mo. Mag., XXII, 99 (1885) as Gelechia tetragoneUa, is 

 now figured for the first time since its discovery in England in 1881. 

 Snellen recorded A. tetragoneUa from Holland in 1889, from specimens 

 taken at Bergen-op-Zoom, in July, 1876 ; Staudinger and Eebel 



