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Cumberland specimen of Ar/ailnilium nuiripcnnp fvup-.. two exnmples of 

 Thaedon conchmus Stepli. nenr Drioo, and cine of C'ciithorrliynchns ridvatus 

 Gj'll. in the same locality. The last-named ■was found by Canon Fowler in 

 Eskdale as recorded by him in the Ent. jNfo. Mag-., 3912, p. 286. Among' a 

 SAvarm of Ceyri/nii litforah's Gyll. T picked out a specimen of vuv. hinofafvj^ 

 Stepli. which I have not .seen on the Cumberland coast before. — F. TI. D.^y, 

 20 Currock Terrace, Carlisle : January Wih, 1921. 



Nofo on Ijimitehiiis picinus Mar^hnm. — I have not yet seen a British 

 Limnebius answering the description of this species as given in our modern 

 text-books, i.e. a very small form with the suture of the elytra margined or 

 rebordered towards the apex. All the examples representing- it in my own 

 and the Power collections (from Askham Bog, etc.) belong- to L. aluta Redel, in 

 which the elytra! suture shows no trace of an impressed marginal line. The 

 species possessing: this character, L. evajicscens Ivies. (=znhl(mr/'iis TJey), and the 

 so-called L. picima^ Marsh. (= atamus Duft., miniifi.^sijnKs Gf'rni., and sen'cans 

 Gerh.), form the subgenus JJoIwinms Jiey (= Crepilimnebias Kuw.), and it is 

 evident, therefore, that the rebordered suture is too obvious to be overlooked 

 altogether. I have taken L. evanescens in abundance (with Hi/droscapJin) at 

 Terranova, Sardinia, and the groove is plainly visible in these specimens. In 

 the Stephensian collection, which .should include Marsham's types, there are 

 no Limtiehii belonging to Bey's subgenus, and L. fneiniix is represented by what 

 appears to be L. nitidus of the same author. The proper course, it seems to me, 

 would be to drop Marsham's name (and also that of Z. molli>i) for our smallest 

 Briti.sli species, and to call it L. alula Bedel, restoring- the name atomus Diift. 

 for the so-called Continental Z. jncinu^ INIarsh. Dr. Sharp, at mv request, has 

 ex.amined his specimens, and he cannot find any with an apically bordered 

 elytra! suture. I am indebted to M. Deville for French examjiles of Z. aluta 

 (md L. atomus. — (i. C. Champion, llorsel! : January 192\. 



Notes on the Conifer-feediny species of Argyresthia in the Oxford district. — 

 The distribution of the smaller species of this genus in England seems to be 

 still imperfectly known, their ap])aTent insignificance and similarity (especially 

 in the case of the unicolorous species) can.'^ing thena to be neglected. I 

 therefore give a few notes on their occurrence in this disti-ict. Arr/yresthia 

 dilectella Z. is common among juniper on the Oxfordshire Chilterns and on the 

 Berkshire Downs. It is nut, iiowever, confined to juniper. In July 1920 I 

 found it plentifully on two small Wellinytonia trees on the outskirts of Oxford, 

 and immolating itself in considerable numbers on a newly-varnished fence 

 beneatli. This probably explains why it has come to light in my own house 

 at Oxford, far from any juniper but at no great distance from some Welliny- 

 tonia. I have taken it at light in a similar manner at Milford in Surrey ; but 

 there it might ha\e come (as suggested in the Victoria County Historv of 

 Surrey) from ornamental junipers in gardens. A. aurulentella Stt. is common 

 among juniper on the Oxfordshire Chilterns. A. praecocella Z. is common 

 among juniper on the Chilterns, the actual localities being near Stokenchurch 

 in Bucks, Chinnor, and Watlington in Oxford.shire. It also occurs on the 

 Moulsford Downs in Berkshire, and should be added to the Berkshire countv 

 list. A. arcevthina Z. is common among juiiijier on the Chilterns above 



