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The latter does iiot I'emcmbei' having taken this insect, but has no doubt that 

 it was captured by himself, with Leptnra sanguinolenta (also in Mr. Cocking's 

 box), in the Norfolk feus, as he had not collected elsewhere. 



C. affinis resembles 10-punctata, but is easily distinguished by its black thorax, 

 which ia also less contracted in front, and by the interstices of the elytra being 

 destitute of punctures. There appears to be a vai'iety with the tibiae and sides of 

 the thorax reddish. — C. O. Watekhouse, British Museum, March 4th, 1865. 



Notes on Micro-Lepidoptera {extracted from an unpublished paper read hefore the 

 Cambridge Entomological Society in February, 1865). 



XantJwsetia zcegana. — This is common in the marshy field over the "cutter," 

 among Oentaurea nigra (Black Knapweed), where 1 took several fine specimens at 

 the end of August last ; among them were two beautiful varieties — the Xanthosetia 

 fen-ugana, of Haworth (figured in Wood's index). I also took two of this species in 

 Kent, the first week in July, on a chalk hill ; these spcimens are very small, com- 

 pared with those which we get here, neither are they so brilliant in colour. 



XoMthosetia. hamana. — This is also common in the same localities as the last- 

 named. I first noticed its appearance last year in May, when I took a small one 

 in the field over the " cutter." I took an albino variety in Kent, and the ordinary 

 forms were common enough. This species, unlike zKgana, was generally very large 

 in Kent. The last specimen I took was in September, thus showing great irregularity 

 in its time of appearance in the imago state. 



Chrosis tesserana. — This was in abundance in Kent in the first week in July. 

 I took a fine series, I'anging in colour from light lemon-yellow to deep chestnut 

 red. It flies freely in the sunsliine, and has much the same habit as Sericoris 

 conchana, small specimens of which it much resembles when on the wing. It is a 

 very lively insect, and even when in the net, the chances are almost equal that it gets 

 away, as it is so difficult to bos. 



Tinea simplicella.- — A single specimen of this scarce species, I beat from a 

 hedge of hazel in Kent, the first week in July. I am of opinion that this species 

 feeds either in birds' nests or on rotten wood. 



Tinea nigripunctella. — I found a fine and strongly mai'ked specimen of this in 

 my photographic room in July. 



Adela rufimitrella. — Two specimens taken at rest, in the lane leading to 

 Chesterton Church, at the end of May. I saw one flying in the sunshine, which 

 seemed greatly attached to a plant of Sisymbrium officinale, on which it repeatedly 

 settled ; and on my trying to capture it, it flew off for a short distance, but 

 returned, again and again, and settled on the same plant. This may prove to be 

 the food-plant, as the larva is unknown. On my again visiting the same place, the 

 grass — and with it, of course, the Sisymbrium — had been mown, so that I could 

 ascertain nothing further concerning its economy. 



Sv:ammerdamia Vutarea. — I captured one of this rare species in Kent. I have 

 two others which I met with in the New Forest three or four years ago. 



Bepressaria ? — I took two very fine specimens of a Depressaria, fiying at 



dusk on a hill-side in Kent ; they may prove to bo either D. nanatella or a distinct 

 species. 



