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1 Lave now taken all the known British species of Micropteryu in this 

 neighbourhood. 



Nemotois cuprj,acella — In open woods, among low brushwood and flowers, but 

 generally flitting among, or settled on, dry grass or small birch bushes. 



N. minimella — In company with the last named, and with similar habits. One 

 female, however, I noticed on a flower of Stachys, and the males danced over 

 the bushes on sunny afternoons. Although Scabiosa succisa was plentiful, 

 I did not see either species about it. 



Yponomeuta plumbella and cognatella. — Both common in a lane where there are a 

 few spindle bushes. 



Ypsolopha sylvella, alpella, and lucelhi. — All these occur among oak bushes in the 

 woods. 



Psoricoptero gibbosella. — Rather common on oak trunks in August, but exceedingly 

 diflScult to see, on account of their similarity to the bark, arising from the 

 raised scales on the fore- wings. 



Oelechia senectella. — On hedge-banks in August, among dry grass. 



Qelechia similis. — I found several specimens in the windows of a house on one of 



the heaths. The people of the house believed that they were brought in with 



the "bavins" (faggots composed of hazel). 



(?. n. sp. ?. — A pretty species allied to niihneri, but with white ground colour 



a few specimens occurred on oak trunks. 



G. dodecella. — On fir trunks on the heaths. 



O. ligulella. — Flying in the sunshine among grass in marshy places. 



G. vorticella. — In damp places among furze. 



G. atrella. — Beaten from overhanging banks in the woods. 



G. bifractella, inopella, and paupella. — All bred from seeds of Inula dysenterica ; the 

 first in plenty. 



G. gemmella. — On oak trunks in August, sitting with its head raised, and, from its 

 colour, it looks curiously like a miniature of Anaitis plagiata. 



G. erictneJla.— Plentiful among heath. 



Anarsia spartiella. — Among furze on a boggy heath. 



PeritUa obscuripunctella. — Not uncommon among bushes under which honeysuckle 

 grows. It also flies sometimes in the sunshine. 



Tinagma sericeella. — As this species is abtmdant here, I have noticed its habits a 

 little, but cannot find that it has any great partiality for oak. It certainly is 

 equally common among birch and hawthorn, and even flies around, and settles 

 in abundance on furze in the woods. One day I saw it flying, by swarms, in and 

 around some small blackthorn bushes in a hedge. 



Colcophora (Vockeella. — Flying in the afternoon, among long grass in wood paths- 



Chauliodus Illigerella. — Damp places in woods, in June, and again in the beginninj^ 

 of September. 



Laverna, Raschkiella. — The larva of this species appears to feed up very rapidly, as 

 I have been almost too late for it two seasons in succession, although frequently 

 in its localities. I have, however, bred a few specimens. 



