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its element ; Depressaria, 1, doubtful ; Cryptolecliia, above 60, I used to get a new 

 Cryptolechia almost every time I went out, so that the genus bids fair to rival the 

 original Gelechia, unless it also will bear sub-division ; Gelechia, the vai-ious species 

 of this group I have not not yet attempted to grapple with, but they number about 

 20; for the rest of the Gelechidce, there are undoubtedly many new genera, belonging 

 to the groups of Hypsolophus and Pleurota, but no species that accord with European 

 genera ; Sarpella, 2, very similar to forficella and bracteella, but half their size ; 

 Da.li/cera, 1 ; (Ecophora, about 30, showing great range of foi*m and colouring ; 

 Olyphipteryx, 5, most of them exceedingly handsome, especially one with yellow 

 hind- wings ; Laverna, 3 ; Stagmatophora, 2 brilliant species ; Stathmopoda, 2, and 

 also two extraordinary allied genera with the same habit of erecting the posterior-legs 

 in the air, one a beautiful coppery-red insect with plumose antennae, allied to Atkin- 

 sonia ; Cosmopteryx, one so exactly resembling Scrihaiella in every minute detail that 



1 see no distinction but the black ground-colour ; it frequents dry places, and the 

 larva probably feeds on a grass ; Batrachedra, 2 ; Heliozela, 1 ; Elachista, 3, one 

 very near nigrella ; Coleophora, 1, and also two forms of cases ; G-racilaria, 6 ; 

 Coriscium, 1, bred from leaf-mines on a PhyUanthus (a small tree belonging to the 

 Euphorbiacea) ; Ornix, 2 ; I may mention here that one typical Gracilaria, the 

 Coriscium very often, and a new genus between Coriscium and Ornix, stand on their 

 heads like Argyresthia ; Lithocolletis,none yet, perhaps owing to the season ; Lyonetia, 



2 ; Opostega, 1 ; Bucculatrix, 2, one bred from Eucalyptus, the larva and ribbed 

 cocoon resembling those of Eui'opean species ; Nepticula, 2, one bred from the 

 PhyUanthus, and also mines of other species. 



I will close this already too long account (omitting any notice of the many new 

 and curious genera) by mentioning three characteristic peculiarities of the Australian 

 Tineina. These are (11 the very great comparative frequency of yellow hind-wings, 

 which occur in at least five per cent, of the entire group, and are scattered indis- 

 criminately through the families, appearing even in the narrow winged Elachistidce ; 

 compai'e with this the fact that in England the proportion is 2 in about 700 : (2) the 

 unusually large proportion of rough woolly or tufted heads, occurring in all families, 

 but especially the Gelechidce, and making their boundaries unpleasantly vague : 

 ^3) the much increased number of larvae which form for themselves an efiicient shelter 

 by spinning a dense web in common, or tough silken galleries coated with excrement, 

 or even (as in Cryptophasa, and certainly also some smaller species) boring into wood 

 and closing the hole with a bari-icade of silk and refuse. The reason of this I believe 

 to be the superabundance of ants, which swarm in great variety on every tree and 

 plant, and wliich I have seen destroying unprotected larvae. The above generalisations, 

 which are certainly founded on fact, seem to me worthy of attention. — Edwaed 

 Meyeick, 243, Macquarie Street, Sydney : May, 1878. 



Captures of Lepidoptera at Bishop's Wood, near Selhy. — Amongst the captures 

 a few days' visit to Bishop's Wood, at Whitsuntide, produced, were the following 

 species, including larvae and images : Eurymene dolobraria, Tephrosia biundularia, 

 Asthena luteata, Eupisteria heparata, Melanthia albicillata, Cidaria silaceata, 

 Cymatophora dnplaris, Tethea siibtusa, Taniocampa populeti, Himera pennaria, 

 and Hyssia hispidaria. 



We also took Eupithecia lariciata at Brough, not uncommonly. There were 



