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" Cleodora cytisella, rather common, flying among ferns as usnal. 



" QScophora quadripunda, rather common, beaten from overhanging tufts {Staf'we, 

 &c.), on a bank by a village. 



" Argyresthia Ooedartella, the rich golden varieties the commonest. 



" Gracilaria tringipennella, July 30th. 



" Elachista. [A rather imperfect specimen, but which certainly seems to me to 

 indicate some species as yet unknown to us. — H. T. S.]. 



" Chrysocorys festaliella, not only on Tresco, but on Tear, a rather small northern 

 island, but, from its hilly nature, capable of giving shelter." — -H. T. Stainton, 

 Mountsfield, Lewisliam : July 12tk, 1878. 



Habits of Gelechia gerronella, Z. — This insect had become proverbial for being 

 in poor and wasted condition, and it had, besides, a bad habit of occurring only 

 singly : judge, therefore, of my surprise when, on the 13th July, 1878, I dislodged 

 from a furze-bush, on the Common at Tunbridge Wells, a fine specimen of Gelechia 

 gerronella ; it was quite a startling apparition ! A week later I captured more than 

 twenty specimens in a single evening ; they were flying at dusk amongst the furze- 

 bushes between 7.45 and 8.30 p.m. ; about a third of them were in very decent condition. 

 The insect continued to occur up to the end of July, after which date the specimens 

 were too wasted to be worth setting. 



Mr. Machin had, however, been beforehand with me in taking. /ine specimens of 

 G. gerronella, and had actually bred the insect, without, however, having made the 

 acquaintance of the larva. His experience of the species was as follows : 



Early in June, he cut from the furze-bushes, at Wanstead, a number of the webs 

 of the larva; of Butalis grandipennis ; the insects began to emerge about the 20th 

 June, and continued to come out till about the 10th or 12th of July. Amongst the 

 large number of B. grandipennis which he reared, two specimens of Gelechia gerronella 

 made their appearance. On seeing these, he went, at the end of June, to (he place 

 where he had collected the larva, and beat from the furze-bushes ten very good speci- 

 mens of G. gerronella. — Id. : August 13t/i, 1878. 



Notes on Tineina bred in 1877 and 1878. — The larvee of Gelechia viscariclla were 

 very abundant in the tops of a Lychnis at Wyre, and in various localities near 

 Preston, during May, 1877 ; but this year they are almost entirely absent ; in this 

 following the example of their food-plant, which is very scarce where last year it 

 abounded. The perfect insects emerged in limited numbers during July, being very 

 much infested with ichneumons. 



On May 13th, 1877, I collected roots of sea plantain on the banks of the river 

 Wyre, for larvte of Gelechia i^istabilella, which mine in the roots, and, as far as 

 present observation goes, not in the leaf or stem. From these emerged about a 

 dozen imagos of G. instahilella in July, and, to my surprise, on June 30th, one 

 specimen of a little black Gelechia, unknown to me, which Mr. Stainton pronounces 

 to be probably immaculatella. Larvse found mining in the leaves of Aster tripolium, 

 and supposed to be also instabilclla, produced ocellatella ; thus giving another food- 

 plant, and even manner of feeding, to this insect. 



On the cliffs at Morecombe, where Genista tinctoria grows, larvre of Anarsia 

 genistwweve feeding in the shoots ; but this insect appears so like the common form, 



