186 [Janunry. 



L. exigua in the Isle of Purbeck ; it flew out of a furze bush. I also met with 

 JShulea verhascalis, Pempelia genistella = Davi.iella, Newm., and (Ecophora lamb- 

 della at the same place ; and Aphalara artemisice in plenty on Artemisia absynthium 

 in the Isle of Portland during the months of August and September. The past has 

 been the worst season for collecting I hare ever known, and almost every species was 

 at least a month behind time. The middle of May arrived before I saw a single 

 butterfly, and Bibio Marci did not make its appearance before the 1st of June. 

 Etipithecia irriguata was out as late as June 10th ; 8. Hyperanthus as late as Sep- 

 tember 8th ; and S. Tithonus as late as the 22nd of September ; but I was the more 

 astonished at meeting with L. Adonis and Corydon on the 2nd of October at Dover. 

 — C. W. Dale, Glanville's Wootton : December 15th, 1879. 



Food-plants of Tortricodes tortricella. — Twice have I reared this insect from a 

 lot of larvffi collected in the busy season of July, and which, through press of occu- 

 pation, had not been overhauled. Some twenty years since I bred two males from 

 larvae on lime, and in 1877 I bred a ? from oak. — J. E. Fletcher, Happy Laud, 

 Worcester: Decembe>; 1879. 



Occurrence of Tischeria gaunacella in Essex, a species vnrecorded as British. 

 — In the month of May, 1878, I bred three specimens of this insect from sloe-leaves 

 collected the previous October, somewhere in this neighbourhood. I was not aware 

 until quite recently of the rarity of the insect I had bred. Whilst collecting some 

 mines of Lithocolletis spinicolella, I observed some peculiar brownish blotches on 

 some of the sloe-leaves, having a tendency to turn up the edges of the leaves. I 

 could not, however, recognise the larva forming the blotch, nor could I ascertain 

 from the works at my command what it was. I believed it to be a Tischeria. I 

 therefore kept the leaves with the L. spinicolella mines, trusting to be able to breed 

 one or two of them in the following spring, and thus identify them. The mines 

 were stowed away during the winter in a glass bottle, tightly corked, and placed in a 

 large tin box in the garden. They were brought indoors on the 27th April, 1878, 

 and then kept in a room without a fire ; no forcing was applied in any way. I very 

 much regret now that I made no sufilcient note of the precise locality where I found 

 the leaves containing the blotches, as T understand that some of the species of Tis- 

 cheria are extremely local, and will occur in plenty in one lane and nowhere else in 

 the neighbourhood. The reason I had not ascertained the name of the insect until 

 recently arose from the fact that I was unable from pressure of other matters to 

 give much time to entomology during the season of 1878, the consequence 

 being I had at the end of that season only two or three little things that I was un- 

 acquainted with, and these I retained, trusting to do something more in 1879, and 

 then get ray 1878 captures identified.— W. D. Cansdale, 4, Gruithavon-terrace 

 Witham, Essex : December I7th, 1879. 



Trifurcula p all id el la ; a species new to Britain. — During the last week in 

 August, whilst sweeping for Ochsenheimeria bisontella near my country house at 

 Dutton, near Ribchester, I swept a small pale yellow moth, which I saw at first 

 glance was not Elachista subochreella, in fact I caught it twice over, as it was so diffi- 

 cult to see it in a white net ; when I got home and pinned it I saw its woolly head, 



