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In the " Jahrbncher des Vereins fiir Naturkuude in Nassau," foI. xx, p. 404, the 

 late Dr. Eossler says of this species : — " The larvro are full-fed at the beginning of 

 August, in green pods of Astragalus glycyphyllos." As this plant is by no means a 

 common one, and not likely to be passed unnoticed by a collector, I wrote again to Mr. 

 JThompson, and received the satisfactory reply that at the place where he has taken 

 jthe imago, there does grow a plant " fi*om two to three feet high, like a large vetch 

 ior everlasting pea, which he has never observed anywhere else." 

 \ It would be well, therefore, for Micro-Lepidopterists, working in localities where 

 Ithis plant grows, to be on the look out for jjallifrontana towards the end of May, 

 !when the imago makes its appearance, and to examine the pods of the Astragalus, 

 in August, for larvae. — W. Waeeen, Merton Cottage, Cambridge : Feb. \Uh, 1887. 



Occurrence of another British example of Euzophera ohlitella, Z. — Some 13 or 

 14 years since, I captured in the Isle of Wight an obscure-looking knothorn, which, 



'after it had done duty for some time as a Sotnoeosotna, I at last came to the 

 conclusion must be oblitella, Z., and Mr. Stainton has lately, I am glad to say, 



(identified it as being that species. 



This example was taken on the side of the road leading from Yarmouth to 

 Freshwater, a little distance above Norton corner ; and, if my memory serves me 



[right, was at rest on a flower of Inula rf^*en<eric«, a plant which grows in great 



I profusion thereabouts. I am not aware that the larva is known, but it may be that 

 it feeds in the flowers or stems of Inula, as some of its congeners in those of rag- 

 wort. The other capture of this insect is recorded in the Entomologist, vol. xii, p. 

 16, as having been made also on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight, in 1876. 

 —Id. 



|. Gelechia semidecandrella Cn. sp.j.- — Last autumn but one, whilst inspecting 



Mr. Stainton's collection of Tineina, I was struck by the difference between his 

 specimens of Gelechia maeuliferella and my own. On arriving at home, I sent my 



, types to him, and lie replied that the two series unquestionably represented two 

 distinct species of insects. I have, therefore, named my species, Oelechia semidecan- 



! drella, from its food plant Cerastium semidecandrum. " The imago is very nearly 

 allied to maeuliferella, but is smaller and narrower winged, the pale hinder fascia is 

 less distinctly angulattd, sometimes appearing as two pale spots, which nearly meet 

 in a straight line. The basal portion of the wing is more distinctly marked, with a 

 basal spot on the costa, a spot a little away from the base below the subcostal nervure, 



■ and beneath that, slightly posterior, a spot on the inner margin." Such is 

 Mr. Stainton's description of the insect, conveyed to me in a letter, and I feel that I 

 cannot improve on so excellent an analysis, and so publish it in his own words. The 

 larva is yellow, with a black head, and feeds in shoots, flowers and seeds of the food 

 plant in April and May, the imago emerging late in June and July. — I. H. Theelfali, 

 Ashton, Preston : January 2'dth, 1887. 



[This new species {semidecandrella) is the insect which I bred in 1863 from larvee 



found in May on Cerastium semidecandrum at Mombach, near Frankfort on the Main, 



' by my friend Herr Anton Schmid. The specimen which I bred was figured in vol. x 



of the Natural History of the Tineina as G. maeuliferella, for I had not then dis- 



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