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were supposed to be those of Bofys Jlavalis. " My disappointment " 

 wrote Mr. Buckler " was very great, when I very soon saw there was 

 no hope of their hemg Jlavalis, and I thought I had got hold of some 

 troublesome Tortrix'' The " troublesome TorfW^r," however, turned 

 out a Depressaria, and one which had not previously been bred. The 

 larvae in question had been found by Mr. Pletcher on Freshwater 

 Down, Isle of Wight, feeding on the leaves of Hypochwris radicata. 



The sight of the single specim.en which first reached me did not 

 enable me to determine the species with certainty. I wrote, however, 

 to Mr. Buckler on the 23rd September, 1883, as follows :— 



" I believe your De^jresmria is one that has not been bred before, 

 and, certainly, no larva of that genus was known to feed on R}jpocli(Bris, 

 so at any rate there is a discovery, which may help to cousole you for 

 your disappointment. Indeed, if every one of your disappointments 

 could result in similar discoveries, I should be malicious enough to wish 

 you many of them! Before positively determining the species, I 

 should like to see your other specimens, especially as you say they are 

 not all exactly alike." 



K week later, I received from Mr. Buckler his other three bred 

 specimens, and I must confess that my first impression was that they 

 were some unnamed species, which, though closely allied to badiella, 

 differed from it in the shape of the anterior wiugs. 



Two years previously Mr. Sydney Webb had sent me some speci- 

 mens of a Depressaria he had beaten from thatch at Folkestone, which 

 I had then thought as probably distinct from badiella, and it occurred 

 to me that possibly the insect now bred by Mr. Buckler might be the 

 solution of Mr. Webb's problematical species. Moreover, I gathered 

 from Mr. Buckler's letters that Mr. Fletcher had also succeeded in 

 breeding several specimens of the same insect, hence, I wrote to Mr. 

 Buckler on the 30th September, 1883, " before describing the insect 

 you have bred, I should like to see again Mr. Webb's specimens, and 

 also any that Mr. Fletcher may have bred." 



Mr. Fletcher being then from home I did not write to him at once, 

 and being much occupied with other matters, Christmas was already 

 past before I wrote to Mr. Sydney Webb and to Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher 

 for their specimens of the hadiella-\ike Depressaria. They came 

 promptly enough, but, alas, before I could get them examined Mr. 

 Buckler was no more ! 



Ultimately I came to the conclusion that the specimens were really 

 referable to badiella, of which we had previously only known captured 

 specimens, which were more or less worn. 



