72 [August, 1884. 



" I have not been to Misdroy,tlie weather has been too unpropitious 

 This is also probably the reason why Dr. "Wocke, who had intended i 

 stay there till the end of the month, came back on the 23rd, He has 

 in accordance with my request, forwarded some Kinkerella larvsB t 

 Schulz, and the latter has figured them. 



" Eiittner has found the larvae not only at Misdroy, but also a 

 Swinemiinde, and at the latter place in such plenty, that he has give: 

 some to Professor Hering and to me. I would venture to bet tha 

 this species will also be found in England. It certainly occurs on a. 

 the sandy coasts of the Baltic and North Sea, where its food-plai] 

 AmmopJiila arenaria (Arundo arenaria, L.) grows. Since the larv 

 hibernates in a slight cocoon on the stems and leaves, it would b 

 possible to find it in England even before the end of the present yea: 

 Expecting, as I do, to breed the insect, or if unsuccessful in doing S( 

 that I shall yet receive it from others, I am forwarding to you ne3 

 week my solitary specimen." 



Professor Zeller, writing on the 10th September, 1882, said : 

 "A w^eek ago Dr. Wocke passed through Stettin on his way ^| 

 Misdroy, where he hopes to cure his asthma. He will principal 

 collect larvae of Eupithecia and larvae of Kinkerella. He has not y 

 been favoured with much good weather." 



His next letter, on the 4th October, 1882, reports : 

 "Dr. Wocke, on account of his asthma, remained a month 

 Misdroy, where he had not only the pleasure of being well bitten l' 

 the numerous gnats and sand-fiies, but he also collected a considerah 

 number of larvae and pupae. Of his larvae the most important in d 

 eyes are those of Kinkerella, of which he has collected about 180, as 

 he hopes to bring them safely through the winter by sprinkling the 

 from time to time with salt-water." 



The notice of Bactylota Kinkerella given by P. C. T. Snellen 

 the 19th volume (1876) of the "Tijdschrift voor Entomologie" m 

 be translated thus : 



" Some years ago Heer J. Kinker of Amsterdam, a zealous ai 

 careful Entomologist, submitted to me, to Heer de Grraaf and others' 

 curious little moth taken near Noordwijk, which, from the greyish- whl 

 anterior-wings finely sprinkled with darker scales, would seem, at 

 sight, related to JSlachista rufocinerea, till a closer examination sho 

 that from the form of the posterior-wings it belonged to the Gelechia 

 Heer de Graaf at once suggested that a new genus should be form 



