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albicostella in plenty, and Lampronia luzella : Lithocolletis scopariella, JElacMsta 

 subobscurella, and Trifurcula immundella also turned up there, and at Barnes and 

 Wanstead ; and on oak trunks at this latter place I took a good series of Laverna 

 Stephensi ; Gelechia gerronella seems to be common wherever the furze grows : Gel. 

 pinguinella was scarce, but occurred in the old locality. In Regent's Park I took, as 

 usual, in plenty, Gel. notatella, Laverna vinolentella, Frays Curtisellus, Gel. 

 luculella, and albiceps, and a few G. leucatella. C. vittella swarmed both here and 

 in Hyde Park, where I also succeeded in securing five or six dozen Tinea caprimul- 

 gella. This insect is very lazy, very local, and fond of dark corners : it may often 

 be found hanging in cobwebs, where it remains perfectly still, apparently secure from 

 the attacks of spiders. (Ecophora augustella, which is generally dispersed, was 

 somewhat common at Wandsworth. 



From cocoons found in the cracks of oak trunks at Wanstead, I bred a good 

 series of Cerostoma alpella, and from larva? and pupa? on Convolvulus at Lewisham, 

 the same of JSedellia somnulentella. Other Tinece, of which I obtained a few, were* 

 Gel. velocella at Barnes, Gel. distincteUa at Sanderstead, El. Gleichenella, Bedellella 

 and stabilella, Pancalia Latreillella, and Stephensia Brunnichella at Boxhill, 

 Argyresthia mendica, curvella, and pygmceella at Pinner. The larva? of Cosmopteryx 

 Drurella occurred in profusion near Weybridge, and I now have a few small cases of 

 Nemotois Schiffermillerella from flowers of Ballota nigra collected at Grravesend: 

 so that as far as Tineina are concerned, I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the 

 past season. In Tortrices I have done very little : Dichrorampha sequana common 

 near Lady well Station and a beautiful Carpocapsa splendana at Croydon being the 

 only ones worth mentioning. 



Feeding on flowers and seeds of hemlock in Headly Lane, I got eight larva? of 

 an Eupithecia (of which seven were ichneumoned), green with a black head, of! 

 which I shall be glad to learn the name. — W. Waeeen, Park House, Stubbington, ( 

 Fareham, Hants : September 17th, 1880. 



Pyroderces argyrogrammos bred. — My friend Baron von Nolcken spent last 

 winter at Cannes and took home with him a number of pupa? of Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 Many of the perfect insects emerged during his journey from the South of Europe 

 to the coast of the Baltic, and were spoilt past recovery, but some fortunately 

 continued in the pupa state till he was settled at home, and then, when they 

 emerged, he was able to set out at his leisure in Russia, many of the little gems 

 whose home was in more sunny regions. Among the insects that he bred ratheri 

 freely was Pyroderces argyrogrammos. 



This insect, first taken in Asia Minor by Professor Loew, and described in thti 

 Isis of 1847, by Zeller, who mentions that he had also met with it in Sicily and near! 

 Rome, has since been noticed in many parts of Southern Europe and occurs likewise^ 

 in Hungary. 



Till I heard from Baron von Nolcken that he had been breeding this insect, ] 

 was not aware that its transformations had been detected. 



On writing to my friend for further details, he referred me to Milliere's 

 " Catalogue Raisonne des Lepidopteres des Alpes Maritimes," where at p. 359 he says' 

 of this insect "Mai, Cannes; terrains cretaces des lieux arides. Tres-abondante sui ; 

 les chardons a fieurs j amies (Carlina lanataj, dont les chenilles rongent les graines. 



