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unknown on the Continent, though given to it by Curtis in 1850, as pointed out to 

 me by Mr. Stainton when I showed him specimens of the Stettin species. Curtis 

 described it in 1850 as Farrella in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 2nd Series, v, p. 114, 

 and Stainton places it in his Supp. Cat, of Tineidaa, 1851 (p. 1). I mention these 

 references in order that when the now imminent discovery of its entire natural 

 history comes to be published they may be duly utilized." 



In Kalteubach's " Pflanzenfeinde aus der Klasse der Insecten " 

 (of which the first portion appeared in 1872), we read (at p. 119), 

 under Anthyllis : 



" JEpischnia Lafauryella, Const, — Herr Miller discovered the larva of this 

 species in the flowers of Anthyllis vulneraria, in 1869." 



In the same year, 1872, Zeller in his " Beitrage zur Kenntniss 

 der nordamerikanischen Nachtfalter," which appeared in the " Yer- 

 handlungen der zoologiseh-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien," has 

 noticed of JEpischnia Farrella (p. 558), of which he records the 

 occurrence of a specimen in North America (at Beverly in Massachu- 

 setts) that 



" This species which appears to occur on all the Northern Coasts of Central 

 Europe, is found on the coast of Pomerania on Anthyllis vulneraria ; the larva is 

 most easily obtained after it has spun up a sand-ball for hibernation by passing the 

 sand through a sieve ; in the spring it spins an elongate cocoon, in which it changes 

 to the pupa-state." 



In 1880, we find a further notice in the Stettin, entom. Zeit., in a 

 paper on " Pomeranian Micro-Lepidoptera by F. O. Biittner, with 

 additions by Professor Hering and Dr. Schleich," here we read (at pp. 

 393, 394) : 



" Epischnia Farrella, Curt. (Lafauryella, Const., Ann. Soc. Fr., 1865).— The 

 perfect insect is often abundant from the middle of May to the end of June amongst 

 the sand-hills near Misdroy, a watering place on the Baltic Coast. The larva feeds 

 on Anthyllis vulneraria, is full-fed in September, when it descends below the 

 surface of the sand and spins a spherical ball, in which it passes the winter as larva. \ 

 The following spring it quits this hibernaculum and then spins an elongate cocoon 

 which in captivity is sometimes on the soil, sometimes in the corners of its cage 

 within this cocoon it assumes the pupa-state in about a fortnight, and in about I 

 three weeks the imago appears. In its habits and mode of life it wonderfully re 



sembles the larva of Gelechia malvella, Hub." 



.. 



It is not quite clear to me whether the three weeks begin to : 

 count after the pupa-state is assumed, but I should imagine that'Jt 

 would most probably be the case. 



As to the habits of Gelechia malvella, which have been given in 

 some detail by Fischer von Eoslerstamm in his " Abbildungen, etc." Jcli 

 (at p. 121), I may speak from personal experience. - 



