gEASOKAL NOTES ON TINEINA. Ill 



narrowing. This is to some extent (in the photograph) due to the 

 orientation of the process. The cornuti in the larger aedceagus are 

 smaller than those of palndis, except that they include one very large 

 broad spine very different from the rest. 



In the plate the upper figure is bunuasi, the lower, one of the 

 Asiatic paludis from Sajan, for comparison. On comparing these 

 figures with those in Mr. Burrow's paper in the Trans. Ent. Soc. it 

 must be remembered that the cedreagus is pi-esent in these, but 

 removed in the preparations from which Mr. Burrows' photographs 

 are taken. My photographs are by Mr. F. N. Clark. 



I propose to place the specimen in the British Museum. 



Seasonal notes on Tineina. 



By ALFRED SICH, F.E.S. 



Being absent from England till July 4th, in 1911, I missed all the 

 delightful species of Micro-lepidoptera which one sees, or hopes to 

 see, in the spring and early summer. I arrived home just in time to 

 secure two imagines of Coleoplwra jiotentillae, which had emerged in 

 one of my breeding pots. I had found the larvae on Fotentilla tor- 

 tnentilla, near Richmond, in July, 1910. In another pot one C. 

 therinella had emerged. The larva of this was taken off Cnicus 

 arvensia, in Chiswick, the previous autumn. On the other hand, the 

 eleven larv« of ' '. niveieostella, from eggs laid on thyme by a female 

 from Eastbourne (August l-lth, 1910), had unfortunately all perished 

 owing to the drying up of the plant. July 15th was spent at 

 Clandon in the pleasant company of other members of the South 

 London Society. The junipers yielded Artjijresthia abduminulis, as 

 they did on the same date in 1905. Swaininerdammiacaesiella occurred 

 amongst hawthorn, and it pleased me to find larvae of Antisfnla 

 pfeifferella mining m the leaves of dogwood. The holes they had 

 made in the leaves when they cut out their cases were quite con- 

 spicuous, as also were the large brownish mines, which still contained 

 larvffi. On an oak trunk at Richmond, July 19th, I found a moth I 

 could not recognise. It was PsoricupUra tjibbosella. So the next day 

 I revisited the locality and came back with four more. Four days 

 later, also at Richmand, when searching the trunks of some old 

 hawthorns, I found two specimens of t'erustonta scabrella. Of this 

 insect, one might say that it is exceedingly inconspicuous until one 

 does see it. On the same afternoon, among weeds, in a sunny spot, 

 one quite fresh IJta niaciUiferella was taken. I searched for further 

 examples, but in vain. Perhaps the species was not fully out. 

 During this month I found 'Tinea corticella less scarce than in other 

 years. It rests just like 1\ cloacella on the bark of trees. • On 

 August 8th I took a little white moth which did not fly quite like 

 Elachista argentella. When caught its large eyecaps proved it to be 

 an Uposte(fa, and it was salaciella. From time to time I take solitary 

 individuals of this species without being able to get any clue to the 

 larval habits. It would be of very great interest to obtain the larva 

 and pupa ; the latter would possess very large pupal eyecaps, and 

 might thus be recognised if found accidentally. Towards the end of 

 August Sttniilechia geminella was common hiding in the crevices of the 

 bark of oaks. In September I took two mines of Lipmetia derkella off' 



