1866.] 57 
Mr. Hodgkiuson meets with these larvae the first week in June, at 
"Witherslack, in Westmoreland, on a high rocky situation amongst 
stunted thistles not above 8 or 9 inches high ; they must be no great 
rarity there, as in the season of 1864, Mr. Hodgkinson had 41 in the 
pupa state. The specimen forwarded to me, after being figured, duly 
entered the pupa state, and the moth appeared on the 2nd of July.* 
Gelechia desertella.—V^ hen at Bideford in May, 1865, I gathered 
some little pieces of moss on the sand hills at Northam Burrows ; on 
the 31st of May, I bred from amongst this moss a specimen of Gelechia 
desertella, and, on searching amongst the moss, I found a firm sand 
cocoon, in which the pupa must have been reposing when I collected 
the moss. 
Gelechia aleella. — Mr. Healy informs me that a friend of his has 
bred this species from larvae which fed in the moss growing at the root 
of an oak tree in the autumn. This insect is the Tinea scalella of 
Scopoli, whose name, by the law of priority, must supersede the 
Fabriciau name of aleella. 
(To he continued.') 
THE LEPIDOPTERA OF IRELAND. 
BY EDAVIN BIRCHALL. 
(Continued from page 37.) 
ACIKALIA INCANARIA — Coinmon. 
PBOMUTATA — Cork and Kerry ; common at Howth and 
Malahide. 
„ sUBSERiCEATA— Howth ; commou. 
,, iMMUTATA — Killarney ; do. 
„ RBMUTATA — Do., and Wicklow. 
EUMATA — "Widely distributed. 
„ iMiTARiA — Cork and Kerry. 
STRiGiLATA — Couuty Wicklow ; Mr. Bristow. 
„ ADVERSATA — Common. 
„ iNORNATA — Kingstown, Killarney. 
TiMANDRA AMATARiA — Galway and Kerry. 
Cabeba pusaria — Common everywhere. 
„ EXANTHEMARIA — Do. 
CoRTCiA TEMERATA — Killarney ; abundant. 
„ TAMINATA Do. do. 
Macaria notata — Do. do. 
„ LiTURATA — Widely distributed. 
* This year Mr. Hodgkinson has again kindly sent rae a sui)ply of the larva of this species. 
