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I had failed to detect until too late. In 1886 I got but one larva, 

 which produced a female specimen in July, and the following year 

 I failed to get any. Unfortunately I did not visit the ground at 

 the right time for the imago in either of those years, but this year 

 I obtained one imago in June. My first example of T.piceana was 

 captured on the wing as it flew about the lower branches of a tall 

 pine-tree, and at the same time there were a number of small 

 moths flying high up and around one spot of this particular 

 tree. As well as I could judge these were similar in size and 

 shape, and appeared to fly in the same manner as the specimen 

 I captured, and I thought they were most likely T. piceana also; 

 but no other specimens came within my reach, so that I was unable 

 to verify my supposition. 



I remember once to have seen males of T. podana crowding 

 around and about the herbage in a hedgerow, under an oak tree. 

 On investigating the cause of this assemblage I found that 

 the attraction was a lady podana ; so that if any entomologist 

 should find larvae of T. piceana, and breed a female of that 

 species, it might be well to test her power of attracting the 

 opposite sex. Probably it will be found that the larvss of this 

 Tortrix feeds, as a rule, higher up the tree than is convenient for 

 work by the ordinary methods of searching and beating, and 

 it occurs to me that " sheeting " and "jarring" might be employed 

 with advantage. " Verbum sat sapienti." 



When Mr. Wilkinson wrote his 'British Tortrices ' (pub. 1859) 

 the claim of T. piceana to a place in our list rested on somewhat 

 slender data; and the author of the work referred to did not 

 describe the species, as he seems to have considered that at the 

 time there was some doubt as to the authenticity of the occurrence 

 of the species in Britain. After describing the ten species placed 

 by him in Stephens' genus Lozotcenia, Wilkinson appends a note 

 which it may be interesting to reprint here : — " Note. — Besides 

 the foregoing ten species, there is another {T ."piceana) , of which 

 a single specimen, a female, is said to have occurred in this 

 country at the New Forest many years ago ; it was originally in 

 the possession of Mr. Stone, from whom it passed into the 

 collection of Mr. Bently, and ultimately to that of Mr. Edwin 

 Shepherd, where it now is at present unique ; but as its claims 

 to rank as an indigenous species must be received with doubt, 

 it is merely mentioned here provisionally, lest hereafter it be 



