THE BRITISH TINEIXA. 



spring, having apparently wintered in the withered tip of the 

 leaf; it is full fed in March, and almost immediately it 

 quits the mine it fixes itself in the angle of the leaf, and 

 changes to pupa; thus, by looking at the base of the leave* 

 which have been mined, the pupa may be readily collected. 

 It frequents those plants which grow in the shelter of 

 bushes: those among the junipers at Sanderstead Downs 

 are very prolific in this species. 



E. consortella, I. B., p. 256. I have met with this in 

 Headley Lane in July. 



E. pulchella, I. B., p. 256, proves to be the female of E. 

 obscurella, I. B., p. 257. Mr. Edleston's observations, he 

 having taken it, in company with both broods of obscurella, 

 show this; and last July I bred both insects from the same 

 larvae from Holcus and other grasses. 



E. zonariella, I. B., p. 257. Last August I bred se- 

 veral of this from larvae in Aira ccespitosa sent me by Mr- 

 Scott. 



E. gangabella, I. B., p. 258. Bred very freely last sum- 

 mer by Mr. Douglas and myself from larvae we found in 

 Dactylis glomerata near Beckenham. The larvae com- 

 mence feeding in the antumn, and make long puckered 

 mines (Lithocolletiform) in the grass leaves ; they pass the 

 winter without eating, inside the withered leaves, but in 

 March they again make fresh mines, and move readily from 

 leaf to leaf; they are full fed about the middle of April. 

 We found a few in Holcus mollis. The insect seems very 

 local, as, though so plentiful where we found them, it was 

 only for an extent of about 100 yards ; and, though Dactylic 

 abounded on both sides of this restricted locality, we found 

 none of this insect. 



E. Rhynchosporella, I. B. p. 259. I bred this last June 

 from larvae found mining down from the tops of the leaves 

 of Eleocharis, on Haldon, near Dawlish, last May. 



