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OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH TINEINA. 



(Supplementary to the Insecta Britannica — Lepidop- 

 tera, Tineina ; and the Entomologist's Companion, 

 2nd Edition.) 



Diplodoma marginepunctella, I. B., p. 20. Two of the 

 curiously-clothed larvae of this insect have been sent me. 

 One by Mr. Parfitt, of Exeter, in August ; the other by 

 Mr. Scott, from Stockton, in September. Neither larva was 

 seen to eat, so that the food still remains a mystery. 



Ocksenheimeria Vacculella, I. B., p. 23. Again I have 

 taken this insect in the house. 



Lampronia prcelatella, I. B., p. 38. Mr. Wailes has 

 found the larva of this species feeding on Spircca ulmaria, 

 a new food plant for this singular larva. 



Lamprosetia VerhuelkUa, I. B., p. 39. I ascertained 

 when at Frankfort, that the young larvae of this species 

 mine the leaves of Asplenium ruta-muraria, afterwards 

 feeding in a case. 



Adela viridella, I. B., p. 50. Herr Krosmann, of 

 Hanover, gave me a bred specimen of this species ; the 

 case was found amongst fallen leaves in the spring. 



Semotois Scabiosellus, I. B., p. 52. Mr. Ashworth has 

 mentioned in the Zoologist, p. 4814, that he had " several 

 times seen the female of this species, with her abdomen 

 thrust down among the florets of the Scdblosa columbaria, 

 her wings lying expanded on the top of the flower," and has 

 lately sent me the following note: — " I again, this year, saw 



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