OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH TINEINA. 53 



alarm, so that they are most easily obtained by beating the 

 sloe bushes where thev occur. The larva is yellowish-grey. 

 the head reddish-ochreous, the second segment pale ochreous, 

 the ordinary spots small and black ; it is very lively, with a 

 tremulous motion of the anterior segments. 



Aplota palpella, I. B., p. 147. When at Hanover, Herr 

 Krossman gave me a specimen of the continental Balucella 

 (which we hold synonymous with Haworth's Palpella); it 

 was twice the size of our specimens — but he assured me it 

 varied in size, from quite small to those unusual dimensions. 

 This specimen lie had bred from rotten wood! ! 



Nothris Durdhamella, I. B., p. 148. This insect is the 

 solution of Enigma No. 13 (Ent. Annual, 1st Edit. p. 64; 

 2nd Edit. p. 86) ; " the black and white larva, not unlike 

 that of Gelechia rufescens" was found by Mr. Harding at 

 Deal, on the Origanum vulgare, at the end of June. The 

 habit of this larva we quoted last year in our " Observations 

 on the British Tineina." 



Sophronia humerella, I. B., p. 150. Herr, Schmid in- 

 forms me that the larva of this species feeds on Gnaphalium 

 arenarium ; this plant is not British, but Mr. Babington 

 suggests " that any of our species of Gnaphalium or Filago 

 would do in the place of G. arenariiun, especially the Filago 

 Germanic a ." 



(Ecophora augustella, I. B., p. 158. Herr Schmid notices 

 of this, " the larva certainly in rotten wood." 



(Ecophora grandis, I. B., p. 159. In the Zoologist, p. 

 4814, Mr. Ashworth gives the following notes of its habits: 

 " Not uncommon in the end of May and June, in one fence 

 composed of a mixture of dead and living hazel and birch. 

 They fly only in warm sunshine from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m..; 

 when the sun is off the fence they cannot be made to fly. I 

 think they secrete themselves in dead leaves on the ground, 

 thev so soon become worn." 



