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OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH TINEINA. 



(Supplementary to the Insecta Britannica — Lepidop- 

 tera, Tixeina; and the Entomologist's Companion, 



2nd Edition.) 



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Exapate gelatella, I. B., p. 12. Mr. T. Wilkinson met 

 the larva of this species between united leaves of willow in 

 July, 1850, near Bristol. 



Tinea rusticella, I B., p. 27. " The larva," writes Mr. T. 

 Wilkinson, " feeds on old carpet as well as rotten wood. In 

 a cellar I found a piece of half-rotten carpet, on which a great 

 many moths were sitting, some of them just in the act of 

 drying their wings, and scores of empty pupa-cases pro- 

 truding from the old carpet." 



Tinea fulvimitrella, I. B., p. 27. Mr. Edleston says of 

 this, " the larva feeds under the dead bark of beech and oak, 

 round the hole where the ' frass' comes out." 



Tinea corticella, I. B., p. 30. Mr. Edleston finds the 

 larva of this species under the bark in dead oaks, and also 

 in the rotten wood when the bark is taken off. 



Tinea Caprimulgella, I. B., p. 32. Of this rare species 

 Mr. Tompkins met with a specimen on an oak tree in Hyde 

 Park, at the end of June (Int. 156). 



Tinea misella, I. B., p. 33. Of this Mr. C. S. Gregson 

 writes, " I have bred it from unthrashed wheat this year; it 

 made up in the head and fed upon the grain. I formerly 

 bred it from the interior of bean stalks, for seeing the pupa- 



