OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 7 



locality. [The question of the' distinctness oi Fastiiosella ^Vl^ Suh- 

 lyurpurella remains for the present unsolved, no specimens having been 

 yet bred in this country from hazel leaves; that a Micropteryx feeding 

 on hazel should be specifically distinct from one feeding on oak is 

 extremely probable; no Nepticnla or Litkocolletis is common both 

 to oak and hazel.] 



MlCROPTERYX, 63> 152, note on the pupa, of (with figure) wing 

 cases, legs and antennae are perfectly free from the body, the abdomen 

 being able to move away from them to a considerable extent. 



M. sp.?, 62. 125, a whitish 1. (described No. 10) b.v in birch leaves, 

 perhaps not distinct from Unimaculella (Nos. 8 and 9); species not 

 ascertained. 



M. sp.?, 62> 125, a grey 1. (described No. 11) V in birch leaves; 

 species not ascertained. [It may be here noticed that two of our 

 commonest birch species of this genus, Purpurella and SemiiJurjnirella, 

 have not yet been reared, and the grey 1. so conspicuously different 

 from all the other known 1. of the genus, should probably be referred 

 to one of those species.] 



SWAMMERDAMIA APICELLA, 58, 105, bred from 1. on plum, VIII ; 

 60, 111, bred from the red-spotted 1. on plum; 68, 16 (v. H.), 1. e.vi, 

 b.vil on sloe bushes, which are rather shaded, usually in small 

 societies, in a rather extensive delicate web, devouring the leaves which 

 are still young; i, e.iv, b.v. 



S. PRUNI, Stainton, 59, 150. [This was the name given to the 

 Grlseocapitella-like Stvavimerdamia reputed to have been bred from 

 the plum-feeding 1. of S. aincella. No doubt the 1. of S. apicella 

 died, and some other Smavwierdamia was introduced by accident into 

 the same receptacle.] 



S. GEISEOCAPITELLA, 58, 105, Something very like this bred from 1. 

 on plum. [Here there was some mistake, as the plum larva was that 

 of S. apicella.'] 



S. C>s:siELLA, 70, 3, considerable confusion existing as to this 

 common species, and probably some others of the genus. CcBsiella, 

 according to German Entomologists, has a white head, and the green 

 1. feeds on birch. In England the green birch-feeding 1. produce 

 Griseocapitella. Our Ccesiella feeds on hawthorn, probably also on 

 sloe, but 1. on sloe not yet found here. In Germany they breed another 

 species from hawthorn, with white head and grey thorax ; this they 



