8 LEPIDOPTEEA. 



name Oxyacantliella ; if this occurs in England it is probably reputed 

 the $ of our hawthorn-feeding Cas'iella. 



S. NANIVORA, Stainton, n. sp. (sp. ?), 70, 4, a 1. m.ix on Betnla 

 ■nana, which appeared very different from the 1. of S. griseocapitella, 

 found at Strathglass, Invernesshire ; 71, 96, a single i. bred from the 

 above 1. ; differential characters pointed out, 



S. CONSPERSELLA, Tengstrom, 68, 155, 1. VI on crowbeny {Em- 

 lietrum nigrumi) in the Island of Oesel ; it forms a web with fine white 

 threads, in the midst of which it spins its cocoon. 



SCYTHROPIA CRAT^GELLA, 57, 1^3, nest found VI; the angular 

 pupa is suspended, quite exposed in the common web. 



Hyponomeuta vigintipunctatus, 57, 123, i. at Guildford v and 

 VIII ; 1. X on Sedum telepMum at Guildford ; 58, 105, bred freely 

 from 1. collected at Guildford last autumn and this summer; 61, 108, 

 occm-rence at Witham in Essex and in Sussex. 



H. PLUMBELLUS, 55, 52 (74), 1. when young iv eats the pith of the 

 young shoots of spindle, causing their tips to droop; afterwards emerges 

 and eats the leaves. 



H. RORELLUS, 70, 4, 1. gregarious on Salix alba at Munich. 



H. EGREGIELLA, 67, 17, 1. b.lll on Erica scoparia at Cannes, not 

 exactly gregarious, but generally several on one plant ; i. m.iv, b.v ; 

 68, 135, 1. jDlentiful on E, scoparia at Cannes, b.iil, and still more 

 abundant on E. cinerea, b.iv at Eontainebleau. 



Anesychia funerella, 57, 123, 1. on comfrey {Syviphytum 

 officinale'), also on Litliospermum officinale ; 58, 105, 1. on comfrey 

 near Cambridge, b.viii. 



Chalybe (Psecadia) pyrausta, 68, 153, 1, on TJialtctruvi 

 aquilegifolium, vii, viii, in the Island of Oesel; i. e.lV to m.V; flies 

 of its own accord in the midday sun ; 70, 4, bred m.iv from pupa 

 received from the Island of Oesel ; a plant of Tlialictrum aquilegi- 

 folhim was offered to the insects that they might oviposit thereon, but 

 no fertile eggs laid. 



Prays Curtisellus, 55, 52 (74), 1. which, when young, mine the 

 leaves x, then enter the young buds and feed on the inner bark during 

 the winter. 



P. OLEELLUS, 67, 18, congeneric with Prays Curtisellus ; 1. at 

 first a leaf miner b.iii, then e.iii eating down the stems of the 

 young shoots ; cocoon slender, open, very similar to the open cocoon of 



