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has been disputed, and as I only saw it for a short time I may have 

 been mistaken, but the occurrence of D. Lihanotidella in Ed gland 

 seems extremely probable, and were its food- plant, AtTiamanta {Seseli) 

 libanotis, searched Vll, Viii, in all likelihood the conspicuous, large 

 larva would be found. The plant is extremely local in this country, 

 but in Babington's Flora of Cambridgeshn-e we read — " In old chalk- 

 pits and by hedge-rows on both sides of the road from Hinton to the 

 Gogmagog Hills."] 



PsoEicoPTEEA GiBBOSELLA, Q^, 1G4, 1. e.v in oak leaves rolled up 

 lengthwise; 67> 19. 1- b-^^^i iii oak leaves rolled tubularly lengthwise, 

 at Haslemere; 1. very like the young I. of one of the common oak feed- 

 ing Tortricina, but more active and with the tremulous motion of the 

 head so common amongst 1. of the genus Gelecliia. 



Gelechia fereugella, 68, 18 (v. H.), I. e.v in pod-like or tubu- 

 larly united leaves of Campanula persicifolia. 



G. LUTATELLA, 64) 16-1, 1. cn Calamagrostis epigejos, b.vi ; i. Vil. 

 Lntatella has the apex of the ant. w. less produced, a distinct doubly - 

 angulated pale hinder fascia, two or three distinct spots on the disc and 

 fold, and post. w. much darker than in G. rvfescens; 65> 134, 1. m.vi 

 on C. epigejos at Meseritz, very like 1. of G. rvfescens, but slight 

 difference in markings of 5th and Gth segs. Arundo pliragmites 

 offered to these 1. was refused, — they preferred starving. 



G. LIXEOLELLA, 62j 1-5, ouc specimen beaten from amongst Calama- 

 grostis f/?i(7^*fl5, VI, near Meseritz; this was the plant on which Metzner 

 discovered the species, hence possibly the 1. feeds on that grass. 



G. HiPPOPHAELLA, Schrank (the hasalis of Douglas), 56, 51, bred 

 VIII, IX, from 1. in shoots of Hippopha'ts Rhamnoides, vii; 68, 19 

 (v, H.), 1. m.viii, m.ix, at Ragatz, on H. Rhamnoides ; 1. m.ix, 

 b.x. 



G. FLAVICOMELLA, 62, 128, bred from reddish 1. on sloe, at Ratisbon. 



G. VELOCELLA, 56, 51, 1. in silken tubes at the roots of Rumex 

 acetosella, vi. 



G. FUMATELLA, 61, 109, 6 Specimens captured on the sand hills near 

 Liverpool, b.vi. 



G. PINGUINELLA, Treitschkc, 65, 129, described ; occurrence near 

 London, on the trunks of poplars; 1. under the bark of poplar trees, V; 

 68, 138, 1. m.vi from the tree on which the i. were found in '65; full- 

 fed 1. found gregariously under the bark of poplar trees, but on what 



