OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 43 



B. NIGRICOMELLA, 56? ^^j ^- IV on Chrysanthemum lencanthemuvi. 



B. ciDARELLA, 56> 59, 1. VII on alder leaves; 57> 129, generally 

 abundant amongst alders; taken freely at Scarborough, and tracks of 

 1. plentiful at Beigate; 68) 43 (V. H.), 1, b.x gnawing blotches on the 

 underside of alder leaves; i.vi. 



B. Demaryella, 57, 129, I. on birch, viii. 



B. MARITIMA, 57, 129, 1. on Aster tripolium, V; 60, 146, 1. in pro- 

 fusion viil, in salt marshes, near the Taw below Barnstaple; the 

 cocoons generally on grass or rushes near the tip; 68, 44 (v. H.), 1. on 

 Aster tripolium at the salt works at Salzhausen b.vii, the young 1. 

 mines the leaves in narrow, expanding, slightly-curved galleries; casts 

 its skin under a flat, white cocoonet outside the mine, and then gnaws 

 externally the underside of the leaf; i. b.viii very variable in the 

 sharpness of the makings of the ant. w. 



B. BoYERELLA, 62, 139, 1. Collected near Frankfort-on-the-Main, 

 m.ix; 68, 45 (v. PL), 1. e.viii gnaws the leaves of elm; i. VI. 



B. HiPfoCASTANELLA, 57, 129, 1. ou a lime tree at Llangollen. 



B. CRISTATELLA, 58, 112, 1. V first mining and then gnawing ex- 

 ternally the leaves of yarrow {Achillea millefolium). 



B. ARTEMisiELLA, 70, 159, bred from 1. on yan'ow found vi at 

 Folkestone. Can the insect be an extreme aberration of B. cristatella ? 



B. FATIGATELLA, 68, 43 (v. H.), described ; captured near St. 

 Moritz, on larch, near Almis viridis; 3 i. bred from ribbed cocoons 

 found m.vii under stones on the Bernina, near Chrysanthem^ini 

 alpinum, which is doubtless the food of the 1. 



Nepticula pomella, Vaughan, 59, 157, allied to JSf. pygmaella, 

 but ant. w. broader and more purple; 1. makes orange-coloured blotch 

 mines in apple leaves, vii, and x, xi; i. V and Vlll. 



N. basiguttella, E. i\L M, iii. 82, mines of the 1. not scarce e.ix, 

 at Wilhelmsbad, near Frankfort-on-the-Main. Oak leaf once found in 

 this country apparently mined by the 1. of this species, the whole width 

 of the mine being entirely filled up with dark-green excrement. 



N. TiLi^, Frey, 60, 136; described; 1. in leaves of lime, near 

 Bristol, IX; i. bred V, vi. 



N. minusculella, 70, 159, occurrence near Exeter, and bred from 

 1. feeding in pear leaves Vill at Cheshunt; i. readily distinguished by 

 small size, pale-green colour and black head. Aucuparice, which 

 somewhat resembles it, has a yellow head. 



