164 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



During the past season a great number of new observations 

 on Tineina, both Continental and British, have come under 

 my notice; and were I to give only a glance at each of them 

 here this paper would be extended to a length somewhat 

 unreasonable, whilst the interest of detailed notices would 

 necessarily be lost. I have, therefore, preferred giving a 

 selection only of the more interesting of these observations, 

 and trust that by that means I shall give the greater satisfac- 

 tion to my readers. 



In the following pages the species not yet known to occur 

 in Britain are indicated by an *. 



3Iicropteryx Fastuosella. I was fortunate in finding the 

 larva of this insect at Manton Copse, near Marlborough, on 

 the 3rd of June last. But I was unfortunate in only finding 

 one larva, being just too late; for though many hazel leaves 

 were gathered by Mr. Preston and myself which had been 

 mined by the larva, and indeed quite recently mined, only 

 one single leaf was tenanted, and from that the larva crept 

 out within three hours of my picking the leaf! The proper 

 time for these larvae at Marlborough, which is a very back- 

 ward part of the country (from its high and exposed situa- 

 tion), would probably be from the 20th to the 27th of May. 



Psoricoptera Gihhosella. AVhen at Paris, in February, 

 I leai-nt that Colonel Goureau had bred this insect from 

 larvae, found May 31st in oak leaves, which were rolled up 

 lengthwise. 



*Gelechia Lutatella, Herrich-Schaffer. When at Frank- 

 fort I learnt from my worthy friend Herr Anton Schmid, 

 that the larva of G. Lutatella was extremely similar to that 

 of G. Rufescens. I was, therefore, the less surprised that 

 Professor Zeller, when I met him at Stettin, should endea- 

 vour to persuade me that Lutatella and Rufescens were 

 identical. The perfect insects are so different that it seems 



