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Linum usitatissimum, as to the leaves and stalks ; but the 

 graceful little Avhite flowers do not at all resemble the flowers 

 of the flax." 



We have one species of Tltesiinn in the British Flora, T. 

 humifiisumy which occurs on chalky and limestone hills ; 

 many localities are given in Babington's Flora of Cambridge- 

 shire, and single localities are mentioned in Henslow's Suffolk 

 Flora and in Preston's Flora of Marlborough. To the 

 London Entomologist the localities given in Brewer's Flora 

 of Surrey may prove more interesting, and I therefore quote 

 them: — "Coulsdon; Banstead Downs; Sanderstead; abund- 

 ant on the grassy slopes in Norbury Pai-k, Mickleham ; and 

 on the right hand of the lane leading from Dorking to Ran 

 more Common ; Box Hill ; Ranmore Common ; Hog's 

 Back ; and Wanborough chalk-quarries." 



Possibly, if searched at the right time, Thesium humifusunif 

 might furnish us with the larva of the pretty OcJirvmolopis 

 ictella. 



^ Pliyllohrostis Daphiieella, Staudinger (Stett. Ent. Zeit. 

 1859, p. 257). When Dr. Staudinger brought specimens of 

 this insect from Spain in 1858, I had scarcely apprehended 

 it would prove interesting to English collectors ; but its oc- 

 currence in Bavaria leads me to hope that it may yet occur 

 further north. Moreover, as the larvae found by Dr. 

 Staudinger in Spain were feeding on Dapluie Gnkliumy and 

 those sent me by Herr Hofmann from Ratisbon were on 

 JDapIme Cneorum, it is quite possible that here we might 

 find it on one of our British species oi Daphne {Mezereum 

 or Laureola). When Dr. Staudinger described his Spanish 

 insects he was obliged to construct the new genus Pkyllohrostis 

 for the reception of the little Daphneella, which differs from 

 Bucculatrix in the want of an eye-cap at the basal joint of 

 the antennae, instead of which we observe a small tuft, very 



