AO THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
and more uncommon until it appeared to die out in its Loughton 
locality. Probably few, if any, collectors have spent so much time in 
searching for this moth as the writer. I beat out a single specimen 
from hornbeam on June 28th, 1885, another June 8th, 1886, and two 
more June 21st, 1890, one of them very worn. For twenty successive 
years I looked in vain for it. When living at Croydon (1901-9) I 
came ‘across here every June to search for hut always returned 
without leguminana ! I feel pretty sure that it is a tree feeder. The 
only likely leguminous plant growing in its Loughton locality is 
Lathyrus macrorrhizus, and that in very small quantity. I gathered 
all the seed pods I could find, but never found a trace of any larva 
therein. The late Mr. W. Warren, with whom I was in constant 
correspondence at that period, suggested the fruit of the hornbeam ; 
so a large quantity was gathered, and one Chimabacche fagella came 
out next season. This little moth has been burdened with four 
names: interruptana, Wilk., deflecana, H-S., leguminana, Zell., and 
dathyrana, Hub.; the last should be really used, being the oldest. 
The last two names are very suggestive of a pod feeder, but as no 
one seems to have bred it therefrom, I suspect that the authors, seeing 
a superficial resemblance to dorsana and orobana, jumped to the con- 
‘clusion that 2¢ was also a pod feeder! I am strongly of opinion that 
it is not so nearly related to the above-named as entomologists 
imagine. Perhaps Mr. Pierce may have an opportunity of examining 
the g genitalia one of these days.—A. THurnatL; Wanstead, 
January 7th, 1916. 
PHALONIA FLAVICILIANA.—Another good, and, I may add, very 
beautiful little tortrix. It is much more than ‘twenty years ago” 
since the late Mr. Warren first found it ‘in a valley in the downs 
near Sanderstead.” He first took the moth in July, 1886, and the 
next year, after having watched a worn 92 depositing her eggs in the 
Knautia heads in July (‘ Ent. Mo. Mag.,’ vol. xxiv, p. 88) found the 
larve freely the next month. Some of these larve he very kindly 
sent to me, together with a few of the almost equally beautiful 
Lithocolletis scabiosella, which came out end of September. Others 
went, through me, to Machin. I was not very successful with mine, 
only breeding ten specimens in 1888; these came straggling out 
between July 19th and August 16th. Machin did better, breeding 
seventeen. When living in the district I had many a hunt for both 
larva and imago, but never with any success. I found a fine bed of 
the food plant in a valley beyond Sanderstead (in Coulsden parish), 
but not a trace of the insect could I find in either stage. I think it 
is more widely distributed in the south and south-east thanisimagined, 
occurring in several counties, but is always apparently very local and 
confined to the chalk or nearly so.—A. THURNALL ; Wanstead. 
PLUSIA MONETA, ETC., IN NorroukK.—In 1912 this moth was 
recorded at Downham Market, twelve miles south of this town. In 
June last a number of cocoons were found in a garden here spun 
up in leaves of monkshood, from which most of the moths duly » 
emerged ; one or two moths were also captured on the wing. Cyaniris 
_argiolus, occasionally seen here, was numerous in the spring; the 
