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NOTE ON EVETRIA (RETINIA) BUOLIANA, Scutrr., 
anD E. PINICOLANA, Dsup. 
By Evstace R. Banxess, M.A., F.E.S., &e. 
In the Editorial review [Entom. xli. 255-256 (1908)] of Mr. 
A. J. Gillanders’ ‘Forest Entomology’ we read, on p. 256, 
‘The species represented on p. 269, fig. 256, is certainly Retinia 
buoliana, but moths bred from larve feeding in the leading 
shoots of Scots pine, as illustrated (fig. 255), are usually R. pint- 
colana....” This latter assertion is perhaps true of certain 
districts, but it would be interesting to learn what evidence can 
be adduced in support of it as a general statement. At different 
times I have collected, in various localities in Hast Dorset and 
West Hants, large numbers of Evetria larve feeding in the 
leading shoots of Scots pine, precisely as shown in the illustra- 
tion (fig. 255) in question, and have reared scores of imagines 
from them, every one of which, with the exception of a single 
pinicolana bred from among some Ringwood larve, has been refer- 
able to buoliana. Wherever plantations of Scots pine are found 
in this part of the country, buoliana seems to be either common 
or abundant, whereas pinicolana is so exceedingly local that a 
spot in the Isle of Purbeck, where I discovered it in 1901, is 
still its only known Dorset habitat except for one which has 
yielded a solitary individual. Moreover, even where the two 
species occur together, buoliana is, in my experience, by far the 
more plentiful, and this is the case in all districts about which I 
have definite information, though it will be sufficient to quote 
from only the three authors first to hand. In the course of his 
valuable notes on “ The Tortrices of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex,” 
the late Mr. Walter P. Weston wrote in Entom. xiii. 160 (1880), 
“ Retinia buoliana, Schiff—Common among various kinds of 
HESe <3 5 It occurs throughout these counties. Retinia pini- 
colana, Dbld.—Of similar habits to the preceding species, but 
much scarcer. .... It has occurred at Tunbridge Wells, 
Dartford; Hastings, Uckfield, Tilgate Forest ; Croydon, West 
Wickham.” In the. catalogue of Lepidoptera published in the 
‘Victoria History of Hampshire,’ the notices of these species 
‘were from the pen of Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, and run as 
follows: ‘‘ Retinia buoliana. Abundant in plantations of young 
Scotch firs in New Forest. Retinia pinicolana. less common 
by far than the preceding in New Forest.” Again, Mr. A. 
Thurnall, in his “ List of Tortrices taken in South Hssex 
between 1885 and 1901,” published in Entom. xxxv. (1902), 
sums up his experience as follows, on p.191: ‘‘ Retinia buohana, 
Schiff.—Very common wherever Pinus sylvestris grows, ... . 
R. pinicolana, Doubl.—Much rarer than the last species ; singly 
ENTOM.—JUNE, 1909. N 
