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Lea valley ; I have also found it commonly in Wanstead Park and by 

 the river at Chelmsford. 



H. senillana, Dap. — A single specimen beaten from SalLv caprea 

 between Loughton and Epping is the only one I have taken in the 

 county. My series in the cabinet I took in Kent. 



Sjdkmota incarnatana, Hb., I have never met with, but the late Mr. 

 Machin used to take it rarely in Fairmead Bottom, Chingford, amongst 

 wild rose, and he also bred one specimen. This forest form is very 

 large and brightly coloured. 



S. triinaculana, Haw. — Common everywhere amongst hedgerows ; 

 the larva feeds in early summer in spun-together tips of whitethorn. 



S. roscBcolana, Dbl. — Not rare, but often overlooked from its re- 

 semblance to the above. May be beaten from its food-plant, wild 

 rose, and I have occasionally bred it from garden rose. Loughton, 

 Chingford, Woodford, Upminster, may be mentioned as localities for 

 this species. 



8. robovdiia, Tr. — Very often too common amongst cultivated roses, 

 clearing out the unexpanded flower bud, and is equally common 

 amongst the wild species. 



P. tripunctana, Fb. — Equally common amongst wild roses in nearly 

 every place where I have collected. 



Aspis xidmanniana, L. — Amongst its food-plant, bramble, the larva 

 may be collected freely, making a conspicuous bunch of the leaves by 

 spinning them together and pupating therein. 



Sideria achatana, Fb. — Fairly distributed amongst whitethorn ; the 

 larva, which in appearance and habits resembles RhodopJuca snavella, 

 spins two or three dead leaves to a twig of the food-plant, coming out 

 at dusk to feed. Loughton (commonly), near Upminster, Benfleet, &c. 



Sericoris bifasciaiia, Haw. — Used to occur freely on a Scotch fir 

 tree at Wanstead, but I have not seen it for several seasons ; the larva 

 was found feeding amongst the flowers early in June. 



S. littoralis Curt. — Common amongst thrift in the salt marshes. 

 Wakering, Thames Haven, Benfleet, &c. 



S. obscisana, D. L. — Very local, near Tilbury, amongst its food- 

 plant, Carduns arvensis. 



S. cespitana, Hb. — I have only met with this usually common 

 species on a rough, dry piece of waste ground near Upminster. 



8. rivulana, Scop. — The late Mr. Machin told me that he used to 

 take this species freely on one part of Wanstead Flats some forty years 

 ago ; it certainly does not occur there now, in fact, I have not seen a 

 specimen in Essex. 



8. urticans, Hb., and lacimana, Dup. — Both, of course, very abun- 

 dant everywhere ; the latter species is, I should say, about the 

 commonest British Tortrix. I have taken rarely, on the railway 

 bank near Harold Wood station, a beautiful reddish var. of the first 

 species, but have not seen it for some years now. 



" Mascotte," Whitehall Eoad, Thorton Heath : 

 October, 1901. 



(To be continued.) 



