SUMMARY OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 1874 — 187fi. 89 



The same author speaks oT Megastigmus Bohemanni {L e., 

 dorsalis, Fabr.) as a parasite — this also on the authority of 

 Tischbein — but it needs confirmation. On the 20th and 

 2-2nd April, 1875, I bred two parasites from these galls, 

 which cannot be referred to any of the above ; they belong, I 

 believe, to one of the numerous genera of Pteromalidce, but 

 I have as yet been unable to identify them. Pleurolropis 

 sosarmus may be bred from these galls in some numbers from 

 the end of April to May, as well as from N. numismatis.* — 

 E. A. Fitch. 



NEW AND RARE MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA OBSERVED 

 DURING THE YEARS 1874, 1875, 1876. 



By Walter P. Weston. 



PYKALIDES. 



Odoniia denialis, W. V. — Occurred freely at Folkestone 

 among viper's bugloss [Echium vulgare). The more inac- 

 cessible the place n'here the bugloss grows, the greater the 

 chance of finding Dentalis. 



Aglossa pingiiinalis, Linn., var. Streatjieldii, Curt. — A 

 specimen of this rare variety was taken on August 18th, 1875, 

 by Mr. C. A. Briggs, in an empty room in a house at 

 Teddington. 



A. cuprealis, Hub. — Dr. Baltershell Gill had the good 

 fortune to find this species in an old flour-mill near Cambridge. 

 Mr. Thurnall also records it from Whittlesford, in the same 

 county. 



Pyrauala punicealis, W. V. — The E,ev. J. Hellins (E. M. 

 M. xi. 66) records the breeding of this species from larvae 

 feeding on catmint {Nepeta cataria). He gives a full 

 description of the larva and of its mode of feeding. 



Agrolera nemoralis, Scop. — Occurred in East Sussex in 

 great abundance. Mr. W. H. Tugwell records its capture 



* Mr. G. B. Rothera's record is as follows: — March 6th, 1874, one huudred 

 aviA. eight Neuroterus lenticularis ; 7th, one hundred and sixty-four and one 

 hundred and twenty-two N . lenticularis ; 28th, two Callimome {? male and 

 female). April 9th, one Callimome (? female); 12th, one Callimome (? female). 

 May 4th, twenty-nine Pleurolropis sosarmus; 10th, flil'ty-six P. sosarmus. 

 The TorymidcB specimens may be C.hybernans, Mayr; but they were difficult 

 to determine with any certaintv. There is again an absence of Synergi. — 

 E. A. F. 



