SUMMARY OF miciio*lepidoptp:ka, 1874 — 1876. 91 



hundreds dead on the water, and numbers clinging to weeds 

 and blades of grass, or hiding under stones near the water's 

 edge. The life-history is given in E. M. M. xii. 257. Mr. 

 Dunning has also contributed a very valuable paper on the 

 nomenclature of this insect to the Entomological Society. 



Botys nuhilalis, Hub. = B. lupulinalis, Gn. — Mr. C. G. 

 Barrett records the capture in July, 1874, of an insect which 

 was unknown to him, on a window in the south of London. 

 On forwarding it to Professor Zeller, he returned it as this 

 species. Mr. Barrett's specimen is of a pale fuscous, a form 

 not uncommon on the Continent; and his capture adds 

 another to the few instances of the occurrence of this 

 species in this country. 



B. lancealis, W. V. — We are again indebted to Mr. W. 

 Buckler for a description of the larva of this insect. He 

 gives a detailed account of its habits in vol. xii. of E. M. M. 

 The larva feeds in a web amongst the leaves of hemp- 

 agrimony {Eupatorium cannahinum) in August and Sep- 

 tember. When full fed it spins a cocoon, within which it 

 hybernates and changes to a pupa early in the following 

 May ; and the moth emerges at the end of the same month, 

 or beginning of June. 



B. terrealis, Tr. — Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson records having 

 bred this species in 1874, from larvae feeding on golden-rod 

 {Solidago virgaurea) , in the previous September. Mr. G. 

 T. Porritt also gives a description of the larva in this 

 magazine for last year. 



Ebulea stachydalis, Zinc. 



PAEIETARIALIS, Mami. 



This interesting species was added to the British fauna 

 in June, 1875, by Mr. C. G. Barrett, who discovered it in the 

 neighbourhood of Pembroke. Mr. Barrett has since taken 

 several specimens ; and the species is fully described, and 

 its synonymic history given by him (E. M. M. xii. 158). 

 Subsequently Mr. Bond, at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Society in April, 1876, exhibited a specimen taken by 

 himself at Kingsbury, Middlesex, in Juue, 1862. Mr. 

 Buckler likewise gives a good description of the larva 

 (E. M. M. xiii. 133). 



Pionea exiiinalis, Scop. = P. margarilalis, Fab., W. V. 

 — A specimen is recorded by Mr. Pratt, from his garden at 



