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the tree-trunk drying their wings from four till half-past 

 eight, or until it is quite dusk. 



Ephesiia elutella. Hub. — Mr. W. Buckler records having 

 bredt his species from larvae feeding on dog biscuit and an 

 old cloth coat. They feed through the winter, change to a 

 pupa in March or April, and the perfect insect emerges 

 in the early part of July. Mr. Buckler fully describes the 

 larva and its habits (E. M. M. x. 213). 



E. artemisiella, Steph. — Has occurred sparingly in South 

 Wales, in 1876. 



Cryptohlabes bistriga, Haw. — Specimens were taken at 

 Folkestone last season. 



Gymnancycla canella, W. V. — Several specimens of this 

 insect have been bred from larva collected on the coast, 

 feeding in the stems of Salsola kali. Most of the imagos 

 emerged the following spring; but some remained in the 

 pupa state until the second season. 



Phycis heiulella^ Goetz. — Has been taken in 1876, at West 

 Wickham and Folkestone. 



Pempelia genistella, Dup., = davisellus, Newman. — This 

 species appears to have been described several times before 

 it was named by the late Mr. Newman, in honour of its 

 discoverer in England. The late Mr. Doubleday (Entom. 

 viii. 41) mentions having sent specimens to Dr. Staudinger, 

 who returned them as being without doubt the Nephopteryx 

 genistella of Diiponchel. Herrich-Schaffer next described 

 and figured it as Ulicella, fvom specimens taken in Andalusia. 

 Mr. Doubleday — having sent a type to Professor Zeller, to 

 whom it was unknown — described it for the third time as 

 Albiliniella, in the Slett.-e-Zeit., 1859, p. 223. In order to 

 place our nomenclature as much in accord as possible with 

 the continental lists Duponchel's name must be adopted, 

 and the synonymy will stand thus: — 

 Genistella, Dup. 

 Ulicella, Herr.-Sch. 

 Albiliniella, Doub. 

 Davisellus, Newman. 

 An account of its life-history is published in the 'Ento- 

 mologist' (Entom. vii. 132) by Mr. Moncreaff, who also 

 states that the imago is figured in Morris's ' British Moths' 

 as P. palumhella, with which I am unable to agree. In his 



