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Although taken on ling both species will eat whinberry 

 (Vuccinimn myrlillus) quite as- freely in confinement. On 

 referring to my notes I find my first captures were made 

 May 20ih, viz. — three O. filigrammaria and sixteen L. caesiata. 

 My last and most successful attempt was on June 4th, when 

 my bag amounted to one hundred and forty-two O. filigram- 

 maria and thirty-six L. c^siata. Larentia didymata larvae 

 were very numerous along with the above, and equally 

 common feeding on whinberry. — R.Kay; Bury, Lancashire, 

 June9,\876. 



New British Tinea. — I forwarded a few Tinea insects to 

 Mr. Stainton to name, which he very obligingly did. Amongst 

 them was a Tinea anguslipennis, "an insect," to use his 

 own words, " very rare on the Continent, and unknown as 

 British." Also Tinea n. sp. ? " unless it is an aberration of 

 T. rusticella, which I do not believe, — //. (S." Both were 

 captured in the summer of 1874, amongst a wilderness 

 of weeds, near the Acton railway; since ploughed up — alas ! 

 T. angustipennis feeds on rotten wood ; size 5|- lines ; 

 prettily marked with black, orange, and purple, transversely ; 

 orange tuft on head. Tinea — ? 9 lines ; markings as nearly 

 as possible similar to Ferruginella. — Tliomas Sorrell ; Bolton 

 House Collegiate School, Turnham Green, Chisivick, May 

 16, 187G. 



Bees. — Bees seem very uncertain in their appearance ; in 

 some seasons certain species appear in numbers, and the 

 next season none, or next to none, are to be found anywhere. 

 Nomada Jacobeae abounded last year, whilst this year 1 did 

 not see a single specimen. Andrena Smithella was tolerably 

 abundant this year, and before*! had only taken a single 

 female. Bees are only to be found during the really fine 

 weather of spring, summer, and autumn, when the country is 

 in its loveliest state; and the situations they take one to are 

 the most attractive, — where the wild flowers bloom. Can 

 anything be more delightful than to find oneself in such a 

 place ? the air laden with the perfume of many flowers, and 

 alive with these industrious little creatures, many of them 

 humming over their work with as much variation in their 

 notes as there is in an Eolian harp (I say many of them, for 

 some are silent flyers). Their hum on such occasions as 

 these is the contented hum of a self-satisfied bee; but they 



