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tioned have either disappeared or been r.trictly enclosed, 

 there has been little opportunity for searching for it. ^ In 

 an excursion of the South London Entomological Society 

 this year (1894) cases were observed in the Eeigate district, 

 Surrey, and if the wooded hills on either side of the Thames 

 Valley were carefully examined the insect would almost cer- 

 tainly be rediscovered. Other records exist for Northampton- 

 shire, Herefordshire, North Lancashire, and the neighbour- 

 hood of Darlington, and there is little doubt that it is more 

 widely distributed in this country than has hitherto been 

 noted. Abroad it is found in Holland, Belgium, France, 

 and Germany. 



If this species is really the Hirsutella of Htibner the name 

 is singularly ill-applied, since it is one of the smoothest species 

 in a very hairy group ! 



2. E. pulla, E»iJ. ; radiella, C?ir^.— Expanse of male ^ 

 inch. Wings rounded, sooty-black, hairy ; body very 

 small. 



Antennse of the male rather short, curved downward, with 

 long pectinations which are set far apart and slightly curved 

 back ; blackish-brown. Thorax and abdomen slender, shining 

 black, thinly covered with brownish-black hair-scales. Fore 

 wings broad from the base, ovate, with margins and apex all 

 much rounded ; semi-transparent, with the whole surface 

 rather thickly covered with upraised smoky-black hairs or hair- 

 scales, which give it a dull, shaggy appearance; blackest 

 towards the base and round the margins. Nervures only 

 faintly visible ; cilia long, black, extending round the apex 

 almost to the middle of the costal margin. Hind wings 

 rounded, similarly covered with black hairs; cilia long, dense, 

 black. Underside similar to the upper, but more thinly 

 clothed with hair-scales, consequently more shining; cilia 

 dense and black; legs blackish. 



Female ^ inch in length, short and thick, maggot-like ; 



