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that a little bunch of covers for the legs exists close to the 

 head. It is not protruded from the case. Only a short time 



in pupa. 



This is our commonest species and is well known. The 

 male flies in a very lively manner in the morning sunshine, 

 and I have seen quite a gathering of the brisk little 

 blackish creatures dancing over a bank, close to an old 

 fence, at six o'clock a.m. There appears to be another 

 flight late in the afternoon, but probably this is not con 

 tinned throughout the day, and only occurs in the sunshine. 

 Formerly very common round London, and the cases readily 

 to be found on any old fence. Still common throughout 

 the South of England, the Eastern Counties and the Southern 

 Midlands ; becoming more local further north, yet found 

 in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and probably in suitable places 

 in every intermediate county. Kecorded from the West 

 of Scotland, though apparently scarce there. Certainly 

 common on the rocks at the Hill of Howth, near Dublin, 

 but very little noticed, or else absent, from other parts 

 of that country. Found all over the continent of Europe 

 except the extreme north and south. 



3. F. roboricolella, i^nta^if/.— Expanse \ inch. Fore 

 wings broad and very round, bronzy black. 



Antennee of the male, one-half the length of the fore 

 wings, stout but often much curved and twisted, pectinated 

 with slender teeth placed rather close together and moder- 

 ately oblique ; dark brown. Head, with the very slender 

 thorax and abdomen, blackish brown, with rather bronzy 

 closely-placed scales ; abdomen very slightly tufted. Fore 

 wings short and broad, very round behind ; costa arched, 

 apex and hind margin more than usually rounded ; dorsal 

 margin nearly straight ; thickly covered with rather glisten- 

 ing purplish-black or dark purple-brown scales, of which 

 the edges are slightly raised so that the wings do not look 

 so smooth as in the last species; cilia darker, produced 



