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species of this genus. I have lately had a favourable opportunity 

 of comparing some of our British Pterophoridse with continental 

 types other than those I already possessed ; and among other 

 things I was convinced that the zetterstedti of our lists is not the 

 zetterstedti of Zell. In fact I question if Zeller's species has ever 

 occurred in this country. On the other hand, I believe that the 

 insect described by me (Entom. xv. 33) as zetterstedti, Zell., has 

 not as yet been observed on the Continent. Again, I should not 

 be greatly surprised if my tceniodactylus proved to be a form of 

 our ^se,udo-zetterstedti. At present the two insects appear 

 sufficiently distinct, but " breeding " may show that they are 

 only forms produced from identical larvge. The larva of 

 Platyptilia farfarella, Zell., burrows, I believe, in tbe tomentose 

 under sides of the leaves of Tiissilago farfara ; and I am inclined 

 to think that probably the plume-moth, bred from a larva found 

 feeding " in, or under, the woolly under sides of a coltsfoot leaf," 

 by Mr. Gregson, in Wales, and recorded in the 'Entomologist' 

 (Entom. vi. 427), and again referred to (Entom. xviii. 151), was 

 the farfarella of Zeller ; but whether farfarella is specifically 

 distinct from gonodactyla, Schiff., or is only a seasonal form 

 of that species, I am not prepared to say. In an early number 

 I will give H description of the imago of Platyptilia farfarella, Zell. 

 — Richard South ; 19, Abbey Gardens, London, N.W., May, 1885. 

 Epischnia farrella, Crambus alpinellus, &c., in Norfolk. 

 — Last year I took on our coast a fine series of Einschnia farrella. 

 The species was local, and apparently like many insects taken in 

 such situations it soon becomes worn ; and an eff'ort to procure 

 eggs from living females proved a failure. During the afternoon 

 of August 11th I disturbed from the grass on the sand-hills a 

 Crambus quite new to me ; and a second specimen was taken by 

 my brother on the same occasion. These, whilst on the setting- 

 boards, were recognised by Mr. W. Warren as Crambus alpinellus. 

 I may note here that in the same place C . fascelinellus was by no 

 means rare ; but the abnormal heat (the thermometer registering 

 93° F. in the shade) made entomological work on the sand-hills 

 well nigh intolerable. On the Gth of August I found Agdistes 

 bennettii so common in an adjoining salt-marsh, shortly before 

 dusk, that I boxed upwards of forty specimens, in, I believe, little 

 more than ten minutes. — Edward A. Atmore ; King's Lynn, 

 Norfolk, May 6, 1885. 



