78 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
it was very important. The hind wing is generally paler, and 
has a band or shade of dark grey running parallel to hind and 
inner margins, which is not usual in the Crambide. 
I shall feel particularly indebted for specimens of Crambus 
contaminellus from any other British station, and would do all I 
can in return for the favour. 
6, Lewisham Road, Greenwich, March 8, 1886. 
TINEA TAKEN NEAR CAMBRIDGE. 
By Witiiam FARREN. 
Tne following is a list of the Tinee taken by my son, 
A. W. Farren, and myself around Cambridge, unless otherwise 
specially mentioned, during the past season. Our range of 
locality near home is really very limited, though not to that, but 
to the continued strong easterly winds which prevailed all summer, 
must be attributed the absence of several rarities we ought to 
have captured. 
Diurnea fagella, at lamps; dark fuscous gray varieties. 
Epigraphia steinkellneriana, scarce; bred and beaten from hawthorn. 
Fumea intermediella, two in Wicken Fen,—one at snnset and one at 
sunrise ; this species is new to the fen. 
Xysmatodoma melanella, one on trunk of willow, Ditton Fields. 
Scardia parasitella, bred from apple bark. 8S. granella, beaten from 
thatch. S. cloacella, beaten from thatch, and bred from decayed wood and 
bark. 
Blabophanes rusticella, bred in abundance from birds’ nests. 
Tinea tapetzella, in its usual haunts—outhouses. 7’. misella, a good 
series, beaten from and flying about thatch. T. pellionella, at home. 
T. fuscipunctella, at ‘ Catch-’em-Hall,” as we have christened our three- 
roomed cottage in the fen. TT’. pallescentella, at home, most plentiful at 
Christmas time. TZ’. lappella, bred plentifully from birds’ nests ; light 
ochreous and dark fuscous varieties. 
Tineola biselliella, at home; rather too much so. 
Lampronia rubiella, one in Wicken Fen, 
Incurvaria muscalella, abundant, flying in the sunshine along hedge- 
rows ; some nicely marked vars. ; one, a female, with a third white spot on 
the costa, between, and as large as, the two dorsal spots. 
Micropteryx calthella, in king-cups (Caltha palustris) M. thunbergella, 
