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greyish-white with much irroration, and the other — which for 

 a time was a great puzzler — a dark red-brown, are noteworthy. 

 When collecting near the Camghouran burn, on the afternoon of 

 June 3rd, I netted a Tortrix unlike any known to me. It seemed 

 to rise with a rather weak flight from some mixed growth, including 

 Erica and Vaccinitim, and has now been identiiied by Mr. J. 

 Hartley Durrant as Ancylls tineana, Hb., new to the British list. 



The following is an attempt to describe this insect based on 

 this one specimen: Wing expanse 15 mm., costa well arched, 

 fore wings brownish-olivaceous, costal strigulae dark fuscous and 

 silvery-whitish, a large grey tornal blotch with a mass of silvery 

 scales at the anterior edge, cilia glossy, pale olivaceous ; hind 

 wings pale grey, glossy. Head with palpi and thorax brownish- 

 olivaceous ; anal tuft pale. 



According to Hofmann the species occurs in Germany, Austria, 

 Holland, Galicia, West Eussia, Sweden, France and Piedmont 



Magnified twice natural size. 



and the larva is described as dirty brownish-grey, with darker 

 tubercles; head yellow-brown, plate paler; lives June to 

 September on Popidus tremula, Cratcegus, Primus domestica and 

 spinnsa, Pyriis mains. 



I am much indebted to Mr. W. G. Sheldon as well as to Mr. 

 J. H. Durrant — to the latter for the identification, and to the 

 former for allowing me to make extracts from the works of 

 various Continental authorities who have dealt with this species. 



Retinia posticana was netted June 4th. I feel sure that some- 

 one with more energy than I possess will some day get this 

 insect in plenty at Camghouran ; on the 6th Ahrostola tripartita 

 and a larva of Diplodoma herminata. It is rather singular that 

 when I was, last year, collecting at Camghouran, I should have 

 written the Eev. C. R. N. Burrows that it was quite useless to 

 hunt for his special wants. This year, quite unsought, a Sole- 

 nohia ? sp., Acanthopsyche atra and Diplodoma herminiata thrust 

 themselves in my way. Larvae of Folia chi and Eupithecia 

 sobrinata occurred ; Argyresthia prcecocella was knocked out of 

 juniper ; Lithocolletis spinohdla was not uncommon at the loch- 

 side ; Argyresthia sorhiella was found at Carie ; Acompsia sub- 

 aqailed occurred under bracken at Camghouran. On July 1st a 

 larva of Entephria casiata was found, stretched out on a boulder 



