CYDIA LEGUMINANA, Z. 229 
As I have before stated, the imago flies freely in the sun 
around the pollard elms during the afternoon; in the morning 
it is sluggish and can then only be beaten out, and if the 
weather is cold it is best to beat the elm branches into an 
umbrella, into which the moth falls and remains quiet. 
The imagines are on the wing in an average season from 
about the end of the first week in June for a month or more, but 
in the last two seasons, which, of course, were abnormally early, 
the males especially were flying at the end of May. 
One or two continental lepidopterists, judging from what 
Hoffmann in the Spuler edition (1908, ii, p. 293)—says—“ It lives 
according to Schmidt on Alnus, according to Disque in Autumn 
(November) under the bark of Fagus’’—seem to have known a 
fragment of its life-history. I believe there is a good deal of 
beech growing in the locality in Epping Forest, and it is quite 
probable that the larva feeds upon this tree as stated by Disque, 
although his remark would lead one to think that he meant that 
it hibernated or pupated only under the bark. It is certain that 
elm is not found nearby, but hornbeam is very abundant, and it 
is possible, and indeed it appears to me most probable, that the 
larva then fed upon the bark of this tree. Ido not think there 
are any alder trees to be found there. 
The nomenclature of the species is a trifle puzzling. The 
oldest name that has been applied to it, lathyrana, Hub., is a mis- 
nomer. His figure (Tort. 207, 1811 2), whatever it may have been 
intended to represent, is certainly not this species. Itis most like 
Laspeyresia perlepidana, Haw., and it is generally considered to 
refer to that species, to which it is assigned by Herrich Schiffer. 
There can be no question but that the correct name is legu- 
minana, Geller (1846). Herrich Schiiffer’s name, deflexana (fig. 
277), is dated 1848; it is stated by him to be a MS. name of 
Fischer von Roslerstamm, and must fall before that of Zeller. In- 
terruptana, Wilk., is another misnomer: he calls it ‘*interruptana, 
H.8&.,” but this species has nothing to do with leguminana, Zell. 
Herrich Schiffer figures it (fig. 280) as a distinct species from his 
deflecana = leguminana, Zell.; it is now known to be the dupli- 
cana of Zetterstedt. There is still another name, dorsilunana, 
Erschoff, but this is dated 1877—long after Zeller’s date. 
The first example of leguminana taken in Britain is the one 
in the Doubleday Collection, which is recorded by Wilkinson, 
Brit. Tort.,’ p. 211 (1859): ‘* A single specimen of this insect is in 
the cabinet of Mr. H. Doubleday, which was captured several years 
ago in Devonshire in June.” One is strongly inclined to think 
that this specimen originated very much nearer than Devonshire 
to Doubleday’s residence, i. e. in Epping Forest, some three miles 
from it! 
Youlgreave, 
South Croydon ; 
September, 1921. 
