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grains of sand completely woven together with silk. The pupa is 

 of very ordinary shape, about two -fifths of an inch long, evenly 

 rounded, broadest at the thorax, and tapering gradually to the 

 anal point. The whole surface is semi-translucent and polished, 

 and all the parts are well defined. The eye-, leg-, and wing-cases 

 are bright green, the thorax and abdominal segments yellow, the 

 abdominal divisions brown, and a distinct green line, which shows 

 through the translucent covering, extends through the dorsal area. 

 The imagos emerged at the end of July and beginning of August. 

 —Geo. T. Porritt; Huddersfield, April 3, 1884. 



Notes on certain Tineje. — Of the so-called species, Gelechia 

 ligulella, G. vorticella, G. tceniolella, and G. sircomella, I feel sure 

 that three, viz., Gelechia ligulella, G. tcsniolella, and G. sircomella, 

 are only forms of one. I took a large quantity of them this 

 year; and they were swept from the Lotus corniculatus, different 

 sexes in the different forms being freely paired. This is, I think, 

 a convincing proof of their unity of species. Gelechia vorticella is 

 so like the others that I should place it also as a form of the same 

 species. If anyone takes G. vorticella freely, and would kindly 

 allow me to inspect a series, I should thank him much and return 

 them uninjured. I took a single specimen of Retinia duplana 

 flying amongst fir-trees this year; it is a very distinct species, and 

 has only hitherto, I believe, been before taken in Scotland in very 

 small numbers. Depressaria hypericella has been bred this year 

 from shoots of Hypericum by both Mr. Shuttleworth and Mr. 

 Murray; it had not previously been noticed in the district. 

 Some time ago Mr. Lacy took a specimen of (Ecophora minutella, 

 and this year I was fortunate in doing the same ; it was flying, 

 near dusk, across a road near farm-buildings. In August I first 

 found larvae of Asychna terminella mining in the leaves of Circcea 

 lutetiana, in dark places in the woods. In September, last year, 

 I found and recognised mines of Nepticula punctella in sloe. I 

 had before seen this larva, but had stupidly mistaken it for 

 N. plagicolella. I now see that the latter is yellow, and makes a 

 clear whitish blotch, preceded by a slender gallery; the former is 

 green, and its mine is coiled like a watch-spring, afterwards 

 extending round the edge of the leaf. The " frass " fills up the 

 gallery, and makes it light brown. The imagos emerged very 

 freely in June. About August I found mines, which appeared 

 strange to me, in wild strawberry ; these produced in June following 



ENTOM. — MAY, 1884. Q 



