DORSET LKPrnorTKRA IN" 1892-3. fia 



Tliere is a somewhat rare plant, Siuvjla Jrufifo.^a, whicli, with 

 its annual congener S. maritima, grows hero and there in abund- 

 ance along the Chesil Beach. For many years past it has been 

 known that a small moth was attached to this plant, not only here, 

 but also in Lancashire, Norfolk, and Essex, but it was formerly set 

 down as one of the varieties of L. instahiUlla or one of the other 

 species of Lita. I believe that I was the first to breed this moth 

 in this county, having found the larva at Weymouth in May, 1885. 

 Mr. Bankes was just a year later. I therefore undertook to 

 describe it as a distinct epecies, which it has been generally 

 admitted to be for some time past, and have done so in the before- 

 mentioned paper. The species of this group found on the Chesil 

 Beach are sucedella, plantaginella, ocellatella, indahilella, salicorni(i\ 

 and the nearly allied obsoletella and aMj^Ucetla. 



The descriptions having been published, I will not repeat them 

 here, but merely make a few remarks upon the habits and mode of 

 life of some of these -species. In the early part of April Siueda 

 fruticosa, which is an evergreen perennial, shows no sign at all of 

 larvae feeding upon it, whereas this is the time to find the larvio 

 of instdbilella upon Afriplex portulacoides — another evergreen sea 

 shrub of low growth, and one of the most easily recognised of the 

 difficult Atriphx group. 



ERRATUM. 

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usual species on the Chesil Beach. The egg being laid somewhere 



