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is oval ; the abdomen, which terminates in a truncated cone, is 

 divided into segments ; the wing-cases extend nearly to the end of the 

 abdomen, and are of considerable breadth. The antennae and legs are 

 placed in regular order between the wings (De Geer). 



FOOD-PLANTS. Rosa canina, R. ntbiyinosa, many species of garden 

 rose, etc. Wood states that he has also bred it from R. arvensis. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. The species is double-brooded, the imagines 

 appearing in May and August, from larvae that have fed up in 

 October-November, and July respectively. Bower records the mines 

 as being obtained on October 3rd, 1892, at Lewisham. Stainton 

 bred the species on August 24th-25th, 1853, from mines obtained at 

 Dawlish ; on May 6th, 1852, April 24th and May 17th, 1853, from 

 larvae obtained at Lewisham ; on March 17th, May 4th and 13th, 1853, 

 from larvae obtained at Beckenham. Imagines were captured on 

 June 1st, 1876, at Lewisham, and May 20th, 1851, at Beckenham. 

 Evans records imagines on May 23rd, 1895, at Kirknewton, and June 

 3rd, 1895, at Greenbank ; Walsingham, on April 20th, 1890, at 

 Cannes, and in Corsica, June 12th, 1898, whilst Reuter notes it in the 

 I. of Aland, on May 13th, 1886. 



LOCALITIES. The following localities refer indiscriminately to N. 

 anomalella and N. fletcheri, the species not having been previously 

 diagnosed separately. If a separation can be made before the com- 

 pletion of this volume, it shall be added in an appendix. 



CAMBRIDGE : Cambridge (Warren) . CHESHIRE: Bowdon (Edleston). DERBY: 

 Burton (Sang). DEVON: Dawlish (Stainton). DORSET: Isle of Purbeck, Corfe 

 Castle (Bankes), Weymouth (Richardson) , Glanvilles Wootton (Dale), Bloxworth 

 (Cambridge), Portland,* one only, bred (Bankes). DUBLIN: Howth (Birchall). 

 DURHAM : Darlington (Sang). FLINT : Northop nr. Mold (Bankes). GLOUCESTER : 

 Bristol (Stainton). HEREFORD : Tarrington (Wood). KENT : Tenterden, Becken- 

 ham (Stainton), Lewisham and Lee (Bower). LANCASHIRE: Manchester (Stainton), 

 Grange (Hodgkinson), Fleetwood, Preston (Threlfall), Liverpool district (Gregson). 

 LINCOLNSHIRE: Alford (Fletcher). MIDLOTHIAN: Kirknewton, Greenbank (Evans). 

 NORFOLK: Myntlyn, nr. Lynn (Barrett), Merton (Walsingham), King's Lynn 

 (Atmore). NORTHUMBERLAND : Newcastle (Stainton). SUFFOLK : Great Glenham 

 (Bloomfield), Lowestoft (Boyd). SUSSEX: generally abundant in the county 

 (Fletcher), Worthing (Bankes), Guestling (Bloomfield). YORK: Scarborough 

 (Wilkinson), Eichmond (Sang), York (Hind), Doncaster (Warren). 



DISTRIBUTION. Austria: Hraszt nr. Fiume (Mann), Carniola 

 (Wocke). France : Nohaut, Indre (Sand), Cannes, Corsica (Walsing- 

 ham). Germany : generally distributed and common (Heinemann and 

 Wocke), Berlin, Potsdam, etc. (Sorhagen), Alsace (Peyerimhoff). Italy : 

 Goriziana and Istria (Curo). Netherlands : Friesland, Leeuwarden 

 Arnhem, Breda, Dongen, Oudenbosch, South Holland (Snellen). 

 Russia : Pichtendahl (Nolcken), Aland (Reuter). Scandinavia : 

 Sweden (De Geer). Switzerland : nr. Zurich (Frey). 



NEPTICULA FLETCHERI, n. Sp. 



IMAGO. Head blackish ; eyecaps whitish-yellow ; base of antennas 

 whitish. Anterior wings 4 mm. ; bronzy, dark grey along the inner 



* With regard to this, .Richardson writes : " N. anomalella was recorded by 

 mistake in Lep. Dorset, 1st Edition, p. 56, but omitted in 2nd Edition. One was 

 bred August 20th, 1891, by E. R. Bankes. The larva, mine and cocoon cannot be 

 separated from those of N. centifoliella, though the imago is quite different, and 

 with this one exception, nothing but N. centifoliella has been bred from larvse 

 collected at Portland. Mr. Bankes, however, feels certain that no accidental 

 mistake has occurred in the case of his specimen, which was bred with numerous 

 N. centifoliella from wild rose, doubtless wild sweetbriar (Rosa rnbiginosa), but 

 possibly another kind growing near it. Probably N. anomalella occurs as elsewhere 

 on-cultivated roses " (List of Portland Lepidoptera, 1896, p. 190). 



