RARE AND LOCAL LEPIDOPTERA. 59 



hot day. The food plant of the larvae does not yet appear to 

 have been anywhere discovered. This is a point we hope to clear 

 up some day if the moth should again occur as it did last year. 

 In England it was first discovered, but not abundantly, in the year 

 1850, by a professional collector named Stretten, in Holme Fen, 

 Huntingdonshire, and was also found at Whittlesea, Cambridge- 

 shire. In 1869 (Ent Month Mag, vol. 5) it was taken 

 sparingly at Haslemere, by Mr. C. G. Barrett. Mr. Bond thinks 

 it was also found in Norfolk some years ago by a professional 

 collector named Winter. I understand that it was found some 

 years ago near Crewe, by a Mr. W. Thompson, from 1850 to 

 1860 and about 30 years ago in the Fens, by Peter Bouchard.* 

 These are the only occurrences 1 can ascertain anything about 

 until our meeting with it in this county last year. I should 

 mention, however, that in the same month (August) last year, Mr. 

 Digby also met with several examples in a swamp near Studland. 

 It is not included in Mr. South's able papers on the British 

 species of this group, published in recent volumes of the 

 " Entomologist." 



COLEOPHORA FLAVAGINELLA (LIENIG). 



Perfect insect ; width of forewings, 7 lines. The forewings are 

 ochreous, dusted over with grey scales, and with scarcely any 

 indications of darker longitudinal streaks. The costa is narrowly 

 whitish to beyond the middle ; the fringes are ochreous, and the 

 antennae white annulated with dark brown. The hinder wings 

 are unicolorous grey fringed with ochreous grey. 



Until the specialists, who are still in conference on the question 

 of the specific identity of this plainly coloured little moth, have 

 finished their labours, we must still reckon it under the name 

 above given. The larva makes for itself a smooth, greyish, 

 ochreous case, with dark brown longitudinal stripes, and feeds in 



* Mr. Eustace Bankes tells me that since the above was written he has 

 found a reference to a single specimen of this insect having been taken by 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett in the month of June, 1865, in Woolmer Forest. 

 Ent : Month. Mag., Vol. II., p. 263. 



