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BUCCULATRIX MARITIMA. 



[Plate III. Fig. 1, 



faintly indicated as whitish. The 

 above description applies to the larva 

 when nearly full fed ; when very 

 young it is yellow, with the head 

 brownish and with a blackish spot 

 on the back of the second segment. 



Geographical Distribution. 

 This occurs in several localities in 

 England and will probably eventually 

 be found wherever its food plant 

 grows freely. It has been met with 

 at Southend and St. Osyths in 

 Essex, and in the Isle of Sheppey and 

 on the banks of the Thames below 

 Gravesend. On the south coast it 

 has been observed near Brighton; to 

 the west it has been collected freely 

 near Bristol and near Barnstaple ; 

 to the north it has been noticed at 

 Newcastle- on -Tyne. In Germany 

 this species has only been found in 

 one locality ; at Salzhausen in Hesse- 

 Cassel. In Finland it has been ob- 

 served on the shore of Lake Ladoga. 



Synonymy. 

 This insect was first described by 

 Stainton in his *' Supplementary Ca- 

 talogue of British Tineidae and Ptero- 

 phoridas," under the name of Buccu- 

 latrix maritima ; he also described it 

 under this name in his volume of 

 the " Insecta Britannica." Herrich- 

 Schaffer, in his *' Schmetterlinge von 

 Europa" describes it under the desig- 

 nation of Bucculatrix marUi?nella. 



taches ordinaires sont faibleraent 

 marquees par leur couleur blanch- 

 atre. Cette description ne s'applique 

 qu'a la chenille presque adulte ; 

 lorsqu'elle est tres-jeune, elle est 

 jaune, avec la tete brunatre, et une 

 tache noiratre sur la partie pos- 

 terieure du second segment. 



La Distribution GeograpMque. 



Cette espece se trouve en plusieurs 

 localites en Angleterre, et probable- 

 ment plus tard on la trouvera partout 

 ou sa plante nourriciere croit en 

 abondance. On I'a observee en 

 Essex, a Southend et a St. Osyths; 

 elle se trouve aussi a ITle de Sheppey 

 et sur les bords de la Tamise pres 

 de Gravesend. Sur la cote meri- 

 dionale on I'a remarquee a Brighton ; 

 vers I'ouest on I'a trouvee abondam- 

 ment a Bristol et pres de Barnstaple ; 

 vers le nord on I'a observee a New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. En Allemagne on 

 ne I'a trouvee qu'en une localite, a 

 Salzhausen en Hesse-Cassel. En 

 Finlande I'espece a ete observee sur 

 les bords du Lac LadojTja. 



Synonymie. 

 Cette espece fut d'abord decrite 

 par Stainton dans son " Supple- 

 mentary Catalogue of British Tineidae 

 and Pterophoridae," sous le nom de 

 Bucculatrix marithna ; il la decrivit 

 sous le meme nom, dans son volume 

 des " Insecta Britannica." Herrich- 

 SchafFer, dans ses " Schmetterlinge 

 von Europa," I'a decrite sous le nom 

 de Bucculatrix maritimella. 



