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Although taken on ling both species will eat whinberry 
(Vaccinium myrtillus) quite as freely in confinement. On 
referring to my notes I find my first captures were made 
May 20th, viz.—three O. filigrammaria and sixteen L. cesiata. 
My last and most successful attempt was on June 4th, when 
my bag amounted to one hundred and forty-two O. filigram- 
maria and thirty-six L. cesiata. Larentia didymata larvie 
were very numerous along with the above, and equally 
common feeding on whinberry.—R. Kay; Bury, Lancashire, 
June 9, 1876. 
New British Tinea.—I forwarded a few Tinea insects to 
Mr. Stainton to name, which he very obligingly did. Amongst 
them was a Tinea angustipennis, ‘an insect,” to use his 
own words, “very rare on the Continent, and unknown as 
British.” Also Tinea u.sp.? “unless itis an aberration of 
T. rusticella, which I do not believe.x—H. S.” Both were 
captured in the summer of 1874, amongst a wilderness 
of weeds, near the Acton railway; since ploughed up—alas! 
T. angustipennis feeds on rotten wood; size 53 lines; 
prettily marked with black, orange, and purple, transversely ; 
orange tuft on head. Tinea —? 9 lines; markings as nearly 
as possible similar to Ferruginella.—Thomas Sorrell ; Bolton 
House Collegiate School, Turnham Green, Chiswick, May 
16, 1876. 
Bees.—Bees seem very uncertain in their appearance; in 
some seasons certain species appear in numbers, and the 
next season none, or next to none, are to be found anywhere. 
Nomada Jacobee abounded last year, whilst this year [ did 
not see a single specimen. Andrena Smithella was tolerably 
abundant this year, and before 1 had only taken a single 
female. Bees are only to be found during the really fine 
weather of spring, summer, and autumn, when the country is 
in its loveliest state; and the situations they take one to are 
the most attractive,—where the wild flowers bloom. Can 
anything be more delightful than to find oneself in such a 
place? the air laden with the perfume of many flowers, and 
alive with these industrious little creatures, many of them 
humming over their work with as much variation in their 
notes as there is in an Kolian harp (I say many of them, for 
some are silent flyers). Their hum on such occasions as 
these is the contented hum of a self-satisfied bee; but they 
