A HISTORY OF CORNWALL 



Z. trifolii is very local, but usually abundant where it occurs. Pocris statices is common but local, 

 in open places, meadows, and near woods in the south-east of the county. It is not infrequently 

 met with about Truro, and is common at Godolphin. 



TORTRICINA 



EPIBLEMIDAE 



Chrosis littoralis seems to be abundant in most situations on the coast where thrift is plentiful, 

 including Scilly. Bactra lanceolana is among rushes usually one of the commonest of insects in 

 May and June. B. furfurana has been taken among reeds in East Cornwall and at Swanpool. 

 Eucosma hartmanniana has been reported from the woods on the right bank of the Tamar in July. 

 Two specimens of E. betuletana were taken by Perkins at Heligan, near Mevagissey. E. variegana 

 is generally distributed along the south, and common in woods and lanes. E. ochrohucana is common 

 in woods and in tall hedgebanks in the east, but has not been recorded for the west. E. pruniana is 

 abundant, but somewhat local. The last two species when at rest closely resemble the droppings of 

 birds. E. oblongana is apparently rare, as a single specimen taken by Atmore near Penzance and 

 one in the Lynher valley are the only county records. E. sellana is recorded by Baily from Paul, near 

 Penzance, and E. dimidiana by Marshall from Botus Fleming. E. nigricostana has been taken by 

 Peter in the neighbourhood of Launccston. There is a record for E. rupana from Liskeard, but it 

 is almost certainly in error for E. purpurana which has been taken there. E. urticaria is common 

 but local in the southern half of the county. E. lacunana is fairly general about open woods and 

 along country roads with broad bramble-covered margins. E. bifasciana was taken in Bishop's Wood, 

 Truro, by J. J. Lory in July, 1901. E. striana was captured frequently by Cocks at Falmouth, 

 but has not been seen there for the last forty years. Evetria buo/iana, though usually scarce, has 

 occasionally done a good deal of damage to Pinus insignis in different parts of the county by mining 

 into the young shoots. E. pinivorana attacked some young Pinus sylvestris in similar fashion near 

 Liskeard a few years ago. Enarmonla cruciana is common in the woods and willow clumps in the 

 east of the county, but has not been found west of Bodmin. E. nanana was caught by Baily near 

 Godolphin, and two specimens of E. pinicolana were taken by the same entomologist near Land's End. 

 E. corttcana is also rare, and probably confined to the district round Botus Fleming, where Marshall 

 caught three. E. woeberiana is local, and fortunately nowhere common as yet. It has been taken 

 in orchards about Callington, Truro, Penzance and Newquay. Tmetocera ocellana is common in 

 thick hedgebanks and in tree clumps in the south-east of the county, and as far west as the Looe 

 valley. It was common in 1901 at Heligan, Mevagissey. Eudemis naevana\\zs a wide distribution, 

 but is generally scarce. Atmore found it common at Penzance, and in 1904 it was plentiful at 

 Newquay. The beautiful Ancylui derasana is rare, but has been taken along the right bank of the 

 Tamar. A. lundana has only been recorded from the Looe valley. A. biarcuana has been occa- 

 sionally found on the banks of the Gannel. Gypsonoma dealbana has bee-n obtained by Marshall in 

 East Cornwall. G. neglectana occurs somewhat sparingly at Cotehele. Cydia obtusana has been 

 obtained several times among oaks in the east and north-east of the county. C. trimaculana has been 

 taken in the woods at Doublebois, and C. ramella has been found by Tellam at Bodmin. C. achatana 

 was recorded by Cocks at Falmouth, and there is a specimen marked 'Penryn' in the museum of the 

 Royal Institution of Cornwall at Truro. C. strobilella was obtained by Marshall in the east of the 

 county, and C. nigromaculana was taken by Peter in the neighbourhood of Launceston. C. citrana, 

 generally regarded as belonging to the eastern and northern districts of England, was found in 

 abundance at Scilly by Jenkinson in 1877. A solitary specimen of C. pupillana was taken by Price 

 on Artemisia near Fowey. About half a dozen specimens of C. aemulana were seen over a clump 

 of golden rod, and two secured by E. Pearce at Pencalenick early in July, 1902. Notocelia uddman- 

 niana is evidently distributed throughout the whole county, including Scilly, but is nowhere common. 

 N. rosaecolana was taken on sweet-briar not far from Callington in June, 1905. N. trimaculana is 

 widely distributed on hedgebanks and in gardens, but it is seldom one sees more than five or six even 

 in a favoured locality in the course of the season. N. roborana is somewhat local, occurring rather 

 sparingly in broad hedges, tangled copses and open woods near the Tamar, and about Liskeard, 

 Falmouth, Penzance and Wadebridge. For three seasons now there has been a colony of N. incar- 

 natana in the Restorma! valley, near Lostwithiel. Epiblema tripunctana occurs in the oak woods 

 about Millook, in the gardens at Flushing and Penzance, and probably elsewhere. E. subocellana is 

 taken occasionally in the east of the county. A fine specimen of E. ptnkleriana was captured among 

 the hazels near Kilkhampton about the end of June, 1902. E. nisella was reported by Marshall as 

 scarce about Botus Fleming, and has been obtained at sallow up the Lynher valley. E. immundana 

 was taken at Heligan, near Mevagissey, in May, 1901, and near the Tamar in April, 1904. 



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