160 SEPTEMBER. 



large and beautiful Sphinx Convolvuli; in the year 

 1846 this beautiful insect swarmed throughout the 

 country. 



I have enumerated a few of the more prominent or 

 uncommon species which occur here at this season, but 

 no doubt, from its position and the great variety of its 

 growth, the wood, if well worked, would produce an 

 abundant harvest of rarities. 



I will now pass to those insects which generally 

 occur this month. 



At Whittlebury Forest we may find Lyonetia padifo- 

 liella. Of this species Professor Frey, of Zurich, states : 

 " I bred in August all these forms (L. prunifoliella, 

 L. padifoliella and L. Albelld) from one kind of sloe 

 mine, with similar larvae, and am disposed to unite 

 them all as one species. The mine is broad, not narrow 

 like that of Clerhella ; Albella is very scarce, padi- 

 foliella the commonest. The pupa is suspended as in 

 Clerckella." (Entomologist's Annual, 1856, p. 58.) 



On the coast, among the " sea buckthorn" (Hippo- 

 phaes Rhamnoides) Gelechia Hippophaella occurs, 

 while among Chenopodium maritimum and Plantago 

 maritima we may find the extremely variable Gele- 

 chia instdbilella ; and in similar localities, at Brighton, 

 on the Cheshire sand hills at New Brighton, and in 

 the Isle of Wight, Gelechia marmorea and vicinella, 

 together with Gelechia celerella and vilella occur ; 

 while at Deal we may find Depressaria granulosella, 

 and at Folkestone Depressaria ultimella occurs. 



In wet places, among Inula dysenterica, we may 

 find the pretty little Acrolepia granitella, while among 

 alders Gracilaria elongella occurs, together with the 



