LEPIDOPTERA OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK. 79 



found in beech in Corfe Rectory garden by 

 E.R.B. in Oct., 1898. 

 Nepticula acetosella, Merrin (acetos^, Stn.) Corfe ; 

 larvae pretty common (at the E. end of North- 

 castle Hill) in leaves of Rumex acetosella 

 growing among the furze bushes. First 

 found by Rev. C. R. Digby on Aug. 24, 1893, 

 and mines both tenanted and empty were 

 then collected by him and E.R.B. Also 

 locally common on the S.E. slope of the hill 

 on which Corfe Castle stands. (E.R.B., 

 1895.) Creech ; locally common on the hill 

 above Creech Grange. (E.R.B.) 



,, centifoliella, Z., Stn. Studland ; bred May, 



1879, from larvae found in Rosa sjyinosissima 

 in the Manor House pony fields by Rev. C. R. 

 Digby in the autumn of 1878. Not satisfac- 

 torily determined till 1892. 



,, FRAGARiELLA, Hey. (gei, Wk.) Corfe ; bred 



from bramble in Feb., 1890. (E.R.B.) 



„ CONFUSELLA, Wlsm. Corfe ; a mine found by 



E.R.B. in birch was identified in Sep 5., 1893, 

 by Dr. J. H. Wood as certainly his then 

 unnamed species, since described as con- 

 fusella. 



Note. — The following occurs in Mr. Bankes' notes — ■ 

 " Nepticula eurema, Drt. Swanage Coast (Punfield) ; taken plenti- 

 fully in 1899 by sweeping amongst Lotus corniculatus. 

 (E.R.B.)." 

 But as I cannot discover that any description of a Nepticzda under 

 this name has been published, and the circumstances strongly suggest 

 cryptella, I assume that it was that species or a variety of it, perhaps 

 the variety with pale opjoosite spots on the forewing alluded to under 

 the record of Nepticula cryptella in the first Purbeck List, Proc. D.F.C., 

 VI., 175, which may have been mistakenly thought at one time to be a 

 distinct species, and for which this name may have been suggested. 

 (N. M. Richardson.) 



