142 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



Typlta latifoUa he found it rather commonly. I hope some 

 day to have the pleasure of taking the insect myself. 



Gelechia arundinetellay Zeller (see E. A. 1858, p. 91). The 

 occurrence of this species in a swampy place at Lee (alias 

 '^ tJi.e sallow pit ") is aU'eady recorded by Mr. Douglas in the 

 3rd volume of the Ent. Mo. Magazine, p. 91. Previously 

 I had been in the habit of making pilgrimages to Hackney, 

 sometimes two or three times in a season, in search of this 

 insect, which, though sometimes abundant in the larva state, 

 is almost impossible to breed, and s])ecimens captured on the 

 wing remind one of many an Entomological description, 

 because it is almost impossible from them to make out the 

 species. 



As the insect had been detected in a locality so near to 

 myself I hoped to have succeeded in getting a fine series of 

 ]arv83, and possibly expected to have reared a iew of the per- 

 fect insect. However, repeated visits to the spot only resulted 

 in one probable larva which I did not rear. I then tried for 

 the imago, and had the pleasure of capturing a very inferior 

 specimen on the 22nd July, the very day that Mr. Wormald 

 was better employed amongst G. lucldella. 



On the 11th of November Mr. Sang sent me from Dar- 

 lington a Carex leaf, which I believe was rained by several 

 of the young larvae of this species; it probably feeds gradually 

 ihroughout the winter, oidy becoming torpid during the con- 

 tinuance of frost. I entertain very little doubt but that the 

 insect may be found nearly throughout the country wherever 

 there are the swampy places which produce the Carex rijjai'ia 

 or paludosa. 



'^YjJsolophus trinotellus, Herrich-Schiiffer (NeueSchmet- 

 terlinge, p. 6, No. 35, description very good ; the figure had 

 better not be looked at, so I do not refer to it) ; Gelechia 

 torrideUay Zeller in lit. (not the Parasia torridclla of Mann). 



