10 OBSERVATIONS ON TINEINA. 



our common milkwort {Poly gala vuhjaris), which they ate 

 readily. Hence there seems to be no reason why we should 

 further hesitate to consider P, vulgaris the food-plant of 

 our British Chrlsfiemanas." But eleven years were to 

 pass away before that prediction bore fruit. 



The larva of Hypercallia Chrktiernana feeds between 

 the united leaves of Polygala vulgaris at the end of May; 

 we must not assume that every Polygala shoot, with its 

 leaves drawn together, necessarily contains the larva of 

 Ckristiernana, as many will be found tenanted by our very 

 old friend— the larva of Sciaphila suhjectana. The prettily 

 speckled head and second segment of the larva of Ckris- 

 tiernana enables us at once to recognize it, without turning 

 it entirely out of its place of concealment. 



* CEcophura luridicomella, H -S. I have received a 

 specimen of this insect from Herr v. Heinemann, with the 

 intimation that it was certainly distinct fiom Fuscescens (in 

 Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue it is given as a synonym 

 of Fuscescens). In this opinion I quite concur; it is a 

 neater insect than Fuscescens, with more glossy and narrower 

 anterior wings, and the head distinctly pale yellow. Pro- 

 bably both are rotten-wood feeders, but it is strange that we 

 have never yet bred CE. fuscescens. 



JEchmia dentella, Z. Herr v. Heinemann has bred this 

 species from larvas found in July, feeding in the seeds of 

 Angelica; a somewhat allied but browner and narrower- 

 winged insect had previously been bred from the seeds of 

 Laserpitium. Possibly there are other seed-feeding larvae 

 of this group yet undetected. 



Heliozela resplendella, Stt. From the numerous larvae 

 of this species collected in Scotland in August, 1867, I 

 did not succeed in rearing a single specimen of the imago. 

 I must hope for better luck ne-sit time. 



