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LEPIDOPTERA, 



New British Tineina. 



By H. T. Stainton, F.R.S. 



Since our last chapter on this subject two years ago five 

 species have been added to the British List, viz. : 



De'presmria Cnicella, Treitschke. 



Gelechia muscosella, Zeller. 



Cemiostoma o?'obi, n. sp. 



Bucculatrix artemisiella, Wocke; and 



Nepticula ininusculella, Herrich-SchafFer. 



Depressaria Cnicella, Tr. The history of this species 

 has already appeared in the 6th volume of the Natural 

 History of the Tineina, pp. 210—216, PI. VI, Fifr. 3. I 

 then remarked : " This species has not yet occurred in 

 Britain, its food-plant being of rare occurrence here." It 

 was then only known to feed on Eryngium campestre. I 

 had repeatedly looked for it on Eryngium maintiynum at 

 Dawlish Warren, but had never met with the larva or with 

 any indications of its presence; and my friend Mr. George 

 Wailes had sought on some plants o^ Eryngium campestre in 

 the neighbourhood of Newcastle, but equally in vain. 



Mr. Moncreaff, of Southsea, has had the good fortune to 

 meet with the larva of this insect there on Eryngium mari- 

 timum; three years ago he found these larvae very plen- 



