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be the same species^ whether it feeds on apple, hawthorn, 

 mountain-ash or, Cotoneaster ; but in each of the white 

 species we have some trifling, scarcely perceptible difference, 

 and Lotella, as a o^rey species feeding on one of the Legumi- 

 nosce, is the most distinct of the whole group. 



BuccuLATRix ARTEMisiELLA, Wocke. The occurrence 

 of this insect, though recorded in the Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine two years ago (vol. iv. p. 36), has not yet found 

 a place in the Annual. Its claim to be considered British 

 rests on the single specimen bred by Dr. Knaggs, and which 

 he very kindly presented to me. 



It agrees precisely with the specimens of Artemisiella 

 received from Dr. Wocke, of Breslau, bred by him from 

 Artemisia cunipestris. Dr. Knaggs bred his specimen from 

 a larva on yarrow, found at Folkestone in June, 1865, but 

 the occurrence of Artemisiella on Achillea millefolium is 

 something totally unexpected by us. Is it possible that this 

 insect can be an extreme aberration of CristateUa? 



Nepticula minusculella, H.-S. I have for some 

 years had an insect in my collection as N. minusculella^ 

 which I received from Mr. Parfitt, who took it near Exeter. 

 Mr. Boyd, of Cheshunt, has now bred the insect from larvae 

 collected in pear-leaves at Cheshunt in August, 1868. (Ent. 

 Month. Mag. v. p. 280). It is readily distinguished by its 

 small size and pale green colour from all its congeners except 

 AuciiparicB, but that has a yellow head; in Minusculella 

 the head seems to be always black. 



