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&c., amongst beech. The larva may be found in September and 

 October between two leaves spun together, pupatiug therein ; very 

 easy to breed. 



8. redimitana, Gn. — As common as the previous species, and more 

 generally distributed amongst oaks. The habits of both larva and 

 imago are also precisely the same as loeirana. 



S. vfiiiana, Zell. — Occurs almost everywhere where sycamores grow ; 

 the larva spun up under the bark through the winter and spring ; the 

 imago not so often met with. The nearly allied and equally beautiful 

 trauniana, Schiff., I have never met with. 



8. roseticolana, Zell. — Common in the larval state everywhere, in 

 the " hips " of the wild roses. Not difficult to rear if pieces of rough 

 bark are put in the pot for the larvae to spin up in. 



8. (jermaiana, Hb. — May be beaten from or netted flying round oak 

 boughs in May and early June. Epping Forest, Warley, Hadleigh, &c. 

 I have spent many, many hours vainly searching for the larva ; one 

 was once bred casually by the Rev. G. Raynor from some oak twigs 

 gathered to feed other larvae on. 



Dichrorampha poUfmid, Hb. — Local, but has been met with very 

 sparingly in several distant localities amongst its food-plant, Achillea 

 niiUefolium.. Near Upminster, Pitsea, Harold Wood, and Purfleet. 



D. alpinana. Tr. — I have only met with it in a small clump of 

 Tanacetum vidijare growing in a garden at Stratford ; the larva in the 

 roots through the winter, and tlie imago late in July at rest during 

 the daytime amongst the foliage. 



D. alpestrana, H. S. — This species, which I had the pleasure of 

 adding to the British list in 1893, seems to be very local ; indeed, I 

 have only met with it in the original spot where it first turned up 

 in Epping Forest, and in a similar locality about half a mile away. 

 It has since been taken in Sussex, and doubtless in other places. 

 For remarks concerning habits, food-plant, vide E.M. M. vol. xxix. 

 p. 175. 



D. petiverella, L. — Very common almost everywhere amongst 

 Achillea miUefolinm . 



I), sequana Hb. — Somewhat local, but generally common where 

 found, I have bred it from A. millefoliuui. Loughtou, Ingatestone, 

 Childerditch, and many other places. 



D. pliiinbafiana, Tr. — Very common and generally distributed ; 

 seems very partial to railway Ijanks. 



D. acuminatana, Zell.-rLocal and uncommon. I have only met 

 with it very sparingly amongst Chnjsaiit/temjim lencanthemum on the 

 railway bank near Harold Wood in September, and the first brood 

 early in June at Mill Green, near Ingatestone. 



D. siiiiplicianft, Haw. — Not uncommon amongst Artemida vulgaris, 

 in the roots of which the larva feeds, through the winter. The imago 

 is sluggish, and when beaten out immediately makes for the shelter 

 of its food-plant again. 



D. coiisortana, St. — Local and uncommon. I have very occasion- 

 ally taken the larva and imago on railway banks. Harold Wood, 

 Woodford, and near Thames Haven. The larval habits are different 

 from the other species of this genus, feeding in the growing shoots of 

 Chrysanthemum lencanthcmum, and pupating therein. 



