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there must have been one to every few square inches. When on the- 

 wing at dusk they must have presented a picture of fairyland. On an 

 old oak in contrast sat one solitary specimen of Tinea parasitella. 

 About this time Paedisca bilunana was common on birch stems at 

 Chiswick, Laverna hellerella on hawthorn and Pardia tripunctana on 

 rose. On June 30th, at Richmond, I saw a few Penthina cortieand, 

 Hb., among birch, and found a nearly full-grown larva of Leiocampa 

 dictaeoides. I took twelve spun up Coleophorid cases for examination 

 of the pupa, but every one of them contained parasites. There were a 

 few Biitalis grand ipennis on Barnes Common, July 7th, they were 

 first noticed there about seventy years ago as recorded in the Zoologist 

 of that time. The common must have been a fine hunt- 

 ing ground in those days. Gelechia pinguinella was very 

 numerous on the poplar trunks and in fine condition. I also took this 

 species in Chiswick where I had not seen it before. At Wimbledon, 

 mines of Stigmella salicis were very common in sallow leaves and 

 Argyresthia goedartella was quite in its usual abundance. On July 

 24th I joined the South London Society's excursion to Byfleet, and. 

 took a fine specimen of Abebaea (Cerostoma) lucella, which I had long 

 wanted, four larvae of Aphelosetia cerusella in one mine on Pkragmites 

 communis, all of them produced moths, which emerged after 5 p.m. 

 (G.T.). This seems odd as Mr. P. A. Buxton records that A. poae, 

 which feeds on Glyceria aquatica in similar situations, emerged between 

 8 and 9 a.m. The two species, however, belong to different sections 

 of the genus (Ent. Rec, xxviii., p. 38). I was also pleased to get larvae 

 of Bucculatrix frangulella off the PJiaiunus bushes, they were mostly in 

 their cocoonets changing their skins. The skin does not shrivel up 

 like that of many larvae, but remains outstretched in the cocoonet just 

 as it was before the larva crept out of it. On the 29th I walked down 

 one of the last yet unmade-up roads in Chiswick and found Hernimene 

 {LHcroramplia) simjdiciana common and in fine condition, Artemisia 

 vulgaris grows in abundance, and it is here that I have taken the larvae 

 of Gracila riaomissellg, hi their bladdery mines. In early August we 

 tried sugar, but it only produced a few of the very common Noctuae. A 

 few specimens of the once rare Conchylis siueathmanniana occurred in our 

 meadow about this time. At Kingsbury on August 28th I found young 

 larvae of Colepphora solitariella in their first cases, and also several 

 empty egg shells. The eggs are laid on the upper surface of 

 the leaf towards the base, close to or in the sulcus that runs down the 

 middle of the leaf. The upright egg is cone-shaped, ribbed with a 

 rather deep depression at the summit. The larva mines through the 

 base of the eggshell into the leaf. In making its first case the larva 

 cuts out elongated pieces of the upper and lower cuticle, avoiding the 

 serrated edge of the leaf. It fastens the newly made case to the under- 

 side of the leaf, and later adds a portion to the tail end of pure white 

 silk. In another- place the young larvae of C. albitarsella were also in 

 their first cases, cut out from the leaves of Glechoma. In early 

 September Peronea reticulata (coutaiuiuaita) was abundant at Kings- 

 bury in all its tonus except omicron, which I did not see at all. There 

 was one specimen of the Y-form, with white ground colour, similar to 

 a specimen taken at iiath and I think Mr. Turner also has a white 

 one. There is a good deal of dogwood in the hedges about Kingsbury, 

 but I was surprised to see many mines of Antispila treitschkielia in the 

 leaves, as I had never noticed these mines previously. In August, 



