THE LEPIDOPTERA OF AN ESSEX GARDEN. 85 
ings of this lovely species being much in evidence. A long and 
variable series of what I take to be Lita instabilella were obtained from 
the saltings. Teleta vulyella and T. fugitivella were abundant, with 
odd specimens of Recurvaria nanella, R. leucatella (one last year), 
+ Bryotropha terella, b. domestica, Lita fraternella, L. maculiferella, L. 
hitbnerella, Anarsia spartiella, and Gelechia sororculella completes the 
Gelechias as far as I have them named, though there are several other 
species. Argyresthias, as one would expect, were very numerous, 
Argyresthia ephippella, A, albistria, A. nitidella, with its white var. 
ossea (Haworth), A. mendica, A. curvella, with an odd specimen of 
A. goedartella and one A. brockeella show that they were not neglected. 
In order to test the occurrence of Parornia finitimella, Mr. Binion 
neglected no opportunity of capturing specimens of this genus; in all, 
108 specimens were secured and set. By far the most abundant was 
Parornix anglicella, then in point of numbers P. finitimella made a good 
second, with P. torquilella by no means common. Mr. Burrows ob- 
tained specimens of both broods of these three species. With the 
series now separated out by genitalia it is possible to see what a hand- 
some species P. finitimedla is, though here again are two specimens so 
different that Iam inclined to mount them to see if there is not 
another species only awaiting discovery. I had hoped to duplicate the 
single example of this genus sent me by Mr. Whittle, of Southend, 
which so far is the only British example of the two specimens that 
form, with the type specimen of P. finitimella, Zeller’s series of three 
specimens over the label P. finitimella. These three (Whittle’s one 
and Zeller’s two specimens) are a perfectly distinct species and are so 
far unnamed and undescribed. I hope to deal with them in a forth- 
coming paper on the genus Parornix, when I propose to give a plate 
showing how easily the different species may be separated by the 
genitalia. 
Gracilaria syringella was in profusion, with some magnificent dark 
varieties. The Coleophora are represented by many species, but only 
a few are worked out so far. The very lovely bronzy green Coleophora 
deauratella, the white C. anatipennella, C. fuscedinella, C. annulatella, C. 
lutipennella, C. salinella and C. caespititiella, the latter evidently from 
the rushes in the adjoining marsh-land. These, with single specimens 
of C. conyzae and C. lineola, being all so far determined. The same 
may be said of the genus Hlachista. Mr. Burrows was greatly pleased 
at turning up a single example of Chrysoclysta linniella, a species he 
knows well, and has often searched for in vain at Mucking. Batrachedra 
pracangusta was numerous, as was Laverna atra, Chauliodus chdero- 
phyllellus, only one specimen, Hlachista rufocinerea common, with 
several specimens of the lovely white H. argentella, and some few 
examples of Tischerta marginea, with a single Elachista atricomella. 
In Lithocolletis, L. cramerella, L. spinicolella, L. messaniella, L. pomi- 
foltella, L. soRmeheralic, L. lantanella, L. scopariella, L. sorbi, L. coryli- 
foliella, occurred with hosts of L. trifasciella, among which I detected one 
with a strange genitalia, which will possibly prove to be one of the nearly 
allied species. A single specimen of Lyonetia clerkella hid itself for 
some time amongst the Cemiostoma laburnella and C. scitella. A couple 
of specimens of Bucculatria boyerella brings us to the difficuit group 
Nepticula, of which the only specimens so far I have been able to 
identify are Nepticula trimaculella and N. crataegi. Of the Pterophoridae 
