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Further hints as to the food of Gelechia (C/adodes) gerronella, Z. — Monsieur 

 Jourdheuille has had the pleasure of breeding this insect. In the spring of 1887, 

 wishing to obtain some tenanted cases of Coleophora albicosta after hibernation, he 

 collected a quantity of the seeds of TJlex europceus, and of the dry tips of the twigs 

 of that plant. Much to his surprise, on the 5th of the following July, four speci- 

 mens of G. gerronella made their appearance (Annales Soc. Ent. France, 1888, p. 66). 

 M. Jourdheuille adds : " Unfortunately, I have not been able to observe the larva, 

 which was, no doubt, already in the pupa state when I was gathering the plant ; 

 but entomologists will now know, with some precision, in what direction further 

 research should be made." — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : June 25th, 

 1889. 



Gelechia (Doryphora) servella, Zeller,bred in a London suburban greenhouse.' — 

 A specimen of this species was sent to me by Mr. James Malings for determination ; 

 it had been caught in a greenhouse, April 21st, 1889, at Shrewsbury Lane, Shooter's 

 Hill, and the captor could only suggest that the pupa had been introduced in some 

 potting compost bought at the C. S. S. A. Stores. This insect (unicolorous grey, 

 with three black spots) was not previously known as a British species, though it has 

 a wide range in Europe, as I have specimens from Finland and Livonia (received 

 through Zeller), from Switzerland ('received through Staudinger),and from the South 

 of France (received from Lord Walsingham). Some of the specimens have a much 

 darker ground-colour than others, but the markings seem very constant — an elongate 

 or dash-like spot on the fold, and, beyond it, two round black spots on the disc. As 

 nothing is yet known as to the food of the larva of the species, it is difficult to account 

 for its appearance in the greenhouse above-mentioned. — Id. : July \2>th, 1889. 



Chauliodus insecurellus in Wilts. — Early in June, a specimen of this species flew 

 in at my window in Marlborough, which faces an open down. On the 15th, during 

 an excursion to Stonehenge, we captured several specimens on the downs round the 

 temple, mostly flying towards sunset. This insect is, perhaps, overlooked ; Stainton 

 gives the end of July and August as its season of flight, but this must refer to a 

 second generation ; Heinemann gives May and June for Germany. One, at least, of 

 those captured was too fresh to have hibernated. — E. Meybick, Eamsbury, Hunger- 

 ford : June 25th, 1889. 



[Mr. Warren, in his paper on the Chauliodidce, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiv, pp. 141 — 

 147, gives, at p. 144, the times of appearance of Ch. insecurellus, thus : — 



Imago, end of May and beginning of June, and again end of July and August. 

 Larva feeds up in April and May, and again in July. — H. T. Stainton.] 



Deilephila insidiosa, Ersehoff. — On recently turning over Erschoff's Lepidoptera 

 of Turkestan (published as part of Fedchenko's Eeise), I found a note in Eussian, 

 at the foot of p. 24, of which the following is the substance : — " Eversmann's col- 

 lection contains a specimen labelled D. hippophaes, Esp., from the Syr Daria. D. 

 hippophaes is not found in the Russian Empire, and the example in question, though 

 closely allied, differs in several points. The colour of the thorax and of the fore- 

 wings above is much paler, more like that of D. zygophylli, Ochs. A tuft from the 



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