158 [July, 



In the body of a ? P. bamhuscB I found a parasite. I could mate out the 

 antennae, which seemed to resemble those of AnapJies, but there was one Joint less 

 to the funicle, and the club was smaller in proportion. 



Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica : 

 February 20th, 1893. 



OCCUREENCE OF GELFCSIA {BRYOTROPRA) FIGULELLA, STAUD., 



IJSr EF&LAND. 



BT C. G. BAEKETT, T.E.S. 



Last summer the Eev. C. T, Cruttwell sent the very few Tortrices 

 and Tineina which the then stormy and wet weather had allowed him 

 to secure during a fortnight's visit to Aldeburgh, Suffolk, for exami- 

 nation. Among them was a Gelechia {BryotropJia) evidently allied 

 to terrella, but with rather shorter wings, which I was unable to 

 identify. Recently, with the kind aid of Lord Walsingham and Mr. 

 Hartley Durrant, it has been recognised z.% Jigulella, Staudinger. 



Mr. Cruttwell says of this specimen, " It was captured on waste 

 land, or salt marshes near the sea, on the coast of Aldeburgh, between 

 July 6th and 20th, 1892." 



Of this species Mr. Stainton records in the " Tineina of Southern 

 Europe," that he reared four specimens between April 6th and 27th, 

 one from a larva found on February 28th in sand at the roots of some 

 plants of Silene nicceensis in a sandy wood near the sea to the east of 

 Cannes, and the others from cocoons found in the sand at the same 

 time. This larva he described " Whitish-ochreous ; head pale brown, 

 mouth darker ; second segment with a dark brown semi-crescent on 

 each side ; dorsal line slender, reddish-ochreous ; subdorsal lines dark 

 brown, paler anteriorly ; spots minute, black ; anal segment glossy." 

 This larva did not eat, but spun up immediately, and its food is there- 

 fore uncertain. It was accidently found while Mr. Stainton was 

 collecting larvae of a species which he named Gelechia provinciella, 

 and which had evidently fed in numbers on the Silene, But the habits 

 of the group to which the present species belongs would indicate some 

 grass as a more probable food. 



The moth is smaller than ordinary BryotropJia terrella, with proportionately 

 broader fore-wings, the costa of which is decidedly arched before the middle ; very 

 glossy, grey-brown with a reddish flush ; from the base along the fold is a dark 

 clouding of atoms which rather obscures the usual black dots ; fascia paler brown, 

 sharply elbowed, but indistinct ; and the apical portion beyond the fascia clouded 

 with rows of minute blackish dashes. Hind-wings shining pale grey, darker at the 

 apical margin, cilia grey, rather paler. 



Staudinger found it at Chiclana, Spain. Lord Walsingham has 

 taken a fine series near Mr. Stainton's locality in the south of France, 



39, Linden Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : 

 June, 1893. 



