1894.] 81 



2. LiTA INSTABILELLA, Dgl. 

 Anacampsis instabilella, Dgl., Zool., IV, p. 1270, p. 1268, fig. 10 (1846). 



= G^eZecAza Jn*fa6i7eKa,Dgl.,Tran8.Ent. Soc.Lond.,Y,p. 201 {partim) (1849) ; 

 Stn., I. B. Lep. Tin., p. 126 {partim) (1854) ; Ent. Ann., 1855, p. 84 ; Man., 11, 

 p. 340 {partim : nea larva) (1859) ; Ent. Mo. Mag., XIX, pp. 251—3 {partim) 

 (1883). 



= Lita instalilella, Kchn., Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd series, IV, pp. 242—8 (1893). 



Larva — in leaves of Atriplex portulacoides, III — IV (probably IX— IV) ; 

 although full-fed by the middle or end of April (quite a month earlier than sucedella, 

 even when both occur on the same spot), the larva, after spinning up, lies for weeks 

 unchanged in its cocoon ! 



Pupa — in cocoon of silk and mud on surface of soil, V — VI. 



Jwio^o— VI— VII. 



Brood — one. Probably hibernates as young larva, since its food-plant is ever- 

 green. 



Hob. : England — Dorset, Sussex, Essex, &c. ; generally to be 



found where its food-plant grows freely, 



3. Lita ocellatella, Stn.* 



Gelechia ocellatella, Stn., Ent. Ann., 1859, pp. 151—2 ; Man., II, p. 340 (1859) ; 

 Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag., XVI, pp. 261—2 (1880) ; Bankes, Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd 

 Series, II, pp. 48—9 (1891). 



= OehcMa instabilella, Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., XIX, pp. 252—3 {partim) (1883). 



= Lita ocellatella, Echn., Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd Series, IV, pp. 242—7 (1893). 



Larva — in shoots, leaves, and flowers of Beta maritima, IV — V (probably 

 X— V), VI— VIII. (In Ent. Mo. Mag., XV, p. 89, Mr. Threlfall records Aster 

 tripolium as a food-plant of " ocellatella ;" but knowing L. salicornice to be the only 

 British Lita on A. tripolium, I asked for a sight of the bred moths, and found them 

 to be that species.) 



Fupa — in slight cocoon of silk, often mixed with earth, on surface of soil, or 

 among dead leaves, &c., V — VI, VII — IX. 



Imago— Yl—Yll, VIII— IX. 



Broods — two. Probably hibernates as young larva, since its food-plant is 

 evergreen. 



Sah. : England — Cornwall, Dorset, Kent ; widely distributed 

 along tbe south coast, but Messrs. W. H. B. Fletcher and A. C. Vine 

 have failed to find it in Sussex. Wales — Pembrokeshire. Scillt 

 Isles. Madeira Isles — Porto Sancto. 



4. Lita suiEDELLA, Eichardson. 



Lita sucedella, Echn., Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd Series, IV, pp. 241—8 (1893). 

 = Gelechia instabilella, Stn., Ent. Mo. Mag., XIX, pp. 252- -3 {partim) 

 (1883). 



* Ocellatella, 8tn., n. syn., = horiicolella, Rssl., Verz. Schm. Nassau, 240—1 (1866) ; Hein., 

 Bchm. Deutscii. Tin., 249 (1870} ; Stgr. and Wk., Cat. Lep. Eur., No. 1918 (1871). I received only 

 last week from M. Ragonot two specimens of Liia horiicolella from Wiesbaden, labelled "type 

 Rosaler," these are undoubtedly ocellaiella, Stn., and agree with Rossler's description.— Wlsm. 



