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25.10.79." Four L. ocellatella, labelled, " e. 1., Beta. Ocellatella, Barrett. C. G. 

 Barrett. 26.9.85." Eleven L. instabilella, labelled, "e 1., Atriplex pdrtulaeoides. 

 Shorelmm, Sussex. W. H. B. Fletcher. 15.4.82." One L. instabilella, labelled, 

 " e. I., 3.7.84. Statice limonium. Freshwater, I. W. W. H. B. Fletcher." As the 

 larva of instabilella has never been found on Statice limonitim by Mr. Fletcher 

 (or by any one else !) a single pupa was doubtless in rubbish among the old 

 Statice stems sent by him to Mr. Stainton in May, 1884 (Ent. Mo. Mag., XXI, 

 p. 60). One L. instabilella, labelled, " e. 1. 18.6.54. Atriplex portulacoides. 

 Brighton. J. N. Winter." Four L. sucedella, labelled, " e. 1., Suceda fruticosa. 

 Weymouth. N. M. Eichardson. 20.8.85." Two L. sucedella, labelled, " 8.86. 

 Hunstanton. C. G. Barrett. 13.9.86." Among these stand, side by side, two un- 

 mounted and un-labelled specimens, that on the right being ocellatella (a worn c?), 

 that on the left salicorriice. There is also a moth mounted on pith, through which 

 runs an extremely long continental pin, bearing a MS. label, " ocellatella," but no 

 data, and a small ticket on which is printed " 56." It was most probably one of 

 a set intended to be sent to a continental correspondent, but that the moth in 

 question is not one of the types of ocellatella, Stn., is proved by a comparison with 

 the description, and it is certainly instabilella. Next above the series of "insta- 

 bilella " is obsoletella, to the right of which is G. aleella ; pinned sideways on the 

 line between them are four un-mounted and un-labelled instabilella, the lowest 

 being the scai'ce dark-streaked form, which was described as the type ; and in the 

 aleella space are eight un-mounted atriplicella, labelled, " e. 1., Atriplex seeds. 

 Bristol. Grigg, 23.8.80." The series of "■ flantaginella, Stn.," consists of six 

 examples of that species, all labelled, " e. 1., Boots of Plantago maritima. Fleet- 

 wood. Threlfall, 12.11.79." 



The descriptions of the imago of '''' instahilella" in the I. B. Lep. 

 Tin., and the " Manual," appear to me to have been drawn up mainly 

 iroxn plantagineUa, but partly from instabilella also, because in both a 

 pale angulated fascia is mentioned, which is wanting in plantaginella. 

 In both works the locality, " St. Osyth," applies to both instahilella 

 and plantaginella, while in the I. B. Lep. Tin., " Brighton," and the 

 remarks about the larvfe and food-plants, refer to salicornioe only. In 

 the "Manual," the larva described under ^'instahilella'" is that of 

 plantaginella, while " Dublin," and not improbably " Sc." and " the 

 Lizard " also, applies to that insect ; " Brighton " refers certainly to 

 salicornicB, and, probably, to instahilella also, since Mr. Stainton had a 

 specimen from there, bred in 1854. I cannot understand why the 

 two food-plants of so-called " instahilella,'' given in the I. B. Lep. 

 Tin., and the additional one in the Ent. Ann,, 18G5, p. 84, should have 

 been omitted from the "Manual." 



The notes on ''' instabilella'''' by Mr. Douglas, in Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., y, p. 201 (1849) were doubtless made from both instabilella 

 and plantaginella ; of the localities, '" Essex " certainly, and, perhaps, 

 "mouth of the Thames," applies to both species, while "Ireland" 

 most probably applies to plantaginella only, for instabilella is not 

 known to occur in Ireland, where its food-plant is very rare. 



(To be continued.) 



