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more pointed wings of the present species, and was impressed by the agreement 

 between them in the whiteness of the anal tufts of the females. 



¥. SALICOLELIA, Bruand. — Staudinger calls this salicicolella — which is doubtless 

 what was intended — though not published. This is a curious little species, the fore- 

 wings of the male being decidedly narrow, so as to form a long slender oval, not 

 pointed at the apex ; shining brownish-black ; hind-wings rather short, rounded, pale 

 grey-brown with darker nervures. Bruand describes the female as like that of F. 

 crassiorella, but smaller, the anal tuft light yellow-brown. He also describes the 

 larva as dirty grey or very light brown, head shining black, jaws whitish ; feet black ; 

 the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments with divided, blackish, horny plates ; in a case which 

 is a little constricted at the mouth, but swells out in the middle and terminates in a 

 blunt point ; covered with little fragments of bark. Yery similar to that of F^ 

 hetulina, and living on lichens on old sallow bushes. 



This species was first recorded, in this country, in 1858, when both sexes were 

 said to have been reared, but I have not seen the specimens. Mr. Mitford afterwards 

 recorded finding three cases, from which he reared a male and two females, butj 

 unfortunately, his specimens, which are in Dr. Mason's collection, do not appear to 

 represent this species ; the male is certainly F. hetulina. In Mr. Bond's collection is 

 a case, possibly of this species, but which does not appear to have produced anything. 

 The only British specimen of which I have any personal knowledge was taken, more 

 than twenty years ago, by my old friend and companion, long since deceased, Edward 

 Gr. Baldwin. It was captured by him, if I do not mistake, on the vring early one 

 evening at Bishop's Wood, Hampstead — which, indeed, seems to have been the 

 head quarters of the group — and I have the most perfect recollection of it, since I 

 lost no opportunity of examining so unusual a species. It agreed precisely in shape 

 with Bruand's figure. I regret to say that I have utterly lost all trace of the 

 specimen, and cannot find out what became of Mr. Baldwin's collection. 



F. TABULELLA, Bruand. — I had given this species up. The specimens in 

 Mr. Bond's collection were obviously erroneous — apparently F. rohoricolella ; one 

 from Mr. Mitford's collection, in the possession of Mr. Philip Crowley, is really a 

 faded FpicJinopteryx pulla ; and the specimen reared by our lamented friend, 

 Mr. Machin, from a case beaten out of blackthorn at Box Hill, and which he gave 

 to me before his death, is certainly Fumea hetulina, both moth and case agree 

 accurately. The only remaining evidence appeared to be that of the specimen caught 

 forty years ago "flying round beeches, at Mickleham," and one similarly obtained 

 from Epping Forest; and indeed captured specimens in this group are difficult to 

 depend upon, unless there is a reliable difference in shape. But the appearance of 

 the first instalment of the present notes brought me a letter from an entomologist 

 well known for his acuteness and skill in finding and rearing larvae of our more 

 diiScult minute moths, and a zealous helper of Mr. Stainton, Mr. J. E. Fletcher, of 

 Worcester, which changed the whole aspect of the question. After asking whether 

 I had any knowledge of a Fumea larva on spruce-fir, and receiving my prompt 

 request for information, he wrote the following : — 



" The little I know of the Fumea of the spruce is as follows : — In the spring of 

 the year 1858, I beat from an old spruce (Abies excelsa) a single case-bearing larva, 

 from wliich, in the following summer, appeared a small brown <? moth, the wings of 

 one side of which were cramped. By some misadventure the moth was lost. 



