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DiPiODOMA MARGINEPTJNCTELEA, Stph. — I have taken one specimen of this 

 widely distributed species here, elsewhere I have taken it in Dorset, Norfolk and 

 Surrey. It is easily recognised when taken by the odd way it has of buzzing head 

 downwards at the bottom of the net. 



BiABOPHANES FEEEiTGiNELiiA, Hb. — For the last two years I have got this 

 commonly for two or three days in the early part of July flying along a stretch of 

 about five yards of a long thorny hedge ; just at this spot there is a small water 

 hole, and the grass on the bank above grows very rank and tufty. I noticed that 

 the moths often settled on the panicles of the grass, but could not make out that 

 they were depositing ova. I used to take the variety lomhardica commonly in 

 Dorset at the side of a ditch in a saltmarsh, the bank of which was clothed with 

 rank tufty grass far from any trees or hedges ; in Portland last year I also took a 

 series of this variety as they flew along a stone wall at dusk, also at a distance from 

 any bushes. 



Tinea capeimctlgella, H.-S. — I take this occasionally on a fence between two 

 old elms. 



LiTA PEATEENEliLA, Dgl. — Is there not a confusion about the food-plant of this 

 species ? I have found it commonly both here and elsewhere feeding on Stellaria 

 graminea, but never on S. uliginosa, which is also common in the district in wet 

 ditches. 



Ptochetjttsa inopella, L. — This feeds in the heads of Inula dysenterica along 

 the banks of the Thames, where it must often be submerged for a week together in 

 the winter. 



Dasyceha Oliviella, F. — Here it is certainly attached to the ancient elms, 

 round the trunks of which it flies in the hot sun from 10 a.m. till noon for the 

 purpose of pairing. 



QEcOPHOEA LUNAEis, Hw. — I take this species regularly, though not commonly, 

 by sweeping hedges composed of hazel, alder, dogwood and such like broad leaved 

 shrubs, not necessarily near old trees ; no doubt the larva feeds under the bark of 

 dead sticks and twigs in the same way that (E. lambdella feeds on furze. 



CoEisciXTM Beongniaedellum, F. — Two broods of this occur, the larva feeding 

 in June and August. 



Oenix fagivoea, Stt. — In September of 1896 I found an Ornix larva here on 

 beech which had folded down the edge of the leaf in the same way that 0. betulce 

 does, and I thought it might be a stray of that species, but a very fine O.fagivora 

 emerged. Last August I found empty domiciles on the same bushes, and at the end 

 of September half a dozen larvse all feeding in the same way, which differ very 

 much from the figure in Stainton's " History of the Tineina." Up to now (May 

 18th) three imagines have emerged. This is on the Berkshire side of the Thames ; 

 no doubt the species would be found more commonly in the Oxfordshire beech woods. 



CoLEOPHOEA IIMOSIPENELLA, Dup. — I found fuU-fed cases of this on alder in 

 June, on elm in August, and on birch in October. 



C. ANATIPENELLA, Hb. — I found two cascs of the variety albidella on sallow 

 last year from which the insects duly emerged. I have also found the typical cases 

 here on sallow, which produced the usual type anatipenella. 



