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black ; fore legs black ; anal legs of the ground colour : v. e. in a 

 web, just like that of Tortrix rosana, which occurred at the same 

 time on the same sloe bushes. Imago, vi. e." 



Tortrix rnurinana, Hiib. — " Larva greeii ; head and thoracic 

 segment black ; anal plate like the ground colour ; six black 

 warts on each segment. Bred from the neighbourhood of Baden, 

 where the larvae had destroyed whole fir plantations." 



The last three species have not yet been recorded from Great 

 Britain ; but there seems no reason why, as their food-plants are 

 so common, they may not occur with us. It appears that in 

 Germany they are all very local. 



Grapholitha microgrammana. — "Larva, viii. e. ix. b., in the 

 still green seed-pods of Ononis spinosa : yellowish white ; head 

 pale brown ; thoracic segment paler, with black dots ; the six 

 usual warts on each segment slightly darker, hardly visible ; 

 anal plate of the ground colour. Imago, vi. e. vii. b." The 

 imago has been bred in England from small oval sand-cocoons 

 found under Ononis, and caught flying always over that plant. 

 The larvse were suspected to feed in the seed-pods ; but, as far as 

 I know, had not been actually detected therein. 



Symmoca signatella. — " The imagos were found tolerably 

 commonly, vi. e. vii. b., resting on the trunks of an old lime tree, 

 and singly on oak and plum stems. The larva, which is slender 

 and full-fed, vi. b., lives in the chinks of the bark under a slight 

 web, feeding probably on lichens. It is very difficult to get it out 

 of its hiding-place. In appearance it bears much resemblance to 

 the larva of H. bracteella, being grey, with scarcely visible paler 

 warts; head and thoracic segment black-brown; on the 1st 

 segment (? 3rd) are four chitinous brown dots, the two lower 

 being the larger ; anal plate grey-brown. Pupa among the bark 

 in a slight web." This account is peculiarly interesting just now, 

 as the species has lately been taken in the London neighbour- 

 hood by Mr. A. F. Griffith, of Brighton. 



The only paper in the first two numbers of the ' Tijdschriffc 

 voor Entomologie ' for the present year, that will have any 

 interest for British lepidopterists, is a critical monograph, by 

 Herr P. C. T. Snellen, on the genus Hypenodes, Guen. He 

 distinguishes this genus from Hypena by the differently shaped 

 terminal joint of the palpi. In Hypenodes this is conical and 

 upright; in Hypena, flattened and blunter. Eight species are 

 enumerated as belonging to the genus, viz.: — H. costcBstrigalis, 

 Steph. ; H. tcenialis, Hiib. ; H. kalchbergi, Staud., S. E. Z., 187 6, 

 p. 139, from Sicily, Macedonia, and Derbent; H. halneorum, 

 Alpheraki, Hor. Ross., 1879, p. 137, from the Caucasus; 

 H. jucundalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 121, xxiv. pi. 5, 

 fig. 10, from Celebes; H. pudicalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent. xxxiii. 

 p. 178, pi. 7, fig. 9; H. minimalis, Snell., loc. cit., fig. 10, both 

 from Celebes and Java; H. obliqualis, Snell., loc. cit., p. 179, 



