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little success, when a narrow-looking little Tortriz, upon one of them, attracted 
my attention. Of course it was soon secured (though not without “swarming”’), 
and as, by the uncertain glimpse which I obtained, it appeared to be Eupecilia 
ciliella, I was very well pleased to find two more at the next lamp. When, however, 
they came to be pinned, I found,to my surprise and delight, that instead of ciliella 
I had secured Eupecilia Degreyana. 
As will readily be supposed, the first opportunity that occurred, took me to 
the favoured spot to search for the haunt of the species. On one side of the road 
were market gardens—unpromising localities,—on the other, gentlemen’s houses 
and shrubberies, but just by the two lamps was a small piece of rough grass land, 
which seemed to have been formerly in cultivation, and still grew as much of weeds 
as grass. Here then was the only hope; so, getting leave from the proprietor, I 
went to work, and before very long secured my first specimen of the insect I had 
come to seek. It was, however, very scarce, and required long and careful working 
for, and it was some hours before I had secured a decent series. This was at last 
facilitated by the approach of dusk, when the Hupeciliw fly. Harlier in the day 
they often prefer being walked over. 
At the same time I feel sure that I discovered its food-plant, for every speci- 
men was among Plantago lanceolata, and would settle on nothing else. The 
favourite perch was across a flower-stalk, but sometimes they settled on the seed- 
head. ‘Taking into account the usual habit of the larvae of the genus, I feel no 
doubt that, in this species, it feeds in the seed-head of this plant. It must be 
confessed, however, that I have several times searched for the larva without 
success. On June 4th, I paid the place another visit, but Degreyana was worn and 
nearly over. 
A month later—July 6th—I chanced to be examining a rough sloping piece of 
ground at the side of a chalk pit, which was covered with Plantago lanceolata, 
when a lovely Degreyana started up ; this led to a search and the capture of four 
more, all beautifully fine, and in the course of the next few days I took a tolerable 
number of specimens, all among the same plant. On the 14th a specimen occurred 
two or three miles the other side of the city, and on the 18th, a most brilliant and 
lovely female at a gas-lamp in a fourth locality. On the 20th at the chalk pit 
they were getting quite worn out. 
However, on August 28rd, a fine specimen again turned up at one of the first- 
named gas-lamps, although the field had been mowed in the summer, and much of 
the food-plant made into (very poor) hay. This time other matters interfered, and 
I could not work for it, but I feel convinced that Degreyana, like atricapitana, 
Heydeniana, and probably some other species, has three broods in a season—end 
of May, July, and end of August,—and that it is widely distributed over this part 
of the country, appearing and disappearing as the plantain gets the upper hand, or 
becomes killed out by the grass. 
The capture of a good many specimens, and of different broods, is satisfactory, 
establishing as it does so thoroughly the distinctness of this species. Although 
varying from pale rosy-grey to a colour as brilliant as the brightest roseana, it 
never loses its distinctness, nor merges in the least into ciliella.—lIb. 
Note on Depressaria granulosella.—I had the good fortune in the autumn of 
1869, to find the neat little Depressaria granulosella rather commonly in a lane near 
