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county. It differs from its relative in having a simple mine, and three chambers 

 instead of two. The mine is a small oval blotch, very like the mine of an Ornix, 

 and lies on the under-side of the leaf, generally close to the edge. The three 

 chambers are all alike, except in the matter of size, and are simple turnings-down of 

 the edge of the leaf, like the chambers of Ornix avellanella on nut. The larva is 

 undistinguishable from the birch form elongella. It spins up just under the edge 

 of the leaf, curling it neatly over ; and in this again it resembles an Ornix. The 

 back of the pupa is more broadly and intensely black than in the darkest elongella. 



Before concluding, I ought, perhaps, to say that, though in dealing with the 

 general history of the group, I have spoken as if acquainted with all the species, 

 I have, in fact, no knowledge of the larva of G. straminella, which, however, is now 

 considered by Mr. Stainton to be only a variety of Q. elongella, nor of the larva of 

 O. hemidactylella, a rare species, that appears not to have been taken of late 

 years, and is supposed to feed on Acer campestre, or on Acer psetidoplatanus. 



Tarrington, Ledbury : 



March \Sth, 1890. 



Lepidoptera at Haslemere early in the summer of 1889. — The beginning of the 

 past summer saw the realization of a long-desired and intended trip, a visit to my 

 old and favourite locality, Haslemere, the main object being to search for that rare, 

 if not lost, species, Madopa salicalis. The month of May was so hot that every- 

 thing promised most favourably, but on the very night before my journey (the 26th) 

 that whole district was visited by such a deluge of rain, that in the moraing all the 

 valleys were more or less flooded. The incessant downpour for about twenty hours 

 apparently almost killed out all the species then on the wing. Consequently, I did 

 not see a specimen of Leucophasia sinapis, which used to be common in the woods 

 at that date, and 3Iinoa euphorbiata and other species were only represented by 

 casual washed-out specimens. Sunny weather soon followed and fresh things quickly 

 appeared. Tephrosia consonaria was not uncommon on the large fir-trees — where, 

 indeed, some of them had evidently sheltered from the storm — and although, with 

 their usual perversity, they generally sat out of reach, they were quite amenable 

 to the persuasion of a long switch of mountain ash, and came flitting down. With 

 them, but lower down, T. crepuscularia, var. biundularia was common, and in fine 

 condition. Among Vaccinium myrtillus, underneath, Epione advenaria flew about 

 in the sunsliine, or sat with wings nearly erect, like a little butterfly. Capua 

 ochraceana and Phoxopteryx myrtillana were common among the Vaccinium, where 

 also Dasychira pudibunda and Odontopera bidentata were to be found at rest. Just 

 before I came away Hypena crassalis began to emerge : the males most lovely, from 

 their velvety blackness, but they were wary, and from their habit on first emerging 

 of sitting in shady places and hurrying into thickets and holly bushes when dis- 

 turbed, very hard to secure. A few days later, they would doubtless have been more 

 common, and would have taken to the tree trunks, where they are easily caught, 

 but I could not wait. 



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