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reliquana, abundant in oak uuderwoods. Argyrolepia stlbbaumannianat 

 abundant in one chalky locality. Tinea albipunctella, occasional ; T. nigri- 

 punctella, rare. Phylloporia bistrigella, not rare, among birch underwood. 

 Lavipronia luzella, rare in woods. L. pralatella, abundant in the same 

 same spots as L. luzella. Micropteryx mansuetella, very abundant. Nemo- 

 tois minimellus, occasional. Plutella crucij'erarum, abundant, but not by 

 any means the pest it appears to have been in many other districts. 

 Cerostoma sylvella, usually in fair numbers — it has been very scarce in the 

 past season ; C. alpella, not scarce ; C. lucella, scarce, but in precisely the 

 same spot as in past seasons. Pteroxia mucronella, a single specimen only. 

 Psoricoptera gibbosella, although looked for, was not found, where in a 

 former year it was abundant. Argyritis pictella, abundant on the Chesil 

 Beach, Portland. Aphodla bifractella, scarce. Ergatis ericinella, one only ; 

 in some seasons abundant on the heath. Cleodora cytisella, occasional. 

 Glyphipteryx schcenicolella ; from a similar number of rush heads, gathered 

 in 1891 and 1892, numerous specimens were bred in the former, but only 

 two in the latter, year. Tinagma betula, fairly abundant, but in nothing 

 like the numbers of the preceding year. Gracilaria elongella, occasional 

 both in birch and oak woods, and in an alder swamp; G. imperialella, one, 

 in fine condition, swept among low herbage in a swampy place, on the 

 22nd of August ; this is only its second record in the county of Dorset, 

 one having been taken at Glanville's Wootton by the late Mr. J. C. Dale, 

 May 25th, 1840. Coleoj^hor a discordella, ■dbandant. BedelUa sovmulentella, 

 bred freely from larvae mining the leaves of Convolvulus major ; they leave 

 the mine readily, and quickly eat their way in again between the two sur- 

 faces of the leaf : the moths come out at mtervals from the end of 

 September to the end of November; several were caught on the wing in a 

 wood, and one was beat from a hedge on Lodmoor, Weymouth. Cosino- 

 pteryx orichalcella ; two were swept among low herbage in a wood, on July 

 7th and 9th; one was in excellent condition, one worn : this is its first 

 record in the county of Dorset. Chauliodus illigerellus, abundant. La- 

 verna. lacteella, frequent ; L. rhamniella, scarce. Chrysoclista schrankella, 

 abundant. Asychna terminella, occasional. Antispila pfeifferella, one beat 

 from dogwood (abundant at Portland, but not before noted here); A. 

 treitschkiella, two bred from dogwood. Stephensia brumiichella, eight, 

 swept, mostly in fine condition, from June 1st to lllh. Elachuta magni- 

 Jicella, several, swept, in good condition, July 3Uih to August 18th ; E. 

 gleichenella, abundant, near the end of June ; E. albifrontella, very plen- 

 tiful; E. cinereopunctella, very plentiful in one locality, at the end of iVlay ; 

 E. luticomella, frequent, from the 10th to the end of June ; E. monticola, 

 abundant; E. tnegerlella, two, on August 4th; E. paludum, not scarce, 

 from June 1st to end ol August ; E. triatomea, one only, but it was late in 

 the season before its locality was found. E. poUinariella, one, new 

 to this district, but not rare at Portland. Lithocolletis anderidcB : I did not 

 succeed in breeding a single one this year out of 122(5 mines in birch 

 leaves — from these, however, there emerged 293 L. ulmifoliella, but very 

 lew ichneumons; in 1891, 630 mines produced 8 L. anderidce, 150 L. 

 ulmifoliella, and crowds of ichneumons. L. cavella, a few bred from birch 

 mines ; L. nicellii, ten bred from about thirty mines in hazel leaves, and 

 several beat from underwood; L. schrieberella, one bred from elm, new to 

 this district. Cemiostoma lotella, local, but the mines were observed in 

 several fresh localities, and two moths were swept. Bucculatrix nigri* 

 Cornelia, very abundant. Nepticula intlinella, several bred from birch and 



