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Wilkinson's " Tortrices, " page 57) occurs; 

 but is not common. I have bred one 

 from a larva found in a folded leaf of 

 Statice Umonium,, T. viburnana. Larvae not 

 uncommon in twisted tops of sea wormwood. 

 Two or three specimens of the red form (Curtis' 

 ■"British Entomology," plate 763, 2nd fig. of 

 T. galiana) bred. One netted at Eastwood. 

 T. viridana, abundant. A few specimens netted 

 on the open marsh where one would hardly 

 expect to get this species. T. ministrana, East- 

 wood; rather common. T. forsterana, Soiithend 

 and Eastwood ; not common. 



Dichelia grotiana. Eastwood ; not common. 



Peronea rufana. Leigh ; scarce. P. variegana, 

 Southend, Leigh and Benfleet; common and 

 variable in Southend gardens. P. ferrugana. 

 Eastwood ; not common. 



Rhacodia caudana. Eastwood ; not common. 

 This moth is curiously like one of the fragments 

 of dead foliage which fall so freely under the 

 beating-stick in the autumn. 



Teras contaminana. Very common and variable. 



Bictyopteryx loeflingiana. Eastwood ; not un- 

 common. D. holmiana. Southend ; not common. 

 D. bergmxnniana and B.J'orskaleana, very common. 



Argyrotoza conwayana. Eastwood and Leigh ; 

 common. 



Ptycholomalecheana. Eastwood; bred from sallow. 



Ditula hartmanniana. Common among Salix at 

 Benfleet. 



Penthina corticana. Eastwood; scarce. P. 

 betulaetana. Eastwood ; not common. P. pruniana, 

 very common. P. variegana. Southend, Leigh 

 and Benfleet. P. gentiana. Larvae very common 

 in heads of Bipsacus at Eastwood. 



Antithesia salicella. Common on fences under 

 bushes of Salix. Looks remarkably like the 

 excrement of a bird. 



Hedya ocellana, H. aceriana, and H. dealbana 

 are all common. 



Spilonota trimaculana. Benfleet and Southend ; 

 not uncommon. 8. roborana. Shoeburyness ; not 

 common. 



Pardia tripunctana. Southend and Eastwood ; 

 common. 



Aspis udmanniana. Larvae common. 



Sideria achatana. Southend and Benfleet ; not 

 uncommon. 



Sericoris littoralis. Shoeburyness ; common. 

 8. urticana,, Hockley and Eastwood. 8. lacunana, 

 very common. 



Roxana arcuana. Hockley and Eastwood ; 

 rather common. 



Orthotaenia striana. Southend; not common. 

 O. branderiana, larvae not uncommon in rolled 

 aspen leaves at Eastwood. 0. ericetana, Benfleet ; 

 not common. 



Phtheochroa rugosana. A few on fences at 

 Southend. 



Cnephasia politana. Benfleet ; once only. C. 

 musculana, Eastwood and Shoeburyness. 



Sciaphila nubilana. Southend and Benfleet. S. 

 conspersana, bred from sea-wormwood, yarrow, 

 ragwort, and ox-eye daisy. S. subjectana and S. 

 virgaureana, generally common. S. chrysan- 

 theana, Eastwood ; not common. S hybridana, 

 abundant on the river walls. 



Sphaleroptera ictericana. Bather common ; bred 

 from ox-eye daisy. 



Capua favillaceana. Eastwood; very common in 

 Carpenter's Wood, where there is much hornbeam. 



Bactra lanceolana. Common in ditches among 

 Scirpus maritimus. Large examples of the testa- 

 ceous brown form ta,ken by Mr. S. Stevens and 

 referred to in Wilkinson's " Tortrices," pages 

 146-7, still occur. 



Phoxopteryx siculana. Eastwood ; one only 

 from a pupa found on buckthorn. P. lundana, 

 Leigh and Eastwood ; not common. P. diminutana 

 and P. mitterpacheriana. Eastwood ; not common. 

 P. lactana. Eastwood ; scarce. 



Grapholitha ramella. Eastwood; scarce. G. 

 nisella, Eastwood, bred from sallow catkins. G. 

 nigromaculana, not uncommon among ragwort. 

 G. subocellana, Eastwood ; common. G. trima- 

 culana, abundant. G. penkleriana and G. obtusat<a, 

 Eastwood ; not common. G. naevana, Southend ; 

 scarce. G. geminana, Eastwood ; not common. 



Phloeodes tetraquetrana. Eastwood ; common. 

 P. immundana, Eastwood ; scarce. 



Batodes angustiorana. Southend and Eastwood. 



Paedisca b lunana. Eastwood; not common. 

 P. corticana, abundant. P. profundana. Eastwood ; 

 not common. P. solandriana, Eastwood. P. 

 sordidana. Eastwood ; one bred from sallow. 



Ephippiiihora brunnichia?ia. Southend and East- 

 wood; rather common. E. trigeminana, Shoe- 

 buryness, Leigh, Benfleet and Pitsea. E. tetra- 

 gonana, Eastwood. 



Semasia ianthinana. Southend. S. rufillana, 

 larvae common in the heads of Daucus carota. 

 8. woeberiana. Southend. 



Coccyx splendidulana and C. argyrana. East- 

 wood ; not common. 



Carpocapsa splendidana. Eastwood ; not common. 



Endopisa nigricana. Benfleet, Leigh and East- 

 wood. 



Stigmonota compositella. Southend and Canvey, 

 once on a salt-marsh. £. nitidana. Eastwood ; 

 common. S. regiana. Southend ; common. S. 

 roseticolana. Eastwood ; not common. 



Dicrorampha politana. Leigh and Southchurch. 

 D. sequana, Benfleet and Hockley, rather common. 

 D. petiverana, Southend ; not common. D. 

 plumbana and D. plumbagana, common. P. acum- 

 inatana, Eastwood ; scarce. 



Catoptria albersana. Larvae at Eastwood. C. 

 ulicetana, Shoeburyness and Eastwood ; abundant. 

 C. hypericana, Benfleet and Eastwood ; not 



