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the 3rd, 4th, and 6th, were quite confluent with the black bordering of 

 it. This specimen consequently comes near to many specimens of 

 Agesiis var. Salmacis <$ , only, that on the upper side it has more red 

 spots, and no white scales at all in the black transverse streak, the 

 underside shews the pale grey ground colour of our spring generation. 



In company with this species occurred a few specimens of Polyom' 

 matus Dorilis (Circe St.), so common with us. From the last year's 

 stems of Gnaphalium arenarium, which grows here everywhere in plenty, 

 I started up Conchylis zebrana not unfrequently ; yet it was already late 

 for it, and hence, most of the specimens were females and few of them 

 in good order. On the this-year's leaves I observed the larvae of 

 Bucculatrix gnaphaliella plentifully ; but I did not pause either for 

 these, or to seek for the cases of Coleophora gnaphalii which are deeply 

 concealed in the terminal shoots.* 



Of Clisiocampa castrensis I still found everywhere nests on the 

 most different low plants ; in many the larvae had already separated. 

 Botys sticticalis was not scarce ; one specimen I saw sucking from the 

 blossom of Seneoio vernalis, a plant which a few years ago had wandered 

 hither from the East. Ino Statices was already on the wing, thus at 

 an unusually early period for our neighbourhood, and especially con- 

 sidering the recent inclement weather. Gelechia diffinis (scabidella, Z.) 

 was already sparingly present, its food-plant growing abundantly on 

 the margin of the canal. From the dry last-year's stems of Artemisia 

 campestris, which here and there in the looser sand grows to very old 

 plants, I started a female of Qrapholita incana, a scarce species near 

 Meseritz ; I also obtained one $ of Conchylis Hichterana. I also saw 

 three Fidonia fasciolaria (zebraria, Tr.), (only one specimen of which was 

 very fine), sitting on the upper part of the Artemisia stems, with their 

 peculiar posture of the wings. On the margins of the ditches I took 

 two specimens of the spring brood of Lythria purpuraria, one, however, 

 already in very bad condition ; besides these, one specimen of Conchylis 

 straininea (Tischerana) , and several Elachista cygnipennella. 



Towards seven o'clock I lay down for a quarter of an hour at a 

 spot where there was no Thymus, and found whilst poking amongst the 

 grass and other plants, three specimens of Gelechia superbella, which 

 renders my conjecture as to its food-plant one which is scarcely 

 probable. 



On an open place abundantly grown over with Thymus, in the fir- 



* One obtains the imago of both species most easily by collecting the plant in quantities and 

 placing it in a roomy box ; there then appear also various other species, viz., Pane, pomposella, 

 Sophronia humerella, Botys terealis, Thalpockares paula. — P. 0. Z. 



