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plantation along the above mentioned Carex-marsh, Pyrausta purpuralis 

 was not at all scarce, but it could hardly fly on account of the deficiency 

 of sunshine. Only one bad female of Ancylosis cinnamomella occurred, 

 and Lycoena Hylas, which probably sat concealed amongst the ' needles ' 

 of the fir-bushes, did not allow itself to be seen, as already mentioned. 

 From a few old juniper bushes I beat out some Argyresthia arceuthina. 

 From the tufts of Festuca ovina I started not unfrequently Elachista 

 dispiellla, and thereby became perplexed as to my previous suspicion 

 that Corynephorus might be the food of its larva. 



On a narrow fallow-field, between the plantation and|the marshy- 

 meadow, I obtained towards sunset a beautiful male of Homcsosoina 

 nimbella, and an equally beautiful <$ Conchylis posterana, which, in its 

 style of flight and its whitish appearance whilst on the wing, shews the 

 greatest resemblance to Conchylis zebrana, and amongst several 

 Oxyptilus tristis, which had evidently flown over from the adjoining spot 

 carpeted with Hieracium pilosella, was a single O. distans, which was 

 instantly recognisable by its size and dark colouring. I afterwards 

 started from the edge of the ditch a Platyptilus, which appears very 

 like gonodactylus, but is strikingly smaller, and therefore deserves a 

 close examination, especially since I have found specimens precisely 

 similar in other places.* I immediately suspected that there must be 

 Tussilago in the neighbourhood, and truly found, on making a more 

 accurate investigation, that a short distance from the spot were a few 

 plants of Tussilago farfara, which had established itself here, and which 

 had previously escaped my notice. From one bush of Salix repens I 

 beat out after sunset several bad specimens of Phoxopteryx inornatana, 

 H.S. As I returned along the side of the canal, I observed a male of 

 Hydrocampa lemnalis flying briskly amongst the rushes. 



The 19th of June. 

 The weather being dull and windy, but warm, I set off about 3 p.m. 

 to collect more specimens of Setina Kuhlweinii and Goleophora gnaphalii. 

 Along the road, and afterwards on a grassy place near the canal, rather 

 shaded with aspen bushes, the males of Fpiniphele Janira were flying 

 tolerably common, this species was now just making its appearance. 

 Further towards the " Judenberg," I found on a weedy border of the 

 road some Lyccena Icarus {Alexis) and Adonis together, and at the 

 edge of a lupine-field the Lyccena Argus $ . On the eastern wall of the 

 "Judenberg" (which to-day I did not visit) an Agrotis subsequa, S.V. 



* In writing a notice, for the Entomologische Zeitung, of Wallengren's Treatise on the Swedish 

 Pterophoridse and Alucitae, I felt myself necessitated to treat of this doubtful new species in some 

 detail under the name of Platyptilus farfarelltts.—P. C. Z. 



