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[Since T sent the above note my specimens of P. Qeryon have been verified by 

 Dr. Knaggs. I forgot also to state that Nemeophila plantaginis has turned up here. 

 I caught several specimens in a wood in June. — H. U., 13th August, 1869.] 



Captures at Folkestone. — Two days collecting at Folkestone, at the beginning 

 of this month, resulted in my having captured the following : — In the Warren I 

 obtained Sesia chrysidiformis, 8. ingratella, a probably new Ephippiphora, and a 

 full fed larva of S. euphorbiana ; and, along the Sandgate Road, T. Bondii,D.fiavi- 

 dorsana, G. conterminana, and C. citrana. L. Adonis swarmed everywhere on the 

 chalk, and 8. irrorella was sufficiently common in the Warren. Mr. Ullyett has 

 discovered a locality there for P. globularioe and Qeryon, which both he and Mr. 

 Purday have taken. Mr. Purday kindly took me to the spot, and I had the pleasure 

 of seeing both species alive for the first time. — Howard Vaughan, 12th July, 1869. 



Sesia clirysidiformis bred. — This species made its first appearance in my breeding 

 cages yesterday, from larva? I found at Folkestone last autumn. They are all 

 remarkably large specimens. — Id. 



Notes on some of the British species of Psychidce. — I have lately bred about a 

 dozen specimens, $ $ , of Psyche anicanella, Bruand. It feeds on the green 

 lichen on buckthorn stems at Hampstead. Some years since Mr. Tompkins found 

 a larva, or rather a case, and bred from it what I believe was understood to be 

 salicicolella of Bruand. I have hunted for this species ever since without success, 

 till last year, when I first bred a $ , and then a ? , which latter at once overthrows 

 the salicicolella theory, as Bruand's species of that name has the anal tuft of the 

 female brown, whereas this was white.* These two species — salicicolella and 

 anicanella — are very distinct, and different from all others save P. fusca, their cases 

 being made with the materials placed crosswise, and no lengthy straws or grass 

 are used. I send a list of the different species of these very interesting little 

 insects that I possess, either as imagos or case. I have most of the females in 

 alcohol. 



1. fusca } Caso made of short materials, 



2. salicicolella ? r placed crosswise, or 



3. anicanella J irregularly. 



4. pullella 



5. sp. ? Larger than the last ; taken 



in July. 



6. intermediella ,/ Case made of long materia 



7. crassiorella ^ placed invariably 



8. roboricolella [ lengthwise. 



9. sp. ? Near the last, but with the wings 



much more rounded. 

 10 & 11. Cases only ; undetermined. 

 Robert Mitford, Hampstead, Juhj 22nd, 1869. 



[In Staudinger & Wocke's Catalogue, anicanella, printed in error anicalella, 

 is given as a synonym of betulina, Zeller (1839) in the genus Epichnopteryx. — Eds.] 



* Bruand says of anicanella, "the anal tuft of the female is snowy-white."— Eds. 



