2958 Insects. 



C. discordella. July 7th, sunset, Stoke rough ground ; not rare. 



Gracilaria semifascia. May, June, August and October, shrubs and furze- 

 hedges round Almoudsbury Hill, and from bramble-hedges, by beating ; not very 

 rare. 



G. sulphurella. September 6th, beaten off sallows and wild cherries ; not rare. 



Elachista basipallidella. June 28th, rides of Hortham and Haye Woods ; scarce. 



E. obscurepunctella. April 26th, flying in sunshine, from 12 to 4, by dry hedges 

 and brambles in meadows ; local, but not scarce. 



E. Pfeifferella. Same time and place as obscurepunctella, but more plentiful. 



Opostega crepusculella. July 6th, sunset, flying up out of aftermath clover, near 

 Winterbourn, and in Stoke rough ground. 



Bucculatrix aurimaculella. June 8th, sunset, flying over and settled on the Caiex 

 recurva, in low poor pastures, by sweeping chiefly ; not rare, though local. 



B. Boyerella. June 20th, beaten off elms, near Patchway ; not common. 



B. vetustella. June 20th, beaten off oaks, near Woodland ; vary rare. 



B. Frangulella. May 28th, beaten off elms, and in Stoke rough ground ; not rare. 



Neplicula floslactella. September 18th, beaten out of hedge of Woodland Copse ; 

 rare. 



Lithocolletis Spinolella. May and August, oaks and sallows in Hortham Wood ; 

 not rare. 



L. Schreberella. May 26th, off pollard wych-elm hedge of fir copse, at noon ; 

 local, but numerous. 



L. Ulicicolella (Vaughan). June 26, beaten out of furze-bushes, round large 

 quarry on Durdham Down, at noon ; not scarce. 



Pterophorus acanthodactylus. September 3rd, sunset, flying along grassy bank of 

 Woodland Copse ; scarce. 



P. punctidactylus. July and September, sunset, flying in same place as pre- 

 ceding, and on summit of the Quantock hills, among heather ; less scarce than the 

 preceding. 



I have specimens of some other Gelechiae and Elachistae, which T am advised are 

 new, but I delay noticing them till they shall have received the fiat of Mr. Stainton. 

 — J. Allen Hill; Almondsbury House, October 11, 1850. 



New British Micro-Lepidoptera. — Among the insects I obtained from Mr. Weaver, 

 captured by him in his recent excursion to Scotland, was a pair of Tineae, pr., taken, as 

 he informed me, in grubbing up ants nests, while in search of larvae. The insect in 

 question, my friend Mr. Stainton informs me, is the Tinea ochreella of Tengstrom, who 

 appears to have found two specimens, in separate years, upon ants nests ; certainly a 

 singular habitation for a Lepidopteron. I have long possessed a remarkable unset 

 Crambus, of my own catching in the vicinity of London, I think near Guildford ; not 

 having the opportunity of thoroughly investigating it, although evidently distinct from 

 all others, Mr. Stainton forwarded the specimen to Zeller, who has returned it as the 

 true Lythargyrellus (accompanied by a German example) ; we, therefore, must now 

 reintroduce that name into our lists, and record the species as a real addition to our 

 Fauna. — J. F. Stephens ; Eltham Cottage, October 23, 1850. 



Capture of Epunda Lichenea. — Nearly one hundred specimens of this insect have 

 been taken at New Brighton. I have taken nineteen specimens, most I found sitting 

 on dead sticks and the roots of grass in the hedges. The first was taken on the 9th 

 of September. — Stephen Robson ; Liscard Vale, near New Brighton, October 2, 1850. 



