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generally flying off disturbed in a morning, but we never 

 learned enough of its habits to take it except singly. In 

 Yorkshire it is only recorded from Huddersfield, which Mr. 

 Porritt thought was an error, but he now announces that the 

 specimens were correctly named. I agreed with his earlier 

 remarks that the locality was an unlikely one. It should be 

 looked for in hilly places where wild thyme grows freely. 

 I would expect the cliffs along the Yorkshire coast might 

 produce it. It has been taken in the south-east of Scotland. 



NEPHOPTEEYX. 

 DIORYGTRIA, Zell. 



57. Dioryctrla splendidella, H. S. 



Dioryctria splendidella. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 369. 



This species is only given in Meyrick's Handbook, who 

 speaks of it as having been recorded only from Norfolk and 

 Cheshire, but as probably overlooked. Mr. Gardner took a 

 single specimen flying behind the Ropery at Hartlepool in 1891. 

 It is very difficult to explain the occurrence of solitary speci- 

 mens like this. The larva feeds beneath the bark of Pinus 

 sylvestris, " causing a lump of resinous exudation." The insect 

 itself is the largest and finest of the group, and Mr. Gardner's 

 specimen is as fine as bred. Insects that must have crossed the 

 sea are sometimes in beautiful condition, and we may imagine 

 them carried in an upper stratum of the air absolutely without 

 injury. There is a fir wood a few miles west of where this 

 specimen was taken, but if it was bred there, we would expect 

 to have got more than a single specimen. 



NEPHOPTERYX. 



58. Nephopteryx roborella, Zinc. 



Nephopteryx roborella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 175. 



,, spissicella. Leech, Brit. Pyr., p. 103. 



Phycita ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 370. 



Imago. Leech, pi. xii.^ fig. 6. 

 Laeva. Buck., vol. ix., pi. clviii., fig. 9. 



