104 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



185. E. vectisana, Westw. 



Eupcecilia vectisana. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 273. 



Wilk. Brit. Tort., p. 306. 

 Phalonia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 549. 



Very abundant on Grreatham salt marsh. The insect flies 

 just before sunset, and I have seen it flying in hundreds about 

 the food plant, Triglochin maritimum. In the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, vol. xxv., p. 178, is a most interesting 

 account of the larva from the pen of Mr. E, E,, Bankes. It eats 

 the pith of the shoot, hibernates full fed, and sometimes changes 

 in the cocoon inside the flower stems, in which it passed the 

 winter ; sometimes it spins another cocoon, probably impervious 

 to water. Mr. Hodgkinson included this in his West Northum- 

 berland list, but that is evidently a mistake. 



186. E. affinitana, Doug. 



EupcRcilia affinitana. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 273. 



„ ,, Wilk. Brit. Tort., p. 307. 



Phalonia ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 549. 



Another salt marsh insect, the larva feeding in stems of 

 Aster tripolium. It occurs on Greatham marshes, but not in 

 anything like the numbers of the last species. Mr. Gardner 

 has bred it from there. Mr. Hodgkinson included this also in 

 his West Northumberland list, certainly in error. 



187. E. ruficiliana, Haw. 



Eupcecilia ruficiliana. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 274. 



,, ,, Wilk, Brit. Tort., p. 310. 



Phalonia ciliella. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 551. 



In the number of the Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer 

 for 11th June, 1859 (vol. vi., p. 82), Mr. Y. E. Perkins, then 

 of Newcastle-on-Tyne, says this species occurs amongst furze 

 bushes on the sea coast. If this is intended to imply that the 

 larva feeds on furze, it is an error, for it feeds on seeds of 

 cowslip. It occurs as stated and elsewhere along the coast, and 



