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from Mr. Bankes that even in South Dorset they may be 

 collected during May and part of June, and he has found them 

 feeding there as late as June 19th. Mr. Gardner has bred the 

 insect from larvae found, but not commonly, in Hezleden Dene. 



246. G. alcyonipennella, Koll. 



Coleophora alcyonipennella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 386. 

 ,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., 



p. 646. 

 Not uncommon locally in England, and the '' Manual " gives 

 it as abundant at Newcastle-on-Tyne, but Mr. Finlay never met 

 with it, and I have no other notice for Northumberland. The 

 "Manual" also marks it as occurring regularly at Darlington, 

 but Mr. Sang does not enter it in his diary as occurring there. 

 He took it in Castle Eden Dene as far back as 1857. Mr. John 

 Scott recorded the larvse on leaves of black knapweed 

 ( Centaur ea nigra) at Stockton-on-Tees (see Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer, vol. i., p. 20). Mr. Gardner has also bred 

 it freely from larvse collected in Crimdon Cut and at Greatham. 



246. C. frischella, Linn. 



Coleophora frischella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 386. 

 „ ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 646. 



Not being a micro-lepidopterist, I have been puzzled as to 

 why this species is now considered identical with C. melilotella, 

 Scott, in face of the distinction pointed out in all the earlier 

 notices of the latter between both the imagines and the larval 

 cases. Mr. Bankes, however, in explaining the matter, informs 

 me that in a paper published in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv., 1-5 

 (1888) he proved the identity oi frischella and melilotella, and 

 showed that the supposed imaginal differences were purely 

 imaginary, and that the reputed case oi frischella, which finally 

 remained as the only obstacle to their union, did not belong to 

 this species but to conspicuella. When I first took the insect, 

 about 1862, we called it melilotella. By this name it was taken 

 all around this district, viz., at Darlington by Mr. Sang, at 

 Stockton-on-Tees by Mr. Scott, at Hartlepool by myself, and 



