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Tityrelld^ is given in the " Manual " as being abundant at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne and Darlington. Mr. Hodgkinson found it 

 in West Northumberland, and Mr. Finlay said it was generally 

 distributed among beech, but uncommon. Around Darlington 

 Mr. Sang got it in Coniscliffe Lane and Baydales. I have no 

 doubt it is common in most places among beech, but I have no 

 further records. 



384. N. glutinosae, Stain. 



Nepticula glutinosce. Staint. Man,, vol. ii., p. 436. 

 ,, ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 721. 



Another species limited northwards to Durham by Meyrick, 

 which Mr. Hodgkinson has found in West Northumberland. 

 The "Manual" gives it as occurring at Darlington. Mr. Sang 

 has taken it at Stanhope, well into West Durham. He gives no 

 Darlington habitat, and the insect may occur only in the west. 

 The larva feeds in alder leaves. 



* This species should be called by its older name hasalella, H.-S., 

 but of course we respect our author's rule to adliere to the names used in 

 the "Manual." 



Great confusion prevailed until recently about our two closely-allied 

 beech-eatiug Nepticidce. These should be known [See Tutt's N. H. Brit. 

 Lep., i., 297-302 (1899)] as (1) turicella, H.-S., which has the pale fascia 

 non-metallic, and (2) basalella, H.-S., in which the pale fascia is strongly 

 metallic. The latter is the true tityrella, Stn., as described by Stalnton in 

 the " Manual " and elsewhere, but in 1888, failing to recognise it as such, 

 he imfortunately redescribed it as " fulgens, n. sp.", under which name it 

 stood for some years in British collections, where also turicella, H.-S., was 

 wrongly standing as " tityrella.^'' As I have shown above in the synonymy, 

 tityrtlla, Stn., i.e. hasalella, H.-S., is entered as two distinct species In 

 Meyrick's "Handbook," firstly under the name tityrella, and secondly 

 under that of fulgens. 



Presumably the Darlington and Newcastle-on-Tyne records In the 

 " Manual " belong to hasalella, H.-S., but without seeing Hodgkinson's 

 and Sang's specimens I cannot tell whether their entries are really referable 

 to hasalella or to turicella. — E. R. B. 



