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the " Darlington " of the ''Manual," but it is very common 

 almost everywhere, the larva feeding in bramble. 



392. N. sorbi, Stain. 



Nepticiila sorbi. Ent. Ann., 1861, p. 91. 



,, „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 721. 



This species appears only in the north and west, so far as I 

 know. Meyrick says it occurs from " Lancashire to Stirling." 

 The only record of it in these counties is that of Mr. Hodgkin- 

 son, who got it in "West Northumberland.* 



393. N. splendidissimella, H.-S. 



Nepticula splendidissimella. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 717. 



I have not found any record of the first introduction of this 

 species to the British fauna. The earliest notice of it which 

 I have seen is that Mr. Sang bred it at Darlington (see Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., iv., 153). The note is dated November 5th, 1867.t 

 He met with it again on the Tees-side at Blackwell, on October 

 13th, 1878. Mr. Hodgkinson also marks it as occurring in 

 "West Northumberland. The larva feeds in bramble and rasp- 

 berry leaves. 



TRIFURGULA, Zell. 



394. Trifurcula immundella, Zell. 



Trifurcula immundella. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 438. 

 „ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 727. 



This insect also extends further than Meyrick records. He 

 gives Durham as its northern limit, but Mr. Hodgkinson took 

 it in West Northumberland. In Durham the "Manual" gives 



* In Tutt's Nat. Hist. Brit. Lep., i., 289 (1899), N. sorbi was recorded 

 as found by Sang in the county of Durham, as well as at Richmond in 

 Yorkshire. 



I I believe that this note of Sang's contains the earliest record of the 

 occurrence of N. splendidissimella in Britain, though it is stated in Tutt's 

 Nat. Hist. Brit. Lep., i., 245 (1899), that Stainton's collection includes 

 specimens taken at West Wickham In 1857, and others bred by Healy in 

 1861.— E. R. B. 



