12G Lepidoptera during 1876, by William Shaw. 



Pltjtella Dalella. One specimen. 

 Depressaria costosella. One on oak. 



„ liturella. One. 



,, arenella. Several. 



,, Alstrcsmeriella. One. 



,, applanella. Common. 



Dasycera sulphurella. Under bark. 



O^COPHERA PSELTDOSPRETELLA. Common. 



Pterophorus Tephradactylus. Several. 

 „ microdactylia. Common. 



Alucita polydactyla. Common near honeysuckle. 



Orthcetenia antiquana. About the end of April, 1876, when 

 digging in the garden, I noticed the roots of Stachys palustris 

 very much swollen. Breaking one or two across, I found they 

 were mined by a small white larva. I kept several of them in a 

 tin box, where they remained until they were full-fed ; this was 

 about the end of May. Then they came up to the lid of the box, 

 where one of them spun a whitish web, but not finding it to their 

 taste they all went down again among the roots, some spinning 

 among the roots, others sealing up the end of the mine in the 

 roots with silk. The perfect insects came out in June. I fancy 

 the moth will lay its eggs in June or July, and the young cater- 

 pillars will mine down the stem into the roats, wounding them and 

 causing a partial thickening, in the same way as Pterophorus 

 microdactylias wounds the stem of hemp agrimony* ; they must feed 

 slowly during the winter months, as it is late in spring before 

 they are fed up. Merrin gives S. arvensis as its food-plant, but 

 S. arvensis is an annual, and is a seed all the time the larva of 0. 

 antiquana is feeding. 



[* It is to be hoped, that the author does not confound the natural tuber- 

 cular swellings on the roots, with injuries produced by the caterpillar which 

 mines them.] 



