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October 21st, 1860." Stainton also found larvfe at Monte Maris, nr. 

 Eome, on March 14th, 1866. Threlfall records imagines on June 9th, 

 at Witherslack, and Durrant on July 16th, 1896, at Barcote. The 

 following list, however, of specimens captured at large by Stainton, 

 shows its continuous broodedness : April 4th, 1848, at Lewisham ; 

 May 26th, 1848, May 21st, 1850, at Lewisham; May 17th-18th, 1851, 

 at Beckenham ; June 9th, 1848, at Beckenham ; June 20th, 1849, at 

 Lewisham ; June 24th, 1871, at West Wickham ; July 21st, 1849, at 

 Lewisham ; July 25th, 1849, at Mickleham ; August 25th, 1851, at 

 Lewisham. Bred specimens are recorded as follows : February 22nd, 

 1853, April 17th-20th, 1853, April 30th, 1855, May 5th-llth, 1852, 

 May 7th, 1853, September 21st, 1853, November 16th, 1851 (from 

 larva full-fed October 19th, 1851, that formed a white cocoon) ; 

 December 2nd, 1862, December 7th, 1852, all from Lewisham lame. 



Localities. — Aberdeen: rather scarce (Ileicl). Berkshire: Barcote 

 (Durrant), Reading (Hamm). Cambridge : Cambridge, common (Fanen). 

 Cheshire : Birkenhead (Stainton) ; abundant everywhere (Ellis). Derby : Burton 

 (Sang). Devon: Dawlish (Stainton), Teignmouth (Jordan). Dorset: Bloxworth 

 (Cambridge), Purbeck (Bankes), Glanvilles Wootton (Dale), Portland, Weymouth 

 (Richardson). Durham: Darlington (Stainton). Fermanagh: Enniskillen (Part- 

 ridge). Gloucester: Bristol (Vaughan). Herts: Cheshunt (Boyd). Hereford: 

 Tarrington (Wood), Leominster (Hutchinson). Kent: Lewisham, Tenterden and 

 West Wickham (Stainton). Lancashire: Manchester (Stainton), Southport 

 (Hodgkinspn), abundant everywhere (Ellis). Leicester : Market Harborough 

 (Matthews). Norfolk : Norwich, Merton, probably everywhere in county (Barrett), 

 King's Lynn (Atmore). Northumberland: Newcastle (Stainton). Somerset: 

 Castle Cary (Macmillan). Suffolk : Leiston (Walsingham). Surrey: Mickleham 

 (Stainton), Haslemere (Barrett). Sussex: generally distributed and common in 

 Sussex, Worthing, Bognor, etc. (Fletcher), Guestling (Bloomfield), Lewes (Stainton). 

 Westmorland: Witherslack (Threlfall). Worcester: Worcester (J. E. Fletcher). 

 Yorkshire : York, plentiful (Hind), Doncaster, abundant (Corbett), Scarborough 

 (Stainton), Harrogate and Richmond (Sang), Huddersneld (Inchbald), Sheffield 

 (Doncaster). 



Distribution. — Generally distributed in the British Islands, but 

 not so general on the continent of Europe. Meyrick writes : "Central 

 Europe and N. Africa." France : Mentone (Stainton), Nohaut, Indre 

 (Sand), Alpes-Maritimes (Milliere). Germany : Bonn (Frey), Sandsee 

 (Hering). Italy: Central Italy (Wocke), Leghorn and Montenero 

 (Mann), Monte Maris, nr. Kome, nr. Florence (Stainton). Nether- 

 lands : Friesland (Snellen). Frey writes : " I have only seen a single 

 Continental specimen of N. aurella, which was taken near Bonn. It 

 does not occur at Zurich." 



nepticula fragariella, Hein. and n. gei, Wocke. 



Wocke described {Catalog, etc., p. 336, no. 3005) a species under 

 the name of N. gei. This, in his continuation of Heinemann's 

 Schmett. Deutsch., p. 740, he sinks as synonymous with N. fragariella, 

 Heyd., stating that he no longer finds differences between the speci- 

 mens bred from Fragaria and Geum rivale. He says that the specimens 

 vary in glossiness, in the colouring of the basal part of the fore- wings, the 

 colour of the head, and in the width of the dark purple-brown band 

 preceding the metallic band. The variation in the mines, he considers, 

 may be explained by the differences in the food-plant. He then states 

 that he believes N. nitens, Fologne, the larva of which feeds on 

 Agrimonia, to be referable to the same species. .Eppelsheim was in- 

 clined (Stett. Ent. Zeit., li., pp. 229-235) to separate them on the 

 following grounds ; — 



