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New Forest, common, Isle of Wight (Fletcher), Sanclown(Pi'out),Go3port,nearBrocken- 

 hurst (Bankes), Bournemouth (Cowl), Basingstoke, Pamber Forest (Hamm), King- 

 wood (Fowler), Southampton (Curtis). Hereford: Tarrington (Wood). Hertford: 

 Hertford (Stephens). Kent : Pembury( Weir), Bromley, Farnborough (Alderson),Lee 

 (Turner), Bexley, Eltham, Chislehurst (Bower), Chatham (Edwards), Strood (Tutt), 

 Norwood (Healy), Dartford Heath, Lewisham, Beckenham (Stainton), Darenth 

 Lane and Wood (Curtis). Lancashire: near Manchester (Stainton). Leicester: 

 Leicester (Sang teste Gardner). Middlesex: North London (Healy), Kingsbury 

 (Stainton). Norfolk : general in west and north-west — Kings Lynn, &c. 

 (Atmore), Norwich, Backheath (Barrett), Merton (Walsingham). Northumber- 

 land: Newcastle-on-Tyne (Stainton). Somerset: Brislington (Vaughan). Staf- 

 ford : Cannock Chase near Rugeley (Freer). Suffolk : Thorpe, Aldeburgh (Crutt- 

 well). Surrey: Kingston-on-Thames (Lucas), Addington, West Wickham (Healy), 

 Shirley, very common (Warren), Coombe Wood (Curtis), Bipley (Stephens), 

 Croydon (Prout). Sussex: Hastings (Ford), common, Worthing, Hayling, Charman- 

 dean (Fletcher). Yorks : generally distributed, Doncaster (Corbett), Scarborough 

 (Wilkinson), York (Stainton), Selby (Ash). 



Distribution. — Asia Minor : Bithynia (Staudinger), Brussa(Mann). Austko 

 Hungary: Innsbruck (Weiler), Brunn (Gartner), New Sandec (Klemensiewicz), 

 Galicia — Radowlice, Dobrowlany, Lemberg, common (Nowicki), Croatia, Dalmatia, 

 Tyrol, Gradischa in Upper Carniola, near Vienna (Mann), Buda (Treitschke), 

 Lavantthal (Hofner), Preth (Zellev), Trafoi (Wocke), S. Tyrol— Bozen (Rebel), 

 Belgium: generally distributed and common (Fre), Brussels, &c. (Lambillion). 

 Denmark: common (Bang-Haas). Finland: near Helsingfors, Abo, Uleaborg 

 (Tengstrom). France : Dept. Saone-et-Loire in mts. (Constant), Aube (Jourd- 

 heuille), Douai (Foucart), Nohant, St. Florent (Sand), near Le Havre, Pyrenees- 

 Orientales (Dupont), Alpes-Maritimes, mts. 800-1200 metres (Milliere), Doubs — 

 Jougne, Chevigney, d'Andeux(Bruand),Cambrai (Constant), Cannes (Chapman), St. 

 Aygulph, Napoule (Walsingham). Germany: generally distributed (Heinemann), 

 Mulhausen, Sommerda, Quedlinburg, Gottingen, Aix, Krefeld (Jordan), Wetterau, 

 Frankfort, Wiesbaden, Cassel (Koch), German Alps — between Prad and Gormagoi, 

 Waldeck, Arolsen (Speyer), Erfurt (Keferstein), Berlin, Silesia, general in the 

 plains, Glogau, common, Probsthain Peak, singly, Lahr (Zeller), near Dantzig 

 (Tiedemann), Lower Elbe dist. — the Haake (Schmeltz), Nassau (Bossier), Wiirtem- 

 berg (Hofmann), Ratisbon (Schmid), Upper Lusatia (Moeschler), Pomerania 

 (Hering), Dessau (Bichter), general in Baden, the Rhine Palatinate (Reutti), 

 generally distributed and common in Brandenburg (Sorhagen), Munich — Hirsch- 

 garten, Nymphenberg, Hartmannshofen, Schleissheim, Sternberg (Hartmann), 

 Konigswinter near Drachenfels (Jordan), Alsace — La Schlucht (Peyerimhoff), Han- 

 over (Glitz), Frankfort-on-Oder (Kretschmer), Dresden (Fischer), Eiiangen (Hof- 

 mann), Brunswick (Nowicki), Swinemund, Grunhof, near Stettin (teste Durrant). 

 Italy : Northern and Central Italy generally (Curo), Tuscany, marshes 

 near Pisa (Mann), Piedmont (Ghiliani), Milan (Turati). Netherlands: very com- 

 mon in drier parts of country, occurs in most provinces and Friesland (Snellen), 

 Arnhem (Ver Huell), South Holland — Noordwijk, Wassenaar, Gelderland, Oosten- 

 beck, Ede, Velp (Graaf), Lichtenbach, near Arnhem (Grebner). Roumania : Gru- 

 mazesti, Neamtz, Slanic (Caradja). Russia: Baltic Provinces — Werro (Sintenis), 

 Livonia (Lienig), Neuhof, Pichtendahl (Nolcken), Dubbeln, very common (Teich), 

 St. Petersburg, Esthonia, Astrachan (Erschoff), Scandinavia : Scania, West Goth- 

 land, Gothland, Upland (Wallengren). Spain : Castile (Staudinger), Bilbao (See- 

 bold). Switzerland: up to 4,500ft., Zurich (Frey), Valais — Gamsen (Duponchel), 

 Lausanne (Laharpe), St. Blaise-Neuveville (Couleru), highlands of Bergim (Zeller), 

 Arolla, Fusio, Locarno (Chapman), Lucerne (Walsingham). 



Family : luffiidae. 



This family is one of the most interesting of those belonging to 

 the Psychids, although previously no attempt has been made to work 

 out the details of the life-histories of the species included herein, nor 

 to define its relationships with the allied Psychid families. Many 

 difficulties still remain to be cleared up in connection with the economy 

 of the species, but we have a very fair knoAvledge of their affinities. 

 At present we are able to refer two genera only to the family — Luffia 

 and Bacotia. In the first genus we have been able to study the life- 



