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and two female melanic Donacaulaforficella Thunb., New forest, \ Jams, 3.viii. Short 

 series of Pempeliella omatella D.& S., Folkestone Warren, Kent, 7.vii. A short variable- 

 series of Scoparia pyralella D.&S. which included the whitish forms alba Iutt and 

 ingratella Zell. all netted at dusk at Dungeness, Kent, 9.vi. An extreme melanic male 

 Synaphe punctalis F., Dungeness, Kent, 9.vi. A female A crobasis tumidana D.& S.. 

 Pagham, Sussex, 14.viii. A male and female example of the dark fuscous Form ol 

 Phycila roborella D.&S., St Martha's Hill, Surrey, 2l.vii. Two melanic specimens 

 of Elophila nymphaeala L., New Forest, Hants, 3.vii. Three male and one female 

 Anerastia lotella Hubn. showing variable degrees of grey dusting and dark subcostal 

 streak on the forewing, Yarmouth district, Norfolk, l.viii. 



Sterling, D. H., M. J. & P. H.—Opostega auritella Hubn., taken at m.v. light. 

 Barton Broad, Norfolk, 29.vii.1993. Glyphipterix schoenicolella Boyd, Arne, Dorset. 

 bred in numbers from seeds of Juncus bufonius L., not related closely to its only 

 known foodplant, Schoenus nigricans L. Acrolepiopsis assectella Zell., Barton Broad, 

 Norfolk, 29.vii.1993. Coleophora serpylletorum Her., bred from Thymus, Gt Orme 

 Head, North Wales, coll. 17. iv. 1993. Bryotropha umbrosella Zell., Merritown Heath, 

 Hum, Dorset, coll. 27.vii.1993. Cochylis pallidana Zell., Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, 

 coll. 27.vii.1993. Cnephasia genitalana P.&M., Winchester VC11, 28.vii.1990; 

 originally misidentified as C. pasiuana. Acleris logiana Clerck, two bred from Beiula 

 spinnings from Botley Wood, Hants., VC11, 20. ix. 1992. Pediasia fascelinella Hubn.. 

 Winterton, Norfolk, 28.vii.1993. Mecyna flavalis D . & S., three at garden m.v. light, 

 Winchester, 1993, the first post-war record for VC11; this follows first recent VC12 

 specimen exhibited 1988, since when there have been one or two each year. Homoesoma 

 nimbella Dup., Winterton, Norfolk, 27.vii.1993, gen. det. Cnaemidophorus 

 rhododactyla D.&S., bred from larvae on Rosa canina L., collected May June 1 993 

 in Epping Forest. Coleophora deviella Zell., Gibraltar Point NNR, Lines., 22. \ i. 1993. 

 Eulamprotes wilkella L., Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR, 23. vi. 1993. Monochroa 

 tetragonella Staint., Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR, bred from root of Glau.x 

 maritima L. coll. 26. vi. 1993. Bryotropha sp.; considered to be forms of B. mundella 

 Dougl., Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR, Lines., 23. vi. 1993; also included were two 

 from Winterton, Norfolk, 27.vii.1993. Gelechia hippophaella Schrank, Gibraltar Pt 

 NNR, Lines., from larvae on Hippophae rhamnoides L., coll. 22. vi. 1993. Olcthrcutcs 

 lacunana D.&.S., an extreme melanic form, Fir Hill Quarry NR. Dichrorampha 

 montanana Dup. Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR, examples on 23.vi.1993. 



Tuck, K. R. & Young, M. R. — A record of Cydia injectiva Heinrich. from North 

 Aberdeenshire (VC93), exhibited, together with an example of C. piperana Kearfott, 

 which has a very similar biology. See Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 7: 1-2; ls>94. 



Young, M. R. — Scarce Scottish Lepidoptera: Parorni.x alpicola Wocke (P. 

 leucostola Pel. -Clin.) Invernaver NNR, Sutherland, l.vi.1993. Elachista argentetta 

 Clerck, Longhaven, Aber., 4 & 5.viii.l993. Amphisbatis incongrueUa Staint., Dinnet 

 Muir NNR, Aber., 16.iv.1993. Xystophora pulveratella H.-S., Tulloch, Strathspey, 

 5.vi.l993. Bryotropha galbanella Zell., Glen Quoich, Aber., l.viii. 1993. Olcthrcutcs 

 metallicana Hubn., Glen Quoich, Aber., l.vii.1993. 



Foreign lepidoptlra 



Barrington, R.— Gipsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., a bilateral gynandromorph 

 (Plate 1, Fig. 15), bred in 1993 at the United States Department of Agriculture Mas- 

 Rearing Station at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The gipsy moth was introduced into 

 the USA from France in 1888/9 and has become a major forest pest in eastern IS\. 

 causing millions of dollars worth of damage each year. The Cape Cod Station has 



