4774 Entomological Botany. 



Wockeelia, which was suspected of feeding on Genista tinctoria, 

 feeds on Stachys hirta, and perhaps on some other species of Stachys 

 (hirta not being a British plant). 



Genista anglica. Needle Whin. 



More generally distributed, I believe, than the preceding species, 

 but we are unacquainted with any larvae that feed on it. 



Sarothamnus scoparius. Broom. 



This plant, which seems to have a great partiality for railway banks, 

 is probably on that account much more plentiful with us than 

 formerly, and the broom-feeding species ought, in consequence, to be 

 of more frequent occurrence. The number of insects which feed on 

 broom is very considerable. Speyer enumerates Thecla Rubi, 

 Polyommatus Argus, Lasiocampa Quercus (though this is too poly- 

 phagous to deserve special mention), Hadena Genistas and H. con- 

 tigua, Mamestra Pisi and M. Chenopodii, Calocampa vetusta and C. 

 exoleta, Angerona prunaria, Geometra papilionaria, Hemithea cythi- 

 saria, Crocallis elinguaria, Boarmia crepuscularia, Speranza conspicua- 

 ria, S. spartiaria (not yet detected in this country, but closely allied 

 to S. conspicuaria), Chesias spartiata, Cabera strigillaria, Eubolia 

 mceniaria (the new species figured in the * Entomologist's Annual' for 

 1855), Pellonia vibicaria (formerly, like Trochilium Chrysidiforme, a 

 reputed British species), Acidalia aversata, Botys cinctalis and B. 

 limbalis (the latter not yet known as British). 



Of the Tineina the following may be mentioned: — Depressaria 

 assimilella, feeding in March and April, and fastening together several 

 twigs, not by the tips, but in the middle of their length ; D. costosa 

 and D. atomella, feeding on the leaves and flowers in May and June ; 

 Gelechia mulinella, feeding in April, in the same way that it feeds on 

 the flowers of Ulex Europaeus (Cleodora cytisella, though named 

 after the broom, we suspect is attached to the common fern, Pteris 

 aquilina) ; Anarsia Spartiella, feeding in the shoots; Gracilaria 

 Kollariella (not yet found in this country) feeds on this plant, as 

 well as on Lotus corniculatus, mining the leaves ; Coleophora satu- 

 ratella, the larva full-fed at the beginning of July, — the black case 

 has numerous short projections ; Lithocolletis scopariella no doubt 

 feeds on this plant, but we have not yet detected either the larva or 

 the mine ; Cemiostoma spartifoliella forms tracks beneath the bark in 

 winter and spring, and its snow-white cocoons may be found on the 

 branches in May ; and lastly, Trifurcula immundella is so manifestly 



