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falbalas. The mined places on the Astragalus leaves are of a pearly 

 white and very conspicuous. 



Vicia sylvatica. Wood Vetch. 



An elegant climbing plant, most frequent in mountainous districts. 

 It is fed upon by Psyche viciella and Toxocampa Viciae, according 

 to Speyer; but Guenee gives Vicia dumetorum, which is not a British 

 plant, as the food of the last-named species. 



Vicia Cracca. Tufted Vetch. 



A plant which from its long tufts of deep blue flowers early attracts 

 our attention. It delights to grow in hedges and bushy places, and 

 is often mercilessly stripped of its blossoms by the young botanist, 

 who deems, on finding it, he has got a prize. This is the principal 

 food-plant of Toxocampa pastinum, of which the larva feeds in May. 

 Speyer also cites as feeding on it, Gnophos obfuscaria. No Tineina 

 larva has hitherto been observed upon it. 



Vicia Septum, Bush Vetch. 



Abundant in lanes and borders of woods, and one of the first of the 

 genus which greets us in the spring with its dark purplish flowers. 

 Speyer gives as feeding on this Ptychopoda remutata. Two years 

 ago a Tortrix ? larva was observed on this plant, and also on Lathy- 

 rus pratensis, feeding in September and October, between two united 

 leaflets, of which it devours the inner epidermis : these larvae, though 

 not uncommon, all perished in the winter, and we are unaware to what 

 species they should be referred. This plant is, however, most noto- 

 rious for being the favourite food-plant of the lovely Lithocolletis Bre- 

 miella. This species, according to Professor Frey, of Zurich, frequents 

 those plants which grow in shady borders of woods, mining the under 

 side of the leaf; the larva appearing in July and again in September 

 and October. 



Pisum, Pea. 



Speyer mentions as feeding on this, Calocampa vetusta and C.exoleta, 

 Mamestra Pisi, Noctua brunnea and Endopisa nebritana. I am not 

 aware of any Tineina larvae attached to it whilst in a growing state, 

 though dry peas are eaten very readily by Endrosis fenestrella and 

 (Ecophora pseudo-spretella. 



