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Scopelosoma satellitia, Crocallis elniguaria, Amphidasis pilosaria, 

 Ourapteryx sambucaria and Scythropia crataegella, and he gives the 

 following as feeding on the apple (not on pear), Miselia Oxyacanthae, 

 Euthalia psittacata, Eupithecia rectangulata, Simaethis pariana, Hypo- 

 nomeuta Malinellus and Gelechia rhombella. 



The Hyponomeuta Malinellus, which we have not yet found here, 

 is an insect as while as Evonymellus, a character which none of our 

 apple-bred specimens possess. Or do our specimens merely show an 

 insular variation from the continental type ? The point is worthy of 

 consideration. Certainly with us what we repute H. Padellus feeds 

 with great indifference on apple, pear, plum, &c. Cerostoma scabrella 

 is also an apple-feeding species which Speyer has omitted to mention, 

 but unfortunately I can say little about it, never having made its per- 

 sonal acquaintance. The Phibalocera Quercana may often be found 

 under its slight web, on the under side of apple-leaves. The larva of 

 Gelechia alacella, though not strictly speaking (as far as we at present 

 know) either an apple- or pear-feeder, patronises those trees, feeding 

 on the lichens growing on the stems. G. Rhombella, Speyer has 

 duly noticed ; G. leucatella is also an apple-feeding species, and 

 G. nanella loves to feed in the flowers of pears, forming little galleries 

 among the stamens, and uniting them with the pistil in a mode not 

 strictly botanical. Argyresthia curvella feeds certainly in the leaf- 

 buds of the apple and pear, though up to the present time I have 

 never met with it. Ornix guttea feeds on the leaves of the apple, 

 turning down a large piece, and eating the parenchyma from within, 

 just as the better-known O. Avellanella does on the leaves of the 

 hazel. Coleophora paripennella appearing quite omnivorous, of 

 course eats apple ; C. anatipennella is also sometimes found on apple, 

 but C. hemerobiella is very constant in its attention to pear-tree ; and 

 as it and C. nigricella are often found in company, the latter is often 

 assumed to be the juvenile form of C. Hemerobiella. C. siccifolia is 

 sometimes to be found on apple-trees, though it seems more partial to 

 hawthorn. 



The next and perhaps the most important thing we have to 

 mention is the black variety of Laverna atra, of which the larva feeds 

 in winter and early spring in the buds of the bearing spur of the 

 apple. Entomologists who have access to orchards would do well 

 to look after this destructive, yet in -most -cabinets -desiderated 

 insect. 



Of the genus Lithocolletis there is the under-side-feeding Fomi- 

 foliella and the upper-side-feeding Corylifoliella. Lyonetia ClerckelJa 



