A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



ENDOTRICHIDAE 



Endotricha flammealis, SchifF. Torquay ; Dartmouth ; 

 Lyntoit; Martinhoe. Locally common 



SCOPARIIDAE 



Scoparia cembrae, Haw. Lynton ; Morthoe ; Hart- 

 land. Common at Teifftmouth 

 * — ambigualis, Tr. About trees 

 * — dubitalis, Haw. 



— muralis, Curt. Has repeatedly been recorded 



in the county. It may exist on the Tors of 

 Dartmoor and at the Valley of Rocks. Its usual 

 home is in the north of England and Scotland 



— truncieolalis, Stn. In fir woods nr. Exetet 



and in A''. Devon 



— resinea, Haw. Alphinffon ; Stoke Wood ; also 



at light at Exeter ; Morthoe. Local 



— crataegella, Hb. Exeter; Honiton ; Barnstaple 



— mercurella, Linn. Gen. dist. 



— lineola,Curt. Exeter 6^itnct\ Morthoe. Very local 



— angusta, Gurt. Plymouth and Drake's Island — 



where it is distinctly double-brooded ; also 

 at Teignmouth; Sidmouth ; Dartmouth, and 

 elsewhere near the coast 

 * — pallida. Curt. Braunton Burrows ; Teignmouth ; 

 Dartmouth. In marshy places 



PTEROPHORIDAE 



Platyptilia isodactylus, Zell. Formerly found in 

 some numbers in a marsh nr. Teignmouth by 

 the late Dr. R. C. R. Jordan 



— gonodactylus, SchifF. Sidmouth; Chudleigh; 



Seaton ; Teignmouth. Among coltsfoot 



— zetterstedtii, Zell. Z.j;«ft«. Taken by Mr. R. South 

 •Amblyptilla acanthodactylus, Hb. Exmouth ; Sal- 

 combe ; Teignmouth ; Exeter ; Honiton ; Mor- 

 thoe ; Hartland. Among Ononis, but the 

 larva has been found in gardens feeding on 

 the buds of scarlet geraniums 



§ — punctidactylus, Haw. Stoke Wood ; Plymouth ; 



Honiton; Hartland 

 Mimaescoptilus phaeodactylus, Hb. Torquay ; 



Teignmouth ; Exmouth ; Plymouth. Among 



rest-harrow 



— bipunctidactylus, Steph. Common among 



meadow scabious everywhere 



— fuscus, Rtg., pterodactylus, Linn. Stoke Wood ; 



Morthoe. Among Veronica chamaedrys 

 Aedematophorus lithodactylus, Tr. Morthoe. 



Among Inula 

 *Pterophorus monodactylus, Linn. 

 Leioptilus tephradactylus, Hb. Lynton; Heddon. 



Among golden-rod 



— lienigianus, Zett. Taken in a lane between 



Teignmouth and Haldon, in 1892, by Mr. B. 

 A. Bower 



— osteodactylus, Zek. Exeter; Lynton ; Martinhoe. 



Among golden-rod 



— microdactylus, Hb. Plymouth ; Seaton; Teign- 



mouth. Among hemp-agrimony 

 Aciptilia baliodactylus, Zett. Torquay. Among 

 marjoram 

 • — pentadactylus, Linn. Among bindweed 



ORNEODIDAE 



Orneodes polydactyla, Hb. Common among 

 honeysuckle 



PHYCITIDAE 



Phycis spissicella. Fab., roborella, SchifF. Stoke 



Wood ; almost Exeter, at light 

 Dioryctria abietella. Recorded without locality by 



Mr. Parfitt, but doubtless to be found in fir 



woods 



— palumbella, SchifF. Taken at Kght nr. Exeter 



by Mr. Studd ; doubtless to be found on 

 the heaths 

 Salebria carbonariella, Fisch. Dartmouth ; Lynton 



— carnella, Linn. Torquay and Babbacombe 

 Hypochalcia ahenella, Schiff. Exeter district 

 Crytoblabes bistriga, Haw, In Mr. Parfitt's lists, 



without locality 

 Acrobasis consociella, Hb. Stoke Wood, nr. Exeter; 

 Lynton; Heddon. Among oak 



— tumidella, Zinck. Exeter district j Heddon. 



Among oak 

 Rhodophaea advenella, Zinck. Taken at light at 

 Exeter 



— marmarea. Haw. Exeter district, among black- 



thorn 

 Euzophera cinerosella, Zell., artemesiella, Stn. 



Alphington. Taken in Mr. D'Orville's garden. 



Feeds on wormwood 

 Pempelia ornatella, SchifF Mr. Parfitt records the 



capture of two specimens at Coaver, but 



these may belong to the next species 



— dilectella, Steph. Valley of Rocks; Lynton; 



Heddon ; Hartland. Among thyme 

 Alispa angustella, Hb. Recorded in Devon by 



Mr. Parfitt. No known locality 

 Homaeosoma sinuella, Fab. Teignmouth ; Exmouth. 



On the coast among plantain 



— nebulella, Gn. Exeter district. Among musk 



thistle 



— binaevella, Steph. Exeter district. Very 



scarce 



— nimbella, Zell. Exmouth ; Morthoe. Among 



camomile 

 Ephestia kuhniella, Zell. Exeter. In flour mills 

 * — elutella, Hb. Exeter. In a chemist's shop — 

 doubtless in dried fruit stores everywhere 

 Plodia interpunctella, Hb. In similar places 



ANERASTIIDAE 



Anerastia lotella, Hb. Exmouth Warren, Morthoe. 

 On coast sand hills 



CRAMBIDAE 



Platytes cerusellus, SchifF Dunsford ; Plymouth; 



Bridestozve. Locally abundant 

 Crambus falsellus, SchifF. Torquay. Scarce 



— pratellus, Linn. In every grassy place 



— hamellus. Thumb. Exmouth Warren 

 * — pascuellus, Linn. In meadows 



— uliginosellus, Zert. Mr. Porritt records its 



capture by Mr. D'Orville, without locality 



— margaritellus, Hb. Taken on the clifts, 



among coarse herbage, at Exmouth, towards 

 Budleigh Salterton, in June (E. Parfitt). It 

 'is difficult to understand how he could be 

 mistaken in so definite a statement ; yet this 

 species is notoriously restricted to the moors 

 and mosses of Scotland and the north of 

 England 



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