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bilberry grows. Argyana abundant about oak trees. Splendidulana is wide- 

 ly distributed, and may be recognised by its glossy olive-brown wings, slightly 

 arched costa, and pale pearly blotch on the middle of the inner margin, be- 

 yond which is a black dot. Fimbriana has wings three times as long as 

 broad, dull ochreous-brown in colour, clouded and streaked with dark -brown, 

 with whitish-grey blotch in the middle — not very distinct — and a silvery- 

 edged rather indistinct ocellus. Eyemana is rather an anomalous insect, 

 which seems neither a tortrix nor a tineite ; it has semi-transparent greyish 

 brown wings, expanding 9£ to 10 \ lines. It is abundant in mild springs 

 in oak woods. 



The larvse of the Tineina occurring now are rather numerous, and include 

 the lichenivorous Talceoporia pseudo-bombycella, SolenoHa inconspicuetta and 

 Xysmatodoma melanella. The first-named is whitish, with a black head, and 

 lives in a long slender case ; inconspicuetta makes a three-sided greyish-green 

 case, and melanella a rather short one. They all may be looked for on old 

 palings. Other kinds are Ochsenheimeria Birdella, in grass steins * Lampro- 

 nia prtelatella, in a flat case on the underside of wild strawberry leaves ; Z. 

 rubiella, in shoots of raspberry ; Plutella porredella, in gardens on dames' 

 violet (Eesperis matronalis) ; Depressaria assimilella, in united broom twigs; 

 2>. nanatella, in leaves of carline thistle (Car Una vulgaris) ; Gelechia rufes- 

 centella, in tubularly rolled grass stems ; G. mulinella, in flowers of furze 

 and broom ; G. diffinella, in a burrow near the roots of sheep's sorrel (Rumex 

 acetosella) ; G. affinella, in moss on old walls (pinkish, head black) ; G. 

 domesticella, red brown, head brownish black, larger than affiinella; G. 

 vulsella, between united hawthorn leaves; G. tricolorella, on leaves and 

 and shoots of greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) ; G. instabilella, in mines 

 on leaves of sea plantain (Plantago maritima) ; G. arundinetella, in leaves 

 of the common great carex [Car ex riparia) ; GlypJiipteryx Haworthetta, on 

 seeds of cotton-grass (Eriophorum) ; Argyresthia ephippella, in shoots of 

 cherry ; A. glaucinella, in bark of oak trees, horse chesnut, &c. ; A. goedar- 

 tella, in bark of alder and birch trees ; A. brockeella, in shoots of birch ; A. 

 aurulentella, in juniper leaves ; Gracillaria Iringipennella, in plantain leaves ; 

 G. ononidella, in leaves of clover and rest-harrow (ononis) ; Coleophora junci- 

 lolella, in a case formed of small-heath leaves ; C. solitariella, in a cylindri- 

 cal whitish case on greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) ; C. vitisetta, in a 

 blackish wrinkled case on cowberry ( Vaccinium vitis-idcea) ; C. albitarsellay 

 in a slender case on ground ivy and marjoram ; C. cAaleo-gramella, on field 

 chickweed (Cerastium arvense) ; C. pyrrhulipennella, in a slender shining- 

 black case on heath ; C. lixella, which has very interesting trait of feeding on 

 Thymus serpyllum when young — making a habitation out of the calyx of a 



