The YOtMS HATtfRAUST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Pakt 78. JUNE, 1886. Vol. 7. 



SIX MONTHS' WORK AMONG THE 

 TORTRICES AND TINEITES. 



By ALBERT H. WATERS, B.A., F.S.Sc, F.P.N.S., &c. 



THE month of June is one in which all orders of insects are abundant, and 

 the Lepidopterist especially is fully employed. So large a number of 

 species of tortrices and tineites occur now, in the perfect state, that I fear it 

 is impossible to describe more than a portion of them. The grey Pczdisa 

 corticana is abundant about hawthorn hedges, Semasia Wceberana is com- 

 mon on apple trees, Coccyx nanana is abundant among spruce firs in the 

 Southern parts of England, the little brown, orange -spotted Trycheris 

 mediana flies in the sunshine among umbeliferous flowers, Stigmonota regi- 

 ana may be found about sycamores, .S. composana is common in Southern 

 clover fields, S. intermana and Catoptria ulicetana fly about furze bushes 

 (the latter in great abundance in the day-time,) Stigmonota coniferana fre- 

 quents scotch-fir trees in the North and Sericoris urticana is abundant in 

 most places among nettles, the long-horned A dela de-Geerella flies in woods, 

 Prays Curtis ella occurs about ash trees, Gelechia malvella is common in 

 some gardens where hollyhocks are grown, G. vulgella is generally common 

 by the side of hedges and Glyphipteryx thrasonella is abundant among 

 rushes. 



But these are only a fraction of the species which occur in June, Hyper* 

 mecia augnstana is common among sallows and willows, Penthina cynos- 

 bana is abundant by the side of every hedge, Clepsis rusticana is to be met 

 with in most marshy places, Tortrix ribeana is common in gardens, Pardia 

 tripunctana is abundant among wild and cultivated roses, Chrysocorys 

 festaliella is common in many places among brambles and raspberry canes 

 and many another species occurs now, some of which I will more particularly 

 describe further on. 



