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seeds ; Phoxopteryx mitterbacheriana, on oak ; P. laudana, between united 

 leaves of bush vech ; Stigmonota trauniana (regiana), under bark of syca- 

 more ; Carpocapsa splendana, in acorns ; C.pomonana, in apples ; G. gro&sana, 

 in beech nuts ; C.funebrana, in plums, and Pythechroa rugosana, on bryony. 

 I am compelled to dismiss these with bare mention, as I have a long list of 

 tineina to which I must now turn. 



Last month furnished a long list of the genus Depressaria, and in addition 

 to nervosella and heracliella, which still occur in the imago state, several 

 other species of the genus are now out. Subpropinquella may be noticed 

 among thistles ; capreolella occurs in some places, but very rarely, where 

 burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga) grows ; yeatiella should be looked for 

 among marsh hogs-fennel [Peucedanum palustre) ; granulosella is reputed to 

 occur on the sea coast about Deal, and rotundella and depresella are also 

 south coast insects. The last named may perhaps be met with by collectors 

 in Kent and Hampshire, among carrots and parsnips. Pimpinella should be 

 sought for wherever burnet saxifrage grows. Ultimella and pastinacella like- 

 wise occur now in the perfect state. The last named is the largest but one 

 of these little moths, and is only surpassed in size by heracliella. It expands 

 very nearly an inch, while heracliella often slightly exceeds it. In colour it 

 is pale greyish fuscous, with four blackish spots on the disk of each fore-wing, 

 two of which are before the middle and two are beyond it, there is also another 

 on the fold before the central portion of the wing. The fore- wings are 

 rather narrow in shape. Ultimella is about two lines and a half smaller. 

 The fore- wings are greyish fuscous, with a reddish tinge, and have many 

 longitudinal dark fuscous coloured streaks ; the hind-wings are whitish grey. 

 Subpropinquella is rather larger, expanding ten lines, and the fore-wings are 

 rather elongate in shape. The colour is brownish ochreous, and there are 

 two black dots on the disk before the middle and a small fuscous coloured 

 blotch. Capreolella I am not well acquainted with, I have never taken it, 

 and all I can say about it is, that it is a very small ochreous coloured moth, 



I expanding not more than half-an-inch ; the larvae feeds in June, on the radi- 

 cal leaves of the burnet saxifrage. Yeatiella we find in the Cambridgeshire 

 fens, but not abundantly. It is just a trifle smaller than subpropinquella , 

 and is pale greyish ochreous in colour. There are two black dots and a 

 fuscous coloured blotch, and also a white dot on each of the fore-wings, and 

 there is also a dark streak from the inner margin, not far from the base. I 

 have no personal acquaintance with granulosella or rotundella, Depresella 

 is a small reddish brown moth, with a pale yellow head. Each fore-wing has 

 a pale yellowish angulated fascia growing indistinct towards the costa, and 

 there is a large pale yellowish spot on the inner margin beyond the middle, 



