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Box Hill, in July ; the majority of those collected were infested 

 with ichneumons. 



C. limonialla (G. atriplicivorella). Bred a great number from stems of 

 sea lavender, collected during the previous winter on the Essex 

 Salt Marshes. These larvae feed on the flowers, eating out one of 

 the petals and using it as a case, in which it moves about till full- 

 fed in December, then crawling down the stem, eating its way 

 inside, covering up the small holes with a slight web, soon after 

 which the cases drop off. 



C. ibipenella and palliatella. A long series of each from cases on birch 

 in May, at Wimbledon. 



C. ardcepennella. A few bred from cases on oak in May. 



C. therinella. Emerged rather freely from cases on thistles, found on 

 Hackey Marshes the previous October. 



C, muvinipennella. A few bred from cases found on Luzula pilosa. 



C. hemerobiella. A very few cases found on whitethorn in May. This 

 and the following seem to be getting very scarce ; these were 

 collected near Snaresbrook. 



C. badiipennella. A few bred from cases on elm. The hedges in the 

 lanes close to Leyton station, where this species used to occur, 

 are all cut down and the place is entirely built over. 



C. wilkinsonella. A nice lot bred from cases on birch, collected at 

 Snaresbrook, Epping Forest. 



B. sommdentella. A few bred from larvae feeding in the leaves of 



convolvulus sepium. Three years ago this larva occurred in abund- 

 ance in a lane, at Northfleet, since which, I have never found in 

 any season a dozen leaves with larvae in them, but it is a fact 

 often noticed with this species, of it occurring abundantly one 

 year, and as suddenly disappearing for many years after. 



C. druriella. A few bred from a great number of larvae collected 



mining the leaves of wild hop ; there is no keeping these wretched 

 little restless larvae in the cages, they squeeze themselves through 

 the finest gauze, which is the reason so few are bred. 



L. miscella. A few long series bred from larvae mining leaves of Heli- 

 anthemum vulgare. Collected at Sanderstead in June. 



L. raschkiella and conturbatella. Bred from larvae collected at Box Hill, 

 the former mining the leaves in July and the latter feeding in the 

 shoots, drawing them together with a slight web. 



A . trietskiella. A long series from larvae mining leaves of dogwood in 

 October, afterwards cutting out oval cases in which they remain 

 till the following year ; found in lanes about Bexley. 



