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that year, and in the July following one was captured at Carmarthen 

 by Mr. Horton. Since then it has been more generally taken. I 

 don't know where ulmella is to be got ; the first were taken by Mr. 

 Dale many years ago, on the trunk of a wych elm at East Meon. 

 Scotica was brought forward several years ago by Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White, F.L.S. ; it very much resembles cemhralis, but is darker in 

 colour. I have remarked before that I am not at all sure we have 

 not the form in our own neighbourhood ; anyhow I have an example 

 in my cabinet, unfortunately without locality, but which I think in 

 great probability was taken here, which I can in no way separate 

 from a specimen of the true scotica (which by the way I am inclined 

 at present to consider only a variety of cemhralis) received from 

 Scoonieburn, near Perth. Ingratella is also a comparatively recent 

 species, being first noted in 1867 by Dr. Knaggs from specimens he 

 had taken in abundance in the celebrated warren at Folkestone ; 

 probably it only wants looking for to be turned up freely in other 

 localities. Lineolalis I have never seen alive, and know but little 

 about it, though it is said to be common at Doncaster. Cratcegalis is 

 a generally plentiful insect, both in the northern and southern 

 counties ; all my specimens came from Norwich. Eesimlis, to my 

 mind one of the prettiest of the group, is also widely distributed 

 and tolerably common ; hut pJioeoleuca is rare, being recorded from but 

 few localities as yet. It is taken in the Isle of Portland. Atomalis 

 and graciU^-l-'s are both Scotch species, but the former is very 

 plentiful where it occurs in Perthshire. Jlpinalis is also a Perthshire 

 moth, but I believe is of not unfrequent occurrence in some of the 

 English counties, and if I mistake not it has been taken, during the 

 season just over, by Mr. J. P. Parrett, in the Norfolk fens — a spot 

 with which its name certainly has no connection. The last species, 

 pallida, is a tolerably common one, occurring freely at Scarborough 

 amongst many other localities. 



The imagos of the species I have tested deposit their eggs tolerably 

 freely, and the larvae seem easily reared. They are nearly all moss 

 feeders, different species frequenting different mosses. A lot of eggs 

 of muralis just about hatching, which I placed on a pot of growing 

 moss last May or beginning of June, fed up very rapidly, so much so 

 that the second brood of moths was out in July. The larvse of many 

 of the species are totally unknown as yet, and even the mosses they 

 feed upon ; some few species indeed feed upon lichens, as resinalis on 

 lichens growing on ash trees in April, and lineolalis or lichens on 

 gloe, in June and July. Of those eating mosses which are known, 



