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Pines or Firs, -with the exception of Sequoia giijantea, and perhaps 
Taxodium semjgervirens, have been established there in any other 
manner. 
On one of the two days above mentioned, I observed a single 
larva of one of the Tortricuhe hanging from a branch of 
A. ceplmlonica. Having put it into a tin box, wdth a fresh shoot 
of the tree, I unfortunately failed to describe it, thinking at the 
time, that it was probably the larva of Batodes angmtiorana, llaw. 
It soon spun a few silken threads, and changed to a brown pupa ; 
but it had almost escaped my recollection, until on the 9th of July, 
when opening the box, I was agreeably surprised to find a living 
moth, which was quite unknown to mo. hlons. E. Eagonot, 
who has kindly examined it, assures me that it is Stegaiioptgcha 
yufhnitt'aiiaj II. S. J'his species was first noticed as occurring in 
this country by Mr. E. Meyrick (Ent. Mon. Mag. vol.xiii. pp. 188, 
189), who there describes two specimens taken by Mr. F. J. II. 
Jeidcinson at Cambridge. M. Eagonot informs me that the larva, 
although suspected to feed on Fir.s, has not hitherto been recognized. 
This is the fifth new, rare, or local Tortricid which has occurred 
within one hundred yards of the sainc spot. Ihese are as follows 
PamiSCA PROXIMAXA. 
Coccyx proximana, H.S., 127, vol. iv. (1849), p. 219 
Orth-otcenia piceana, We.st. & Humph, vol. ii. (1854), p. 1 < 2, 
pi. 99, fig. 14. 
Coccyx distinctana, Wk., Brit. Tort. vol. iii. (1859) ; Stn. l\[an. 
vol. ii. p. 216; Barrett, Ent. Mon. Mag. vol. x. p. 65. 
Grap)liolitha (PoscUsca) proximana, Hein., 165 (1863); Staudr. & 
Wocke, Cat. p. 1067. 
This occurs not uncommonly here, but I have never met with it 
flying about the common Spruce Fir (Abies communis), although an 
occasional specimen, found in company with its more common ally, 
best known in this country as Coccyx hyrcintana, M k., may have 
been beaten from this tree wdiere it grows in close proximity to Abies 
cepludonica. Hr. John Wood has found it in Herefordshire, and 
has bred it from larvae feeding on Silver Fir (Abies 2 )icea)—fioQ Ent. 
IMon. Mag. vol. xv. pp. 108 109. 
It is, probably, impossible to clear away the doubts which exist 
as to the original name given to this species. 
