LEPIDOPTEBA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 
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others, on old fruit trees at Redlaud and 
elsewhere, the species seems to have quite 
died out in this neighbourhood, and there 
seems now to be little hope of our discovering 
the male, or of solving the mystery connected 
with this curious species. See Entomolo gist's 
Weekly Intelligencer, Vol. VI., 28, and 
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Vol. VI,, 
P2). 91 — 93. 
PozcHoiDES VEBHUELLELLA. H. The fii’st British specimen 
of this still local insect was taken at Almonds- 
hury by Mr. Allen Hill. See Insecta Britan- 
nica, Vol. III., 39. Stapleton, Almonds- 
hury; Leigh Woods. The moths fly in the 
sunshine, and the larvae burrow under the 
fructification of Asplenmin, &c., on old walls. 
Diplodoma maeginepukctella. S. Two specimens were 
taken by Mr, Harding at Stapleton, and a few 
near Almondsbury by Air. Hill. They fly 
near hedges, at dusk, in June and July. 
Xysmatodoma melanella. H. Scarce near Bristol, Hurd- 
ham Down, Stapleton, and Almondsbury. Mr. 
Harding and I took several larvae on the trees 
on which we found the cases of S. j^omoncs, 
and bred both sexes. Air. Harding thought 
the last-named species might prove to be an 
apterous form of melanella, there being little 
difference in the cases from which they were 
reared, but his view has not been generally 
accepted. See Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 
zine, Vol. VI., pp. 91 — 93. 
„ argektimaculella. S. Scarce near Bristol, 
by Mr. Hill, in Woodland Copse, Almonds- 
