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albicostella in plenty, and Lampronia luzella : Lithocolletis scopariella, Elachista 
subobscurella, and Trifurcula immundella also turned up there, and at Barnes and 
Wan stead ; and on oak trunks at this latter place I took a good series of Laverna 
Stephens i ; Gelechia gerronella seems to be common wherever the furze grows : Gel. 
pinguinella was scarce, but occurred in the old locality. In Regent’s Park I took, as 
usual, in plenty, Gel. notatellci, Laverna vinolentella , Prays Curtisellus, Gel. 
luculella, and albiceps, and a few G. leucatella. C. vittella swarmed both here and 
in Hyde Park, where I also succeeded in securing five or six dozen Tinea caprimul- 
gella. This insect is very lazy, very local, and fond of dark corners : it may often 
be found hanging in cobwebs, where it remains perfectly still, apparently secure from 
the attacks of spiders. (Ecophora angustella, which is generally dispersed, was 
somewhat common at Wandsworth. 
Prom cocoons found in the cracks of oak trunks at Wanstead, I bred a good 
series of Cerostoma alpella, and from larvae and pupae on Convolvulus at Lewisham, 
the same of Bedellia somnalentella. Other Tinece, of which I obtained a few, were 
Gel. velocella at Barnes, Gel. distinctella at Sanderstead, j El. Gleichenella, Bedellella 
and stabilella, Pancalia Latreillella , and Stephensia Brunnichella at Boxhill, 
Argyresthia mendica, cnrvella, and pygmceella at Pinner. The larvae of Cosmopteryx 
Erurella occurred in profusion near Weybridge, and I now have a few small cases of 
Nemotois Schiffermillerell a from flowers of Ballota nigra collected at Gravesend : 
so that as far as Tineina are concerned, I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the 
past season. In Tortrices I have done very little: Diclirorampha sequana common 
near Ladywell Station and a beautiful Carpocapsa splendana at Croydon being the 
only ones worth mentioning. 
Feeding on flowers and seeds of hemlock in Headly Lane, I got eight larvec of 
an Eupithecia (of which seven were ielineumoned), green with a black head, of 
which I shall be glad to learn the name. — W. Warren, Park House, Stubbington, 
Fareham, Hants : September 17 th, 1S80. 
Pyroderces argyrogrammos bred. — My friend Baron von Nolcken spent last 
winter at Cannes and took home with him a number of pupae of Micro- Lepidoptera. 
Many of the perfect insects emerged during his journey from the South of Europe 
to the coast of the Baltic, and were spoilt past recovery, but some fortunately 
continued in the pupa state till he was settled at home, and then, when they 
emerged, he was able to set out at his leisure in Russia, many of the little gems 
whose home was in more sunny regions. Among the insects that he bred rather 
freely was Pyroderces argyrogrammos. 
This insect, first taken in Asia Minor by Professor Locw, and described in the 
Isis of 1847, by Zeller, who mentions that he had also met with it in Sicily and near 
Rome, has since been noticed in many parts of Southern Europe and occurs likewise 
in Hungary. 
Till I heard from Baron von Nolcken that he had been breeding this insect, I 
was not aware that its transformations had been detected. 
On writing to my friend for further details, he referred me to Milliere’s 
“ Catalogue Raisonne des Lepidopteres des Alpes Maritimes,” where at p. 359 lie says 
of this insect “ Mai, Cannes ; terrains cretaces des lieux arides. Tres-abondante sur 
les cliardons a flours jaunes ( Carlina lanata) , dont les chenilles rongent les graines.” 
