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 A HISTORY OF CORNWALL Z. trifolii is very local, but usually abundant where it occurs. Pocris statices is common but local, in open places, meadows, and near woods in the south-east of the county. It is not infrequently met with about Truro, and is common at Godolphin. TORTRICINA EPIBLEMIDAE Chrosis littoralis seems to be abundant in most situations on the coast where thrift is plentiful, including Scilly. Bactra lanceolana is among rushes usually one of the commonest of insects in May and June. B. furfurana has been taken among reeds in East Cornwall and at Swanpool. Eucosma hartmanniana has been reported from the woods on the right bank of the Tamar in July. Two specimens of E. betuletana were taken by Perkins at Heligan, near Mevagissey. E. variegana is generally distributed along the south, and common in woods and lanes. E. ochrohucana is common in woods and in tall hedgebanks in the east, but has not been recorded for the west. E. pruniana is abundant, but somewhat local. The last two species when at rest closely resemble the droppings of birds. E. oblongana is apparently rare, as a single specimen taken by Atmore near Penzance and one in the Lynher valley are the only county records. E. sellana is recorded by Baily from Paul, near Penzance, and E. dimidiana by Marshall from Botus Fleming. E. nigricostana has been taken by Peter in the neighbourhood of Launccston. There is a record for E. rupana from Liskeard, but it is almost certainly in error for E. purpurana which has been taken there. E. urticaria is common but local in the southern half of the county. E. lacunana is fairly general about open woods and along country roads with broad bramble-covered margins. E. bifasciana was taken in Bishop's Wood, Truro, by J. J. Lory in July, 1901. E. striana was captured frequently by Cocks at Falmouth, but has not been seen there for the last forty years. Evetria buo/iana, though usually scarce, has occasionally done a good deal of damage to Pinus insignis in different parts of the county by mining into the young shoots. E. pinivorana attacked some young Pinus sylvestris in similar fashion near Liskeard a few years ago. Enarmonla cruciana is common in the woods and willow clumps in the east of the county, but has not been found west of Bodmin. E. nanana was caught by Baily near Godolphin, and two specimens of E. pinicolana were taken by the same entomologist near Land's End. E. corttcana is also rare, and probably confined to the district round Botus Fleming, where Marshall caught three. E. woeberiana is local, and fortunately nowhere common as yet. It has been taken in orchards about Callington, Truro, Penzance and Newquay. Tmetocera ocellana is common in thick hedgebanks and in tree clumps in the south-east of the county, and as far west as the Looe valley. It was common in 1901 at Heligan, Mevagissey. Eudemis naevanazs a wide distribution, but is generally scarce. Atmore found it common at Penzance, and in 1904 it was plentiful at Newquay. The beautiful Ancylui derasana is rare, but has been taken along the right bank of the Tamar. A. lundana has only been recorded from the Looe valley. A. biarcuana has been occa- sionally found on the banks of the Gannel. Gypsonoma dealbana has bee-n obtained by Marshall in East Cornwall. G. neglectana occurs somewhat sparingly at Cotehele. Cydia obtusana has been obtained several times among oaks in the east and north-east of the county. C. trimaculana has been taken in the woods at Doublebois, and C. ramella has been found by Tellam at Bodmin. C. achatana was recorded by Cocks at Falmouth, and there is a specimen marked 'Penryn' in the museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall at Truro. C. strobilella was obtained by Marshall in the east of the county, and C. nigromaculana was taken by Peter in the neighbourhood of Launceston. C. citrana, generally regarded as belonging to the eastern and northern districts of England, was found in abundance at Scilly by Jenkinson in 1877. A solitary specimen of C. pupillana was taken by Price on Artemisia near Fowey. About half a dozen specimens of C. aemulana were seen over a clump of golden rod, and two secured by E. Pearce at Pencalenick early in July, 1902. Notocelia uddman- niana is evidently distributed throughout the whole county, including Scilly, but is nowhere common. N. rosaecolana was taken on sweet-briar not far from Callington in June, 1905. N. trimaculana is widely distributed on hedgebanks and in gardens, but it is seldom one sees more than five or six even in a favoured locality in the course of the season. N. roborana is somewhat local, occurring rather sparingly in broad hedges, tangled copses and open woods near the Tamar, and about Liskeard, Falmouth, Penzance and Wadebridge. For three seasons now there has been a colony of N. incar- natana in the Restorma! valley, near Lostwithiel. Epiblema tripunctana occurs in the oak woods about Millook, in the gardens at Flushing and Penzance, and probably elsewhere. E. subocellana is taken occasionally in the east of the county. A fine specimen of E. ptnkleriana was captured among the hazels near Kilkhampton about the end of June, 1902. E. nisella was reported by Marshall as scarce about Botus Fleming, and has been obtained at sallow up the Lynher valley. E. immundana was taken at Heligan, near Mevagissey, in May, 1901, and near the Tamar in April, 1904. 220