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 A HISTORY OF CORNWALL is a local but abundant species along broad hedgebanks, in thickets and in gardens from Bude to Callington and Liskeard. A solitary example of C. favlllaceana was taken at Mount Edgcumbe in May, 1900, and it has been reported from Menheniot. Sparganothu pilleriana was taken by Marshall on the south coast. Cacoecia piceana has been captured by Tellam at Bodmin. C. podana is generally distributed and plentiful on hedges and in gardens. C. crataegana is local, and evidently nowhere common. It has been taken lately at Millook and at Bishop's Wood, Truro, and has been reported from Bodmin and Paul. C. xylosteana occurs sparingly on hedgebanks and in country lanes between the Tamar and Liskeard. C. rosana is occasionally taken in the southern half of the county from the Tamar to Penzance. C. sorbiana is found in most years between Doublebois and Bodmin. C. costana has been taken twice in the Wadebridge district. C. unifasdana is common about Launceston, especially in gardens, and occurs at intervals along the south of the Bodmin moors and in the Land's End district. In 1905 it was abundant at Boscastle. C. lecheana is reported by Marshall as of frequent occurrence in East Cornwall, and C. musculana was taken by Marryat near Looe, and was recorded last year from Newquay. Pandemis corylana and P. heparana are common along the Tamar and west to Bodmin and Lostwithiel. P. ribeana is found in country lanes and gardens all over the county, but is usually somewhat scarce. P. cinnamomeana has been taken by Tellam at Bodmin, and by Baily at Penzance. Tortrix forska leana occurs plentifully some years along Tregoll's Road, Truro, the last year of abundance being 1902. It was reported by Cocks from Falmouth. T. bergmanniana is local but widely spread, and common in some of its haunts. It has lately been abundant about Launceston. T. ministrana is fairly common as a rule in the east and about Boscastle. T. conwayana occurs sparingly along the southern half of the county, and is at times plentiful in the Land's End district. T. locfl'mgiana is common in country lanes and thickets as far west as Doublebois. T. vlridana appears in numbers every now and then on oaks all through the county, but in a general way is rather scarce. In 1901 some oaks at Doublebois were badly attacked by the larvae of this species, and in 1905 a clump at Millook was disfigured by them. T. paltana was hatched out of caterpillars on plaintain gathered near Malpas. T. viburniana is abundant locally in some seasons in the east of the county. Odd leaves of ivy are not infrequently skeletonized in the neighbourhood of the Tamar, about Liskeard, and more rarely in the middle and west by the larvae of C. forsterana. T. politana was bred from larvae found by Miss Snell on Myrica gale near Shortlanesend, Truro. T. chrysanthemana was taken by Cocks at Falmouth many years ago. In July, 1900, Pearson took three near Pendennis Castle. T. virgau- reana is rare in East but abundant in West Cornwall when the season is favourable. T. mcertana is common in luxuriant hedgebanks and thickets nearly all over the county. T. nubelana is some- what scarce in hedges between Mount Edgcumbe and the Looe valley. T. pascuana occurs not infrequently in the Land's End district. T. conspersana has been taken by Atmore near Land's End, and by Adkin at Scilly. T. longana is evidently very local. It was taken by Marshall at Botus Fleming, by Baily near Penzance, and was bred from Scillonian specimens of Silene inflata by Adkin. Isotrlas hybridana is rare, but has been obtained by Marshall in East Cornwall, and by Cocks at Falmouth. Cheimatophila tortricella is common among oaks at Millook, and evidently all over the district between the Tamar and the Bodmin moors in February and March. It is apparently common in the middle and west, but the earliness of its emergence probably causes it to be over- looked. PHALONIADAE Lozopera francillana has been bred from larvae found among the seeds of wild carrot near St. Clement, Truro. L. dilucidana was captured at Scilly by Jenkinson. Phalonia badiana is widely spread, but everywhere scarce. P. cnlcana has been bred from thistles collected at Altarnun. P. tesserana is occasionally taken about Liskeard where wood gives way to down-land. P. vectisana has been bred from the heads of sea-plantain gathered at Padstow, and P. ciliella from the heads of cowslips at Hayle. P. udana has been captured several times by a tiny pond in the valley of the Gannel. P. nana appears to be confined to a few birches in the Upper Tamar district. P. atr't- capitana has been bred several times from ragwort from the middle and north of the county, and P. pallidana from the heads of sheep's-bit at Truro. Eupocdlia maculosana was raised from larvae found in the seed-pods of the wild hyacinth at Pencalenick by Miss M. O. Gregg. Anhotaema ulmana has been caught a few times about Hayle. Larvae presumably of this species have been found several times in folded leaves of the lesser celandine, but have not so far been successfully reared. Euxanthus angustana has been taken in woods near South Hill, Callington. E. straminea was found locally abundant by Atmore in the Penzance district among the heads of knapweed. E. zoegana is very local ; it has been taken at Altarnun, at Bodmin and at Bishop's Wood, Truro, and was found by Baily to be plentiful on cliffs near Land's End. E. hamana is not so local, occurring more or less regularly over the cast and south of the county. Hystemsia inopiana was found by Atmore about Penzance among Inula dysenterica. 222