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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK D. cnicella on Eryngium at Southwold, D. chaerophylli on Chaerophyllum temulum, D. granulosella on Anthriscus vulgaris, D. badiella and D. ciliella. Of the sixty species of the old genus Gelechia, G. gerronella, G. celeraella, G. picieila, G. Lyellella, G. Hermannella, G. sequax, and G. alacella are all scarce. The little Clcodora cytisella has lately been proved to feed on the brake-fern, among which it is usually taken. To these we may add Hypsilophus fasciellus at Tuddenham, Nothris verbascella at Bury on Vnbascum pulverulentum, Dasyctra olivierella at Stratford St. Mary and Felixstowe. Oecophora lunarls is rather common about Ipswich, and the larger O. lamhdtlla, whose larvae feed in the stems of gorse, has been taken at Aldeburgh, Leiston, and Southwold ; the very rare Butalh cicadclla has occurred singly at Brandon and Tuddenham ; B. grandipmnis also feeds on the furze bushes in the latter locality. Glvphipterygidae Of our nine species we need only mention RosUrstammia trxlehenella from Ipswich, and the rare Perithia obscurepunctella from Copdock. Argyresthiidae Of the sixteen species scarcely any are rare ; Cedtstis Gysselinella, which used to be considered a northern species, is now not uncommon in the Breck district, and Zelleria hepariella was taken at Leiston by the Hon, Beatrice de Grey. Gracilaridae Of the eleven species, several hibernate and are found in the spring ; Gracillar'ta stigmatella is then seen not uncommonly ; the larvae of G. tringipennella mine the leaf-stalks of the ribwort plantain, G. elongella is found among poplar, and the larvae of Corisctum Brongniartellum lives beneath the cuticle of oak-leaves, causing extensive bladdery mines. COLEOPHORIDAE Lord Walsingham records the rare Cohophora inflatae from Brandon, where occurs the very local C. saturatella. None of the larger species seem common, but C. anatipennella is found at Aldeburgh and Bentley Woods, C. palUatella at Copdock, C. currucipennella at Aldeburgh, C. siccifoliella makes its case of a dead leaf at Lowestoft, and C. fiavaginella occurs at Kessingland. We have, in all, about twenty-seven species of this family. Elachistidab The thirty species include the curious and very local Stathmopoda pedella, Bachtrachedra pinicolella, the brilliant Cosmopteryx eximia, Laverna lacteella, and the pretty Stephens'ta Brunnichella, all of which are rare and local. LiTHOCOLLETIDAE Most of our fifteen species are common, but LithocolUtis hortella and L. scopariella, both from Brandon, are scarce and rarely met with, and L. itettinensis was first found at Foxhall, among alders, by the writer in 1907. Lyonetidae Of the ten species we need only mention Opoitega saliciella and Bucculatrix Boyerella, both from Southwold. Nepticulidae These tiny moths have been much neglected, only twenty species being recorded ; they include Neptkula basiguttella and N. viscerella, both from Tuddenham, A'^. trimaculella from Brandon, and Bohemannia quadrlmacuhlla from Lowestoft and Fritton. »34