t marshes.
64. E. CONSORTELLA. Scotland (1854). A doubtful species.
65. E. MEGERLELLA. Widely distributed (1854). Common. Larva feeds in
grass during winter and early spring.
66. E. OBLIQUELLA. Near London (1854). Unique!
67. E. TRISERIATELLA. South of England (1854). Very local; an obscure
species.
68. *TINAGMA BETULAE. East Dorset (1891).
69. LITHOCOLLETIS NIGRESCENTELLA. Northumberland (1850). Rare; a dark
form of _L. Bremiella_, which is widely distributed.
70. *L. ANDERIDAE. Sussex. Dorset (1886).
71. L. IRRADIELLA. North Britain (1854). A northern form of the more
southern and wide-spread _L. lautella_.
72. L. TRIGUTTELLA. Sanderstead, near Croydon (1848). Unique! very
peculiar.
73. L. ULICICOLELLA. In a few wide-spread localities (1854). A peculiar
form.
74. L. CALEDONIELLA. North Britain (1854). A local variety of the more
widespread _L. corylifoliella_. {350}
75. L. DUNNINGIELLA. North of England (1852). A somewhat doubtful
species.
76. BUCCULATRIX DEMARYELLA. Widely distributed (1848). Rather common.
77. TRIFURCULA SQUAMATELLA. South of England (1854). A doubtful
species.
78. NEPTICULA IGNOBILIELLA. Widely scattered (1854). On hawthorn, not
common. ? on continent.
79. N. POTERII. South of England (1858). Bred from Larvae in _Poterium
sanguisorba_.
80. N. QUINQUELLA. South of England (1848). On oak leaves, very local.
? continental.
81. N. APICELLA. Local (1854). Probably confused with allied species on
the continent.
82. N. HEADLEYELLA. Local (1854). A rare species.
83. *N. HODGKINSONI. Lancashire.
84. *N. WOOLHOPIELLA. Herefordshire.
85. *N. SERELLA. Westmoreland and S. England.
86. *N. AUROMARGINELLA. Dorset (1890).
87. *MICROPTERYX SANGII. (1891).
88. *M. SALOPIELLA.
PTEROPHORINA.
89. AGDISTIS BENNETTI. East coast. I. of Wight (1840). Common on
_Statice limonium_.
We have here a list of eighty-nine species, which, according to the best
authorities, are, in the present state of our knowledge, peculiar to
Britain. It is a curious fact that no less than fifty of these have been
described more than twenty-five years; and as during all that time they
have not been recognised on the continent, notwithstanding that good
coloured figures exist of almost all of them, it seems highly probabl
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