. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. J. ^•Mi975. Figs. 3, 4: Stigmella salicis Stainton. Larval mines, natural size andenlarged. Figs. 5, 6: Stigmella auritella (Skala). Multiple larval mines, naturalsize and enlarged. STIGMELLA AURITELLA: A SPECIES NEW TO BRITAIN 107 vimineticola, but might be Stigmella auritella (Skala, 1932);however, he could not be certain, as the specimens had beendamaged in transit. If S. auritella did indeed occur in Britain, the best localityto search for it seemed to me to be the west of Ireland, wheremines of a nepticulid I had hitherto suppos
. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. J. ^•Mi975. Figs. 3, 4: Stigmella salicis Stainton. Larval mines, natural size andenlarged. Figs. 5, 6: Stigmella auritella (Skala). Multiple larval mines, naturalsize and enlarged. STIGMELLA AURITELLA: A SPECIES NEW TO BRITAIN 107 vimineticola, but might be Stigmella auritella (Skala, 1932);however, he could not be certain, as the specimens had beendamaged in transit. If S. auritella did indeed occur in Britain, the best localityto search for it seemed to me to be the west of Ireland, wheremines of a nepticulid I had hitherto supposed to be S. salicisoccurred plentifully on Salix aurita. Accordingly, in July, 1974,when I was on holiday in Connemara, I collected a numberof these mines at Ballynahinch and bred 25 adults during theensuing month. The imagines resembled those in the Fletchercollection. Compared with specimens of S. salicis bred fromSalix caprea and S. cinerea in England, they are smaller and thewings appear relatively longer and narrower. Whereas in the
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