with as many generic appellations, and he adds, " the genus 

 is decidedly not synonymous with Thirates of Treitschke, as 

 given by Mr. Curtis, the type of that genus being Pccdisca 

 prof unci ana. ''^ Now the fact is, that Treitschke has since 

 changed his generic name ; but the 1st and 3rd species of my 

 948th Genus are actually his types, and what is still more re- 

 markable, they are admitted into Mr. Stephens's new genus 

 under the names of porphyrana and Wellensiana, the former 

 being synonymous with ^ro/wn^f^wo, the latter wiih scutulana. 

 The following are our British species of Paedisca. 



1. profundana Wien. Verz. — porphyrana Hiib. Tort. tab. 5. 



f'^6. 



" Wings glaucous ash-colour, shining, with 3 oblique 

 fuscous brown bars." Hatv. 

 End of June and beginning of July, Birch and Darent 

 Woods and the New Forest. 



2. nebulana Do7i. 11. 364. 3.— Haw. 461. 215. 



" Wings somewhat ferruginous griseous, with 3 oblique 

 fasciae, obscure and suffused." Haiv. 

 July, Broomfields? Kent, also in Birch and Darent Woods 

 and the New Forest. 



3. scutulana Wieti. Verz. — Wellensiana Hiib. 37. 237. — asse- 



clana Hiib. 4. 19? — ^thiopiana Haw. var. 462. 216. 

 Superior wings griseous-fuscous, sometimes ferruginous, 

 with a basal fascia, darkest at the interior margin, with a 

 large white spot contiguous at the middle ; an oblique 

 suffused fascia at the centre, narrowed at the costa, which 

 is spotted with a longitudinal black stripe across the mid- 

 d^e; a large sublunate brown space towards the apex, 

 which bears a brown spot ; cilia striped. A very variable 

 species; some individuals being ochreous others blackish. 

 End of July to end of August; Birch and Darent Woods: 

 J. C. Also in Surrey, Hants, and Devon. 



4. Hartmanniana Linn. — scriptana Hiib. 17. HO. 



Superior wings whitish or cream-colour, somewhat cloud- 

 ed, with a brown interrupted fascia at the base and a 

 broader one at the middle, with a black longitudinal line 

 across the centre, where the fascia is nearly divided by 

 the white ground ; costa spotted and several oblique grey 

 and brown lines towards the apex; interior margin brown. 

 July, near London and in Devon. 



5. semifasciana JF/atu. 431. 115. — Cwi.Brit.Ejit.pl.57l,(^. 

 From the beginnina; to the end of August in Coomb Wood, 



and at Hume, Hants: J. C. Hedges, Kent and Brockenhurst. 



The Plant is Ribes nigrum (Black Currants), from the 

 banks of the river in the neighbourhood of Thetford, Norfolk. 



