1907.] 181 



Hah.: ALGERTA-ITaminam-es-Salaliiii, 17.V.1003. A single 

 specimen taken at light. 



Tliia species differs from teucrii, Wlsm., iti llu' iniich more con- 

 spicuous and richly golden sealing, which is also considerably raised, 

 and in the more anniilated legs and palpi. It may be well to observe 

 also that Teucrinm fruticnns does not occur anywhere near Biskra, 

 and T have searched vainly for galls on ihe smaller species of Teucrium 

 which is found there. There is at present no clue to its life-history. 



Mertoii Hall. ThetCord : 

 July, 1907. 



EPIBLEMA COSTIPUNCTANA, Haw., AN ABERRATION OF 

 E. TRIGEMINANA, Steph. 



BY KUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A,, F.E.S. 



In Ent. Mo. Mag., x. 37-8 (1S73), the late Mr. C. G. Barrett 

 expressed the belief that Tortrix costipunctana, Haw. [Lep. Brit., 

 443 (1812)], was distinct from all our other recognised species. This 

 opinion was founded upon a specimen standing as costipunctana \i\ 

 the Doubleday collection, agreeing " most accurately with Haworth's 

 description," which Barrett translated. 



Sorely puzzled for long about Haworth's insect, I succeeded in 

 solving the mystery eleven years ago, when 1 found in tiie J. F. 

 Stephens collection in the British Museum a moth, on the pin of 

 which was a reversed label bearing ''costipunctana"' in Haworth's 

 own writing. This proved the individual to be Haworth's original 

 type specimen, and it was forthwith indicated as such. The moth, 

 which is a male, somewhat broken, was standing by itself in the space 

 allotted to the name costipunctana, and in succession to trigeminana, 

 and is, in my opinion, undoubtedly an aberrant form of trigeminana. 

 It follows, therefore, that the name costipunctana, Hw., must be 

 substituted for that of trigeminana, Steph., and the synonymy, as 

 worked out by Mr. J. Hartley Duirant and myself, is as fcdlows : — 



EpIBLEMA COSTIPUNCTANA, HaW. 



Tortrix costipunctana. Haw., Lep. Brit., 443, No. 150 (1S12) ; Gra- 

 phoUtha pierretana, Dup., Noct. vi, p. 5GG, pi. 2G(j, fig. 3 (1834) ; 

 Spilonoia trigeminana, Ste])h., Cat. ii, 174, No. GOGS (IS29) ; [? Spilo- 

 nota costipunctana, Stph., Cat. ii, 174, No. 6910 (1829)] ; Poedisca 

 brunnichiana, Dup., ix, 253, 9, p. 35S (1834) ; Spilonota trigeminana, 



