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These opportunities being denied to Continental entomologists, owing to the 

 fact that the latter form, as indicated by Slaudinger and Rebel (op. cit., p. 103), 

 has onlj been found in Britain, the practically unanimous verdict of experienced 

 British Lepidopterists, both past and present, that pinicolana, Dbld., is not con- 

 speeific with huoUana, Schiff., should surely find acceptance witli them. If any 

 specialist will kindly undertake to compare the genitalia, which may perhaps also 

 present marked differences, I will gladly supply him with plenty of individuals of 

 both these species. — Eustace R. Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle : July 25t/i, 1907. 



P.S. — Since the above was set up in type, Lord Walsingham has kindly in- 

 formed me that besides the species mentioned by Sorhagen, Pinus marithna and 

 pumilio have been chronicled by Ilavtmann [MT. Miinch. Ent. Ver., Ill, 181, No. 

 921 (1879)], and austriaca and excelsa by Barrett [Lp. Br. Is., XI, 33-4 (1907)], 

 as foodplants of E. huoliana. P. maritima being synonymous with P, pinaster, the 

 latter, under its later name, is already in the list of recorded food-plants. — E. R. B. : 

 August IQth, 1907. 



Note on the life-history of Tortricodes chapmani, Wlsm. — The larvae were 

 abundant in the first week in April on the top of Monte Venere (2900 ft.) at Taormina 

 in the flowers of Anemone {stellata ?, apparently the species that is common on 

 the Riviera, with numerous narrow violet sepals). This anemone was only met 

 with at this one station. The larvae were pale and fleshy (no description taken), 

 they bent the sepals over, like several Cnephasias do with Chrysanthemum flowers, 

 and ate all parts of the flower. The pupa has usual Tortrix characters, it has a 

 strong "beak," no face prominence as ^or^r/ceWa has, and differs very materially 

 in its anal armature, having an antero-lateral spine (one on either side), and a 

 terminal (dorsal) flattish process ending in a sharp spine at each lateral angle ; the 

 anterior ones are somewhat hooked, suitable for holding the pupa back, or in actual 

 backward movement. — T. A. Chapman, Betula, Reigate : August 16th, 1907. 



Meessia richardsoni, Wlsm. ; n. syn. =^ Tinea *vincu/ella, Wlsm. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. XXXVI. 17(1 (1900), wee. HS. (Lkp : Ti.v.).— The statement that " vincu- 

 lella, HS., DOES occur in England teste a good Dorsetshire specimen in Bajikcs' 

 Coll." for which I am responsible, under the above reference, was a quotation from 

 my MS. notes made in 1895. The specimen was not before me in 1900 when I de- 

 scribed richardsoni. Mr. Bankes has now again submitted to me the single specimen 

 referred to [Wlsm. Det. 5027 : MS. 322 (1895)], and writes as follows :— " Ever since 

 your paper was published I have been meaning to submit this individual to you in 

 the hope of convincing you that it is really richardsoni, BluA not vi)iculella,and that 

 the latter does not, to our knowledge, occur in Britain. It is the actual specimen 

 upon which your note, at the bottom of p. 176 (Ent. Mo. Mag. XXXVI), retaining 

 vinculella, H.-S., as a British species was founded, and is the only British reputed 

 vinculella in existence. The notes quoted in your paper were made after we had 

 together examined various specimens, and our views then quite coincided. But not 

 long afterwards I reared a long series of T. richardsoni from larvae collected in the 

 identical spot of ground where the individual in question was taken, and, on thus 



