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dead specimens. Among the beetles taken by me in the mill at various times, 

 I may mention Oligota granaria* sifted out in numbers from old meal, etc., 

 accumulated in the corners ; Heterothops praevia* and Quedius mesomelinus, 

 occasional ; Homaliurn concinnum* abundant, often quite black ; Mycetaea hirta, 

 common ; Gnathonms nannetensis and Dendrophilus punctatus, occasional ; 

 Aglenus brunneus* and Atomaria munda* freqvient ; Cryptophagus saginatus, 

 distinguendus, cellaris, ujinis, hicolor, and acutangulus, all common except the 

 last ; Mycetophag^is quadriguttatus, in considerable niuubers ; Ptiniis fur, fine 

 specimens of both sexes, and P. pusillus Boield.,* nearly all ?'s; and Niptus 

 crenatus* frequent. I have also taken two or three of a small bright-looking 

 Hypocyptus which appears to be referable to H. apicalis Bris.* — James J. Walker, 

 Oxford: Dec. nth, 1915. 



Depressaria hepatariella Zell., a species neic to Britain. — Amongst some 

 specimens recently sent me by Mr. C. G. Clutterbuck for determination was a 

 fine example of Bepressaria hepatariella, taken in Scotland by the Eev. J. W. 

 Metcalfe. Since it was accompanied by a suggestion that it might be "the 

 Scotch form of ciliella," of which it has the size and general form, I give a 

 description of the specimen (which is somewhat «.larker in general colouring 

 than my Continental examples), as the species may be found in other collec- 

 tions. Exp. 25 mm. Antennae of g moderately ciliated (1). Terminal joint of 

 palpi about half second, whitish in-egiilarly sprinkled with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings reddish-fiiscous suttusedly strigulatad with dark gi-ey, costa suffusedly 

 spotted with dark grey, base of wing narrowly irrorated with whitish ; discal 

 stigmata miniite, blackish, second with a minute whitish dot adjacent, space 

 between second and costa forming a faint blotch of darker suffusion. Hind- 

 wings grey. 



Its nearest Bi-itish ally is cnicella, but it is easily recognised from all 

 similar species bj' the relatively short terminal joint of the palpi, without 

 distinct dark bands, and the well-developed antennal cQiation of the ^ , the 

 latter character being altogether exceptional in the genus, in fact directly 

 opposed to its normal group-structure. The species appears to be of rather 

 wide biit local distribution, occiu-ring from the summits of the Carinthian Alps 

 to Lapland, so that its occurrence in Scotland is reasonable ; Snellen records it 

 from Holland, but I should suspect an error. I am not aware that the food- 

 plant is known, bttt it would almost certainly be a Composite or an U mbeUifer. 

 — Edward Metrick, Thornhanger, Marlborough .- December 9th, 1915. 



Occurrence of a New Zealand Tineid in Britain. — In the same box with the 

 above was a specimen of Dryadaula pactolia Meyr., a New Zealand species 

 belonging to the Erechthias group of the Lyonetiadae. It is a small insect of 

 8-10 mm. expanse, with much the structure of a true Tinea, but apex of fore- 

 wings upturned in repose, dark fuscoiis with somewhat tessellated whitish 

 markings, and a yellowish head. The larva is luiknown, but species of allied 

 genera usually feed on dead vegetable fibre, svich as bark or stems or refuse, 

 and some species have certainly been artificially disti-ilnited, and maintain 



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