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record from the East of France, Gerinany, Scandinavia (Thomsoyi), 

 Austria, and eastwards to Siberia. 



I should like gratefully to acknowledge the assistance I have 

 received from Canon Fowler, Mi-. Champion, and Dr. Joy, in the 

 identification of this important acquisition to the British list, the first 

 species of Pterostichus to be added since Stephens' days. 



Lakefoot, Eeading : 



June 8th, 1916. 



STIGMELLA SPECIOSA Fret, AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH 



LIST (LEP-TIN.). 



BY THK RIGHT HON. LOUD WALSINGHAM, M.A.. LL.D., F.R.S., rtc. 



STIGMELLA Schrank. 



Stigmella Schrank (1802), Oken (1815); = Nepticula Hdn. 

 (1843), Z. (1848). 



Stigmella speciosa Frey. 



Nepticula speciosa Frey Ent. Wk. Int. i. 27 (1858)^ ; de Fre Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg. i. 115 (1860)'^ ; Stn. NH. Tin. 7. 150-1 sp. 72, 152-3 

 (1862)^ ; Hnnin. Wein. Ent. Mts. 6. 242. 249, 265-6 sp. 13 (1862)^ ; 

 Ent. Ann. 1863. 43. (1862) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 337 sp. 3015 

 (1871)'^ ; Wk. Zts. Ent. Bresl. (n.s.) i. 99 sp. 28 (1874)6 ; Hnmu-Wk. 

 Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 743 sp. 1204, Tbl. 92 (1876)' ; Hartm. MT. 

 Miinch. Ent. Ver. i. 61 sp. 3015 (1880)^ ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2. 

 224 sp. 4347 (1901)" ; Crmbg. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. 14. 113 sp. 4347 

 (1906)1" ; Meess, Hfm. Schm. Eur. (ed. 3, Splr.) 2. 473, 477 sp. 60 

 (1911)11. 



Ty2)e : (Frey Coll.) BM. 



Hab.: Switzerland!' -^--'^ '- <'- ii : Ziirichi' 4- ' — Gtekmany '*-^> 'i : Sil- 

 esia''", Hochwald and Sattel (nr. Salzbrunn)^'' ; Bruns^vick, Bruns- 

 wick'*. "; (? Wolfenbiittel ■* ) — Belgium'^' -'ii: Louvain-- 1'^-" — England: 

 Hants, Emery Down (nr. Lyndhurst). Larva: mining leaves of Acer 

 pseudoplatamis,^' ^-n^ yHI (Whm.), IXL 4, 7-s, lo-ii^ x^. e-s, lo-n, excl.l7. 

 ly a Y4, s, le-n. 



Antennae pale, shining, yellowish ; eye-cnff. white. Head black (but known 

 to vary to rust-red). Thorax .and collar steel-grey, slightly cupreous. Fore- 

 wings shining, bronzy cupreous, with a brilliant pale brassy i'ascia at two-thirds 



