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more mirnerous at Wallasey than at Deal or elsewhere ; but, from the best informa- 

 tion possible to get, I am informed that from the Wallasey hills possibly not 112 

 were bred, and 150 would be the outside number. We are told that one party got 

 a cigar-boxful ; I can only say that at Deal one morning, I, my wife, and Mr. Lachlan 

 Gibb collected forty-five larvte, but as each larva was in a separate box, I cannot say 

 if they would fill a cigar-box, but, at any rate, it required five large hat-boxes to feed 

 them up in. It is on record that Mr. Meek found fifty larvce one morning at 

 Kingsdown, Kent, so tliat possibly there was very little to choose between as to 

 numbers ; Buffice it to say, that I believe I stand as a " record " for breeding the 

 greatest number of galii for 1888-9, viz., 112 imagines. 



That Mr. Grregson may have taken a few larvse at Wallasey in 1889 is quite 

 possible, but it is beyond dispute that in doing so he stands alone ; every one else 

 failed, not only at Wallasey, but at Deal ; I spent a month there in 1889, and could 

 not find one. That is, perhaps, strange, but true ; numbers of larvae must have 

 pupated in 1888, but what became of the moths, or their progeny, if any resulted 

 from them, is a difiicult problem to solve. My opinion is, that our climate is too 

 cold to produce galii sufficiently robust to prove capable of bearing fertile ova, so 

 that they exist one season only, and die out. 



Greenwich : November, 1890. 



[I am not disposed to argue the point — indeed, the point is not mine. I thought 

 the facts and the opinions gathered up in Lancashire worthy of record and of con- 

 sideration, but I do not feel bound to champion them, as they do not arise from my 

 own observations. One point must be conceded : if I in any way suggested that 

 all the Liverpool entomologists named hold precisely the same views, I beg to with- 

 draw the suggestion, it should not have been made ; indeed, no one could expect 

 such identity of opinion. — C. G. B.J 



OELECHIA {ANACAMPSIS) SFABSICILIELLA, n. sp. 



BY C. G. BARRETT, F.E.S. 



Expanse, 5 lines. Head dark grey, antennae blackish above, paler beneath, 

 thorax blackish, abdomen slightly paler. Fore-wings, narrow, with acute apex, 

 brown-black, the usual three spots black, but hardly visible in the ground colour, 

 fascia indicated by two nearly opposite faintly ochreous blotches, that on the dorsal 

 margin being slightly posterior ; beyond these the costal and dorsal margins at the base 

 of the cilia are indented with smaller faint ochreous blotches, two or three on each 

 margin, cilia of mixed dark grey and ochreous, abundantly dusted with lilaek dots. 

 Hind-wings browni.-^h-grey, rather paler at tiie base, cilia pale grey. 



Differs from all other described species, as far as I can ascertain, 

 by the pale blotches at the base of the costal and dorsal cilia, which 

 give that portion of the wing an indented appearance. From the 

 closely allied coronillella and anthyllidella it may also readily be i\\^- 

 tinguished by its narrower fore-wings and their more acute apices. 



This species has been in my collection for some years. I took 



