2 [Jaimury, 



among the stems of Statice sent by Mr. Fletcher, there is no doubt 

 that Aster tripolium occurred where he found them. The larva of 

 cancellana has not been recorded under this name, nor, indeed, has the 

 perfect insect been recognised, so far as I am aware, since Zeller took 

 it in Sicily, in IS4±. 



Hartmann (Mitth. Miinchen. Ent. Ver., 1879, 178) quotes Wocke, 

 to the effect that the larva of affinUana, Dgl., feeds in the stems of 

 Aster tripolium ; and McLachlan (Ent. Ann., 184.59, 89) mentions that 

 he had received specimens from Heinemann bred from the flowers of 

 the same plant. Sicilian collectors should now have no difficulty in 

 re-discovering the species in the locality originally indicated by Zeller. 



The name nffinitana, Dgl., takes precedence, as dating from the 

 year previous to the publication of Zeller's description, thus no altera- 

 tion is needed in our British lists. 



Co^X'^YLIs HEyi)E>"iANA, H.-S., and implicitana, Wk. 



McLachlan, following Wocke, who corrected Herrich-Schiiffer in 

 a letter published by that author (Schm. Eur., vi, 157-S), pointed out 

 (Ent. Ann., 1869, 90), that the description of Heydeniana, H.-S., 

 differs from his figure (pi. lii, 3(39), to which it was intended to apply, 

 and rightly concludes that two separate species are indicated. I have 

 in the Zeller collection specimens labelled, " heydeniana (? H.-S., 

 fig. 369), Hm. 83," in Zeller's writing, showing that he also had a doubt 

 whether the figure applied to this species. 



McLachlan (Ent. Ann., 1869, 90) refers to letters from Heine- 

 mann, giving 07iaphali^im and Pyrethrum inodorum as the food-plants 

 of Heydeniana, but Heinemann himself [Schm. Deutsch., i (1), 83 

 (1863)], in referring to this species, mentions only the flowers of 

 Anthemis cotula, from which one may infer that he was doubtful as to 

 the identity of the species feeding on allied plants. This may, per- 

 haps, account for his suggestion, " ? = sitbroseana, Wilk." 



AVocke only knew impJicitana, Z. (IMS.), from South European 

 specimens, and he described this in his letter to Herrich-Schaffer, the 

 publication of which has caused this species to be wrongly designated 

 as ''impJicitana, H.-S.," whereas it should be i)nplicitana,Wk. Writing 

 obviously after the publication of Herrich-Schaffer's fourth volume, 

 in 1849, he was under the impression that no specimens of this species 

 existed, except in his own collection ; but I find a specimen in the 

 Zeller collection, received from Mann, in that year, and this is pro- 

 bably the South European species referred to by Wocke, although no 

 locality is mentioned on the label. The si)ecimen is not in good 



