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Nearest to mespilella., Hb., in its briglit colour, wbicli, bowever, 

 is ratber less red and more golden, but separated from it by its much 

 larger size. Its mucb brigbter colour in botb sexes, and tbe presence 

 of a wbite line or spot on the dorsum between tbe base and tbe first 

 white tooth, distinguish it from pyrivorella, sp. n., and its colour and 

 the absence of any tendency to the union of the basal white streak 

 with the first dorsal white tooth, separate it from concomitella, Buks. 



Since this, the brighter of the two common apple-feeding species, 

 may well be the Tinea hinncardella of Fabricius, it seems advisable to 

 adopt his specific name for it. Seing that his description was made 

 from English specimens in Teats' collection, it is clear that tbe species 

 before him was one that is now well known to us, and the description 

 entirely agrees, in so far as it goes, with the insect under notice. 

 Werneburg, in Beitr. z. Schmet.,i, 485, 587, Note 431 (1864), suggests 

 that hinncardella, Fb., is probably identical with sorbifolielln, H.-S. 

 (= sorbi, Frey), but this seems to me quite unlikely, for English ex- 

 amples of sorhi, except from the south, are not " golden," and I doubt 

 the occurrence, in Fabrieius' day, of this species in the south, where 

 I should imagine that its food-plants, Pyrus aucuparia and Prunus 

 2)adus, were then almost, or altogether, unknown. 



Haworth's original specimen, which I found in the Allis collection 

 in the York Museum, bearing his own MS. label " mcspilcUaJ' and 

 from which his description in the " Lepidoptera Britannica" was 

 taken, proves that his Tinea mespilella is identical with the species here 

 introduced as hlancardella. Unquestionably identical with it also is the 

 Lithocolletis, bred from mines found on a single tree of Pyrus aria at' 

 Windermere, to which the late Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson gave the MS. 

 name ''■ pyriariella'''' (sic.): his representative specimen alluded to 

 in the Ent. Record, s, 165 (1898), is now in the Merton collection, 

 and happens to be an interesting aberration in which the third white 

 costal tooth on both fore-wings is obsolete, but is perfectly normal in 

 every other respect. Lord Walsingham tells me that a specimen in 

 Zeller's series of sorhi has the same peculiarity, and is obviously the 

 same species as Hodgkinson's. 



5. — Lithocolletis oxtacanth^, Frey. 

 Lithocolletis oxyacantJice, Frey, Tin. u. Pter. Schweiz, 336, No. 10 

 (1856) ; MT. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., i, 350, No. 34 (1865) ; Lep. Schweiz, 

 413 (1880) ; Hein., Schmet. Deutsch., Tm., 668, No. 1054 (1876) ; 

 Snell., Vlind. Ned. Microlep., 920, No. 17 (1882) ; Shgn., Kleinschmet. 

 M. Brand., 275, No. 519 (1886). 



