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the ground-colour. To this insect Westwood's figure bears no re- 

 semblance in shape, colour, or markings ! Cleogene Peletieraria does 

 resemble it a little in colour, and in the darker nervures and absence 

 of other markings ; but has no resemblance whatever to it in shape, 

 which indeed is, like the other, very much that of D. ohfuscmia ! It 

 can only be supposed that neither Stephens nor Westwood was, at the 

 time when they suggested a name for the species, at all acquainted 

 with either torvaria or teletieraria, and that both relied upon insufii- 

 cient descriptions. Both species (European) are, fortunately, now to 

 be seen in the National Collection by continental specimens. 



It seems hardly sufiicient to prove what Mr. Templeton's specimen 

 was ?2o#, and to leave the matter in that unsatisfactory state; and I am 

 disposed to suggest that the specimen may possibly have been a black 

 variety of Teplirosia hiundulnria — perhaps the earliest indication extant 

 of that melanic movement which has now become so celebrated ! 



Mniophila. cineraria, Hiib. — Of this species Mr. Stainton says 

 in the Manual :—'•'' Once at Tenby, South Wales." In the ^^ Entomo- 

 logisfs Annual,''' 1855, however, he calls it Teplironia corticaria,'W . V., 

 adding, " first enumerated as British in Doubleday's Catalogue, p. 17 ; 

 a specimen is in the collection of the Bi"itish Museum, ticketed by 

 Dr. Leach as having been taken by him at Tenby." 



It is, perhaps, hardly necessary for me to say that during the 

 seven or eight years which I spent in Pembrokeshire, visiting Tenby 

 every few days, one of the things to which I more especially devoted 

 my attention was, if possible, the re-discovery of this species ; and so 

 thoroughly was I satisfied of its absence that I came at last to the 

 conclusion that the insect which Dr. Leach had taken was simply 

 Gnophos ohscurata^ in the smooth grey variety prevalent there. 



Viut this conclusion is totally upset by an inspection of the 

 original specimen, which happily is still in the National Collection, 

 quite safe in the cabinet of the late Mr. J. F. Stephens, and in fair 

 condition. It had been pinned with some kind of large pin, which is 

 now cut off, apparently it was a common English " spit." But, un- 

 happily, the specimen is not cineraria — or sepiaria, as Staudinger calls 

 it — at all. It is Teplironia cremiaria, Ereyer ; of this there is not a 

 shadow of doubt, the second line of its fore-wings, and the central 

 line of the hind, being composed of faint dots, as in the latter species, 

 and not forming actual complete lines as in cineraria. 



Tephronia cremiaria is an extremely local species, confined ap- 

 parently to some of the mountains of France, the Tyrol, and possibly 

 Piedmont, and there is not the smallest probability of its having, or 



