4 [January, 



the tarsus are, on the first leg, approximately as 4'1"1"2, and on the 

 third as 3'1'1'2, whilst in hetuUna on all the legs the proportions are 

 as 2"1'1'2 ; secondly, the specimen has a sharp depression running 

 exactly down the dorsal line, this has occurred in drying, and has been 

 rendered possible by the dorsal plates in sepium, ? , having a weak 

 dorsal line, or being actually divided dorsally into two lateral plates. 



Betula, Eeigate : 



November 17th, 1S99. 



EEVISION OF THE NOMENCLATURE OF MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, MA., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



AND 



JOHN HARTLEV DURRANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Ent. de France. 

 {Continued from Vol. XXXV, p. 200). 



COLEOPHORA, Hb. 



COLEOPHOEA SPISSICORNIS, Hw. 

 = § FABBICIELLA, de Vill. 



Phalcena Tinea fabriciella, de Vill., L. Ent. Fn. Suec, II, 527, No. 

 1077 (1789). Porrectaria spissicornis, Hw., Lp. Br., 537, No. 23 

 (1828). Coleophora fabriciella, Stgr. and Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur., 314, 

 No. 2415 (1871), &c., &c. 



Haworth's name spissicornis must be revived for this species, that 

 of de Villers' is invalid, being homonymous with Phalcena Tinea fabri- 

 ciella, Swederus, Kngl. Svensk. Vet. Ak. nya Hndl., VIII, 277, No. 

 28 (1787), an Indian Hyponomeutid, belonging to the genus Atteva, 

 Wkr., of which Corinea niviguttella, Wkr., is a synonym. 



OCCURRENCE OF ZELLEEIA PEILLYRELLA, Milliebe, IN IRELAND. 

 BT C. a. BARRETT, F.E.S. 



Among some insects taken by the Eev. C. T. Cruttwell, of Kib- 

 worth, Leicester, during his holiday last summer at Eenvyle, near 

 Letterfraek,Galway, I found a specimen of Zelleria ph ill j^r ell a, MiWieve. 

 Upon seeing this I wrote to Mr. Cruttwell for particulars of its 

 capture, also asking whether by any possibility the species might have 

 been taken abroad, and accidentally mixed with the Irish captures ? 

 He writes — "I spent over four weeks in Connemara, at Kenvyle, a 

 lovely part of the world, full of interesting plants and with considerable 

 variety of surface, but without trees except those in gardens. The 

 weather was fine and warm nearly all the time, and I worked more or 



