,.,, [Marcli, 



be found to differ ; the habits of both in the Larval stage are unknown, 

 and indeed serinipennella was described from a unique specimen, the 

 figure of which greatly resembles squalorella. 



The new species here noticed was bred by M. de Stefani in July 

 and August from galls found near the coast at Trapani, and at Santa 

 Ninfa inland, in Sicily, and it belongs evidently to the same group as 

 the three species of Coleoplwra last mentioned, which, together with 

 binotapennella, Dp., are distinguished by the possession of discal spots. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 

 February, 1900. 



A NEW SPECIES OE TORTRIX EEPORTED FROM SHETLAND. 



BY JOHN HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Ent. dk France. 



We have lately received from Prof. Kennel, of Dorpat, a sepa- 

 rately paged copy of a paper, entitled, " Neue Tortrieiden aus den 

 Sammlungen der Herren Dr. 0. Staudinger uud Th. Seebold." This 

 paper was published in the Entomol. Zeitschrift " Iris " Dresden, XII 

 (1899), and consists of 43 pp. and one plate. Forty species of Tor- 

 tricidcs are described and figured ; amongst them a strongly marked 

 form from the Shetlands, which Staudinger has been sending out as 

 Tortrix (Lozofcsnia) musculinana. Prof. Kennel considers this a 

 variety of Tortrix musculana, Hb., but it seems to be a constant form 

 in the Shetlands, and to be at least worthy of a varietal name. Prof. 

 Kennel described musculinana from a single specimen ; a series of 

 fourteen shows little variation. 



Tortrix (Lozot^nia) musculinana (Stgr. JSTom. Cat.), Kennel, 

 Ent. Zts. Iris, XII, 5, PL I, 2, S (1S99). 



The specimen before me under this name I consider to be only a bright, sharply 

 marked variety of Tortrix musculana, fib., with the <? of which it agrees in size, 

 wing-shape and pattern, as also in the colouring of the hind-wings and body. The 

 grovnid colour of the fore-wings is unusually bright, white-grey, here and there with 

 a yellowish tinge, almost as in bright specimens of Tortrix histrionana, Eroel. 

 Through it goes the broken bounding line of the basal area, the oblique fascia, quite 

 narrow at the costa, then suddenly strongly widened towards the dorsum and a 

 larger, parallel-margined costal spot before the apes sharply indicated in reddish- 

 brown'. The latter, margined by two black lines, reaches to vein 4, thence its outer 

 marginal line proceeds to the dorsum, its inner to the central fascia. This is black- 

 brown on the costa and on its basal margin, and at its expansion some more similar 

 lines run through ; in addition the wavy lines of the type-form are more distinctly 

 indicated on the light ground-colour. [Translated by J. H. D.]. 

 Hah. : Shetland. AVithout date. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 

 Jamiary, 1900. 



