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874 (1) PEALONIA SABULICOLA, Wlsm., n. n., 

 ^ Conehylis f erigerana, Wlsm., Eat. Mo. Mag., XXVII, 3—4 (1891). 



BY THE RT. HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. 



The names erigeronana, Riley (1887), given to a species of Con- 

 ehylis feeding in galls on Erigeron canadensis in Texas, and erigerana, 

 Wlsm. (1891), used for a distinct species of the same genus feeding 

 on Erigeron acris in England, cannot both be maintained. It is open 

 to doubt whether either of these names is rightly formed from the 

 Greek original, 'rjptyepcjv (which is maseuline), but as both were 

 intended to convey precisely the same meaning, they would, if cor- 

 rected, necessarily become homonymous. I therefore propose to 

 substitute the name sahuUcola for the species described by myself, 

 thus avoiding any form of repetition. 



I may add that this species feeds on the flowers of Erigeron 

 canadensis as well as on those of E. acris, and that the former is 

 gradually supplanting the latter in this neighbourhood, where its 

 young growth is often so abundant as to strongly affect the colour of 

 the landscape. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 

 August, 1900. 



NOTES ON PSYCHE VILLOSELLA. 

 BY W. C. BOYD. 



Whilst at Bournemouth early in June I was fortunate enough 

 to secure a good number of cases of Psyche viUosella -. and as moat 

 of those who have been successful, to this extent, have afterwards 

 experienced difliculties both as to the male and female insects, I think 

 a few hints may not be unacceptable. 



When I first began collecting at Bournemouth in 1885, Mr. 

 McE-ae informed me that he had bred many P. viUoseJIa, J, and yet 

 had scarcely a decent specimen in his cabinet, because the scales on 

 the wings are so loose that if once the insect begins to fly it is certain 

 to be utterly ruined. He told me he had got up as early as 5 a.m. in 

 the hope of getting satisfactory specimens, but in vain. I therefore 

 resolved that whenever I got any cases I would have the glass-topped 

 boxes examined pretty frequently, and with the aid of my eldest 

 daughter, I soon discovered that the usual time of emergence is from 



