THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. XIV. 



[VOLUME XXXIX.] 



NEPEOPTERYX SIMILE L LA, Zinck., A NEW BRITISH PHYCID. 

 BY C. G. BAnEETT, F.E.S. 



In May last our old friend and colleague, Dr. Knaggs, sent up 

 for exaininatiou a specimei), mutilated yet unmistakeable, of Nepho- 

 pteryx similella, Zinck. It had been captured among oak in the New 

 Forest, in the latter part of .Tune, 1901, by Mr. Bernard Piffard. 

 In the past summer Mr. Piffard endeavoured to confirm the existeuce 

 of the species in the New Porest, and informs me that he saw a 

 specimen, but failed to secure it. 



Now, however, Mr. C. W. Dale has forwarded an individual 

 taken in the same locality by Mr. C. Gulliver, and the species appears 

 certainly to have become domiciled here. 



It is of about the size of N. gcnlstella, but utterly different in 

 appearance ; its general colour slate-black and very shining ; before 

 the middle of the fore-wings is a yellow-white, transverse, straight 

 stripe, broadest on the dorsal margin, but hardly reaching the costa ; 

 the only other perceptible marking is a faint, waved and rippled, 

 whitish " second line ;" hind-wings glistening smoky-grey. I'ood, oak. 



In Staudinger's Catalog (1871) this species was recorded only 

 from Grermany and Livonia ; in that published last year it is said also 

 to be found in France, Holland, Austria-Hungary, and Central Italy ; 

 there is, therefore, good reason to believe that it is now a migrating 

 and extending species, and that it has but recently reached our shores. 



Tremont, Peckham Rye, S.E. : 

 December Uh, 1902. 



JANOABy, 1903. 



