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3261. — Depeessaria depressella, Hb., 



3261 -f- h. DEPRESSELLA, Hb. + PRANGOSELLA, Var\ 11. 

 Antenna dull tawny grey, the basal joint whitish ochreous. Palpi, Head and 

 Thorax whitish oclireous. Forewinga pale tawny fawn-grey, with a slight ochreous 

 tinge, sometimes the ochi-eous becomes more pronounced at the expense of the grey 

 suffusion ; in some specimens a few whitish cinereous scales are scattered beyond 

 and below the outer end of the cell ; there is a narrow whitish ochreous line along 

 the linibus at the base ; cilia the same colour as the wings, but the outer half some- 

 what paler than the basal. Exp. al., 14 — 17 mm. Hindtoings pale tawny grey ; 

 cilia pale greyish cinereous, sometimes inclining to ochreous. Abdomen shining pale 

 greyish cinereous. Legs pale cinereous, the outer sides of the hind tarsi spotted 

 with mouse-grey. 



Type, S (87633) ; ? (87630) ; Larva (87637). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: SPAIN— SEviLLA—Coria del Rio, 10.XII.1900. MO- 

 ROCCO- Tangier, 9-26.III.1900; Larva Prnngos ferulacea, 9.Y. 

 excl. 19-25. V.1902. Twenty specimens. 



Larva grey, head and pronotal plate black, the spots on the remaining somites 

 eliining whitish ; Legs black. 



This variety lacks tbe reddish tinge which distinguishes the 

 typical form ; its average size is somewhat smaller, and although it 

 seems worthy of description as a well-marked variety, T cannot regard 

 it as a distinct species. In size and general appearance var. prongo- 

 sella more nearl}^ resembles var. ovmsiella, Stgr., from Kerasdere, it is 

 not improbable that Staudinger's remark " einige sind fast grau " may 

 refer to prangosella, but no specimen in my series agrees in colour 

 with an exponent of nmasielht (Wlsm. Coll., 120) received from 

 Staudinger in 1893. 



It feeds in the seeds of Prangos ferulacea. The only difference 

 I can detect in the larva? is that one is grey while the other is reddish. 



(2To he continued). 



NOTES ON CLOSTERA ANACHORETA. 

 BY MISS A. D. EDWARDS. 



In Mr. C. G. Barrett's interesting paper on Interbreeding Clostera 

 anaclioreta, in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for September, p. 215, the wrong 

 locality was unfortunately given for my original find. It should 

 have been St. Leonard's-on-Sea and not Deal. 



I am now advised to re-publish an account of how T obtained the 

 species, in order to prevent confusion in the future. My former note 

 ou the subject appeared in the " Entomologist " only. 



The original find was a cluster of nineteen ova on sallow at Bulverhythe, St. 

 Leonard's-on-Sea, on August 23rd, 1893 ; tlie sallow in question stood almost alone 



