106 LMay, 



l)erly, ought, to afford scope for extension of the list of British 

 species. In Mr. Verrall's last list only two are given as British, 

 but this species now recorded brings the list to six. In casr there 

 may be any one in possession of one or more of these insects, but 

 unable to recognise them, I give the following table, which may 

 prove of assistance if used with discretion. 



TABLE OF AMAUROSOMA SPECIES. 



1 (4) Legs willi oiilj the tarsi darkened, and a dark stripe on the fore femora. 



2 (3) Dorsuii) only slightly dusted, with two shining stripes, pleura; shining 



black brevifrons, Ztt. 



3 (2) Dorsum entirely grey dusted .JIavlpes, ¥ln. 



4 (1) Legs with at least the femora black. 



5 (8) All femora, or at least the hind femora, orange at bases. 



6 (7) Fore femora with about twenty closely packed bristles on their under- 



sides .fascmfa, Mg. 



7 (6) Fore femora without bristles inermis, Beck. 



8 (5) Bases of all femora black. 



9 (10) Femora broadlj' orange at their tips, bristles on under-side of fore femora 



not very numerous annillata, Ztt. 



10 (9) Femora only orange at their extreme tips, fore femora with a more 

 numerous cluni)) of bristles on under-sides tibiella, Ztt. 



1 have seen specimens of all tlie above species, but in the case of 

 flnvipes, Oxford is the only locality 1 have seen it from. Mr. Hamm 

 sent, among a few s|iecimens picked up I bdieve haphazard, two 

 specimens of this insect taken on May 16th, 1908, near Cowley, 

 Oxford. I have submitted the species to Mr. Collin, and he agrees 

 with my identification. Mr. Hamm iuf'jrms me that he has submitted 

 the s]K'cimens of Milto(jramma tjermarl to Mr. Wainwright, who has 

 kindly confirmed my identification. 



BonhiU : April, 1909. 



SOME NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE " DALE COLLECTION " 



OF BRITISH INSECTS, NOW IN THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY 



MUSEUM. 



BY JAMES J. WALKEE, M.A., R.N., E.L.S. 



(Continued from Vol. xliii, p. 15S) 



BOMBYCINA. 



LHhosia quadra, h. — One exceedingly dark J, with the central area of the 

 foj-e-wings broadly deep smoky-grey. " From J. Gr. Ross coll. 1879 " (C.W.D). 



Eulepia fframmica, Jj. — Two <J and two $ specimens of this exceedingly rare 

 (or doubtful) British species. A ^ in fairly good order, on a very old-fashioned pin, 

 is labelled " E. Donovan, Manachty, Anglesea, 180u " (C.W.D.) . ( Cf. Stephens, 111. 



