9B THE entomologist's hecord. 



Description of Plate ix. 



Pig. 1. — Larva of Acronycta (Cuspidia) strigosa, 1st skin x 24 dm. 



„ 2. — „ „ Demas corijli, 1st stage x 20 dm. 



„ 3. — ,, ,, Diloha ccerideocephala, 1st stage x 15 dm. 



„ 4. — „ „ „ „ „ (newly hatched) x 25 dm. 



„ 5. — Pupa of Demafi cori/li, nat. size. 



„ 5a. — ,, „ „ „ anal armature, dorsal view x 15 dm. 



„ 5b. — „ „ „ „ „ „ ventral ,, x 



„ 5c. — „ „ „ „ „ „ lateral „ x „ 



„ 6. — Eggs of Briiophila peiia, dorsal view x 34 dm. 



„ 6a. — „ „ ,, „ latei'al „ x 34 dm. 



„ 7. — Larva of „ „ 1st stage, x 30 dm. 



„ 7a.— „ „ „ ,, „ X 30 dm. 



„ 8. — „ „ DasycMra piudibmula, 1st stage x 15 dm. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 



LiTHOCOLLETIS CERASICOLELLA, A SpECIES NEW TO THE BRITISH 



Fauna, at Doncaster. — I have great pleasure in adding the above 

 species to the British List. Last autumn I collected the mines of the 

 larva in the leaves of Prunus aimim, and I have now bred a few of the 

 imagines. One of the latter I have sent to Mr. Barrett, who confirms 

 my opinion that it is undoubtedly Lith. cerasiroleUa, Her.-Schaffer. 

 Appended is a description of the mine, the larva, and the imago. The 

 mine is elongate, and is placed between the lateral veins of the leaf of 

 P. avium, reaching from near the mid-rib towards the margin. The 

 larva is pale yellow, second segment orange-yellow. Head, dark brown 

 or black. Legs, grey. The imago belongs to the pomifoliella group, 

 and is very like spinlcoleUa ; but the following points serve to dis- 

 tinguish it from that species. The first dorsal streak is more gradually 

 curved, and its apex does not point in a line continuous Avith the basal 

 line. The third dorsal streak is very small, and never joined to the 

 third costal streak. The third and fourth costal streaks are united by 

 some white scales above the black sub-aijical spot. — H. H. Corbett. 



Caradrina ambigua and C. superstes (Plate c, figs. 4-5). — 

 Perhaps two of the most puzzling Noctit.e which have been introduced 

 into the British list are, Caradrina mperstes and C. ambigua. There 

 can be no doubt that the genus Caradrina is puzzling at the best of 

 times, and there are many experienced lepidopterists who cannot now 

 with any degree of certainty separate the two common (in the South of 

 England) species C. blanda and C. alsines. Different as the normal 

 specimens of these appear to a trained eye, there are occasional speci- 

 mens about which it is difficult to give an opinion Avith any amount of 

 certainty. The two species amb/giia and superstes seem to liold a similar 

 close brotherhood and relationshij), and strangely enough, the general 

 difference observable, is to a great extent that observable in the more 

 ochreous alsines and the greyer blanda, ambigua being of an ochreous 



