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Zyct.enides. — Zi/f/acna carnlolica. — Abundant, the creamy markings 

 better developed than in the Bourg d'Oisans examples. 



ToRTRiciDES. — Tortri.r ribcana. — Only one Tortricid appears in the 

 day's take. This is a specimen of this species. 



Hepialides. — Hcpialus si/lriinis. — A large $ specimen of this 

 species was found in the net, probably swept up from the grass. 



A new British Flea (Typhlopsylla pentacanthus). 



By the HON. CHARLES EOTHSCHILD. F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Ti/jihlojist/lla pentacantlim, sp. nov. — ^Front of the head slightly 

 angulated, bearing five genal spines, of which the first two and the 

 fourth are of equal length, the fifth is half the length of these, and the 

 third is the longest. Pronotum Avith fourteen spines. The posterior 

 edges of the first and second abdominal segments bear four spines, and 

 those of the next three two apiece. The seventh abdominal segment 

 bears at the apex, on the dorsal side, four long bristles. The hinder 

 edges of all the tibife are marked with six incisions, bearing six pairs 

 of strong bristles, gradually increasing in length from the base to the 

 apex of the tibia. 



Parasitic on Muatela nih/aris, Arvicola (u/n'stis, and Mils .si/lraticHs. 



The above description is taken from ?i female specimen, caught on 

 a weasel [Mustela ndi/aris), at Tring, in 1894. We have, however, 

 examined several other examples of this interesting insect, both in our 

 own and in Mr. Edward Saunders' collection, and hope to publish 

 notes on the wale soon. 



A critical resume of the arguments for and against Tephrosia 



bistortata (crepuscularia) and Tephrosia crepuscularia (biundularia) 



being considered distinct species. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



{Cojicluded from p. 32). 



I have previously suggested that the records of the capture of 

 specimens of a second brood of Tephrosia biwididaria at large {K.M.M., 

 xxiii., p. 86, and Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Sac, 1890, p. 25), by Mr. C. 

 G. Barrett, are probably erroneous, and that all the specimens 

 referred to belong to T. creiniscidaria. This opinion has been con- 

 siderably strengthened by the examination of the specimens exhibited 

 by Mr. Barrett for Mrs. Bazett, on Sept. 10th, as individuals of the 

 second brood of T. hinndnlarla. They are (to me) palpably specimens of 

 the second brood of T. crepuscidaria, exactly similar to many bred 

 specimens in my own series, and it appears to me, therefore, very 

 probable that the previous captures of Mr. Barrett were the same. 

 To my knowledge there are but three records, in two ca.ses of single 

 individuals only, of a second brood of T. biundularia. These are : — 

 (1) Mr. Cooper reports breeding T. hinndularia in August, 1890, from 

 an egg laid by a female captured the previous June, the larva having 

 fed upon knot-grass {Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Soe., 188(3, p. 56j. 

 (2). Mr. Bayne, on Nov. 3rd, 1894, captured a specimen of the second 

 brood of T. biundularia, in Epping Forest, near Chingford. It was 



