140 THE entomologist's RECORb. 



may have been noted in the magazines ah*eady. If so, I must apolo- 

 gise for the repetition, owing to my ignorance. As against these 

 second broods I noticed none of Drepana cultraria, Selenia lunaria or 

 S. tc'tmlunaria, which are said to be double-brooded. Of D. cultraria 

 and <S. lunaria there were unusually numerous first broods. I have 

 never myself come across the second of either, (The same remark, 

 however, applies to D. falcataria and D. bi)iaria until last year.) 

 Of S. U'tralunaria there was a very numerous second brood in 1894, 

 but I have not come across any second brood of it since. I got a 

 few first brood specimens in March, 1896. 



Contributions to the fauna of the Dauphine Alps. 



VI. — Description of a Gelechiad new to science. 

 By the Rt. Hon. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., L.L.D., F.R.S., etc. 



TINEINA. — Gelechiad^. — Megacraspedus, Z. — Megacraspedus 

 tutti, Wlsm. sp. n. — Antennai' minutely biserrate ; mouse-grey. 

 Palpi : apical joint erect, slender, naked ; second joint thickly clothed 

 with a long projecting tuft, reaching more than the length of the 

 apical joint beyond its base ; pale cinereous, shaded with mouse-grey 

 externally. Head whitish cinereous. Thorax mouse-grey, some- 

 what paler in front. Fore-irinr/s elongate, narrowly lanceolate ; 

 mouse-grey, with very faint indications of paler lines following the 

 neuration — these are scarcely distinguishable except along the upper 

 margin of the cell ; costa narrowly whitish from the base to the 

 middle of the costal cilia; cilia brownish cinereous. K.vp. al. 18 mm. 

 Ilind-winiis pale-grey; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen dark 

 brownish-grey. Z^tv/.s pale cinereous ; hind tibiae hairy. 



Tiipe, S Mus. Wlsm. 



tiab., France - Dauphine— La Grave, 5,000 ft. VIII. 1896. 

 (J. W. Tutt — two specimens). 



With the exception of exnletellus, Ersch., from Turkestan, I am 

 fortunate in possessing specimens of all the described species of this 

 genus, and I have no hesitation in recognising this species as quite 

 distinct from any of them. It is decidedly darker in colour than 

 dolnsellus, Z., to which it appears to be nearly allied, although the 

 wings are somewhat longer in proportion to their breadth, and the 

 pale lines which forcibly remind one of the genus Culeophora, Hb., 

 are in this species almost obsolete, whereas in good specimens of 

 doloaellm they are plainly visible. In shape it agrees more nearly 

 with mbdoUihis, Stgr., from Andalusia, which is, however, much 

 paler ; and, indeed, none of the known species of the genus possess 

 the dull mouse-grey colouring, which resembles more nearly that of 

 Paltodora striatella (Schiff.), Hb., but with perhaps an even fainter 

 admixture of brown. 

 VII. — The moths of Bourg d'Oisans. — Is Emydia Candida co-specific 



with E. CRIBRUM ? LlTHOSIA LUTARELLA AND ITS VAR. PYGM,E0LA 



— Dianthcecia capsophila IN Dauphin^ — Dark aberrations of 

 Bryophila perla. 



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



The moths of Bourg d'Oisans were particularly interesting from 



the British point of view, so many species that are extremely localised 



in Britain being here found, as it were, also in a very restricted area. 



There was nothing startling, although one felt that a fortnight or 



