2(j [February, 



and in the Eev. C R. Digby's collection I detected, last month, a single 

 specimen which he captured near Farnham, in West Surrey, on May 

 31st, 1895 ; it is, therefore, rather widely distributed, and will before 

 long doubtless be met with elsewhere, but it seems strange that I have 

 seen no other individuals in British collections. 



The matter has been carefully worked out with the help of the 

 Stainton, Zeller, and Frey collections, but my difficulties have been 

 increased by the fact that in the two first-named the sets of some of 

 these allied Argyrestliice contain an unpalatable mixture of two or 

 more distinct species, showing that much confusion exists about them 

 on the continent, and rendering great caution necessary in order to 

 avoid being led into error. In the Zeller series of illuminatella are 

 three examples of Atmoriella bearing labels which, when explained 

 by a reference to Zeller's correspondence, show that they were taken 

 in June and July, 1880, at Schonberg, in the Ober Lausitz district, in 

 the north-west of Prussian Silesia, and w^ere received in February, 

 1881, from Herr Otto Torge ; when sending them as '''illuminatella,''' 

 Torge made the following noticeable remark, "Arg. illuminatella flies 

 amongst Pinus larix as well as Pinus ficea^ Atmoriella should follow 

 IcBvigateUa (which is also attached to, and has been bred from, larch) 

 in the European, and might precede arceuthina in the British, List. 



The Eectory, Corfe Castle : 

 January, 1896. 



SOME REMARKS ON THE INSECTS BELONGING TO 

 THE GENUS PALORUS, Muls., WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ONE 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Several years ago I noticed that two species were confused in 

 British collections under the name of Palorus {Hypophloeus) depressus, 

 Fabr., and that probably neither of them really belonged to it ; but as 

 I could not determine them at the time, they were left for future 

 study. The recent publication of Dr. Seidlitz's elaborate work on the 

 TenehrionidcB of Germany, &c. [Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., v (1893 — 5)], 

 has again brought the subject to my mind, and I am now able to 

 juontify our iusects, and to make several corrections in the synonymy. 

 Dr. Svr,ij|it2; recognizes three European species, two of which, P. 

 depressu^g^ Fabr., and P. Ratzeburgi, Wissm., are known from Germany 

 and otjjgj. parts of Europe, and one, P. bifoveolatus, Baudi {iiec 



