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comparatively large size and very distinctive mesonotal puncturation 

 rendering it so distinct. 



Since the above was written I have examined the series of speci- 

 mens in the collection of the late F. Smith, and I find therein a single 

 ? example of another species new to our list, A nanula, Nyl. This 

 specimen bears only the month and day of the month of its capture, 

 but by comparison of the label, pin, and mode of setting, I can be 

 practically certain that it was sent to him by Bridgman of Norwich. 

 Probably it was taken actually at Norwich, for some other similarly 

 pinned insects bear the letter " M " (no doubt, Mousehold) or 

 ' Brundall ' written on them. Bridgman, who many years ago wrote 

 to me that he had great doubts of the identity of some of the species 

 that Saunders considered as spring and summer forms of one, sent a 

 number of these {bimacvlata, dorsata, afzeliella, minutula, &c.) to 

 Smith in 1875-77. 



A. nanula, Nyl., is one of the species that bears evident, but very 

 fine and feeble, punctures on the abdominal segments. The mesonotum 

 is distinctly shining between the punctures, and the apical impressions 

 of the 2nd and 3rd segments are sculptured, not shining as in sauuders- 

 ella. It most nearly resembles moricella ? of our British forms, but the 

 shining mesonotum and the very conspicuous red or ferruginous colour 

 of nearly the whole of the flagellum of the antennee beneath, the 

 apical joints being also ferruginous above, separate it at once. The 

 mesonotum in the British specimen is less closely punctured than in 

 two examples received from Herr Alfken, but the latter do not agree 

 together in this respect. The surface of most of the basal abdominal 

 segment is smoother than in the allied species and rather shining. I 

 have not seen a $ . It is a summer species found in July and August. 



Park Hill House, 



Paignton : March, 1914. 



SOME NOTES ON CRAMBUS LITHARGYRELLUS, Hubn., AND 



C. POLIELLUS, Treitschke. 



BY THE HON. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S. 



Stainton (Manual, Vol. II, p. 184) includes Crambus lithargy- 

 rellus, Hubn., among the British species of Crambi. Subsequent 

 authors do not appear to have considered the inclusion of this large 

 Crambus in the British list to be justifiable. In the penultimate 

 portion of the late J. W. Tutt's collection, sold at Stevens' Auction 



