1879.] 179 



Between the descriptions above quoted of stagnnlis and monticoJa 

 a description is introduced of Kilmxinella, which must have been made 

 from some specimens with which I had supplied von Heinemiinn, as 

 "Wocke says "it has not hitherto been detected on the continent." 



He describes this Kilmunella as follows : 



" Anterior wings of uniform breadth from the base, rounded posteriorly, dark 

 " grey, with a faint violet-red gloss. The fascia in the $ narrower and indistinct, 

 " rather -variable, perpendicular and straight or slightly angulated, often broken in the 

 " middle, in the $ the entire basal portion is whitish, only tinged with grey on the 

 " costa and in the fold, and passes without any defined separation into the fascia, 

 " which is posteriorly quite straight and perpendicular. The opposite spots are 

 "rather large, somewhat variable in form, usually triangular, the costal spot points 

 " towards the anal angle, the dorsal spot towards the middle of the costa. Cilia at 

 " the base dusted with dark grey, from the apex to the middle of the hind margin 

 " whitish, below this rather dark grey, the dividing line is far away from the tips of 

 " the cilia. 



" Posterior wings half the breadth of the anterior wings, the cilia more than 

 " three times the length of those of the anterior wings. 



" Head and the rather long palpi in the $ dark grey, in the ? pale grey ; legs 

 " and abdomen dark grey, the latter in the $ with the anal tuft of the same colour, 

 " in the $ with narrow pale margins to the segments ; the hinder tibiae spotted with 

 " whitish before the middle. 



" From Scotland." 



To put the whole matter in few words, thus : 



Kilmunella is grey, and has an entire fascia before the middle, 

 and then an angulated fascia formed of two opposite spots. 



Monticola is brown, and has the first fascia obsolete towards the 

 costa, f oi'ming only a dorsal spot, and the hinder spots look in contrary 

 directions and do not form a fascia. 



Sfar/nalis, which we have not yet distinguished amongst our 

 British species, should be smaller and shorter winged, with the first 

 fascia entire and the opposite spots almost forming a straight second 

 fascia, the apical portion of the cilia whitish. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham : 



October 20th, 1878. 



EeliotMs peltigera at Hereford. — The notice of Heliothis ^ieltigera occurring at 

 Tenbury reminds me that I captured a specimen in my garden here last summer. I 

 believe its occurrence in Herefordshire has not previously been recorded. — T. A. 

 Chapman, Binghill, Hereford : December 3rd, 1878. 



