238 [March, 



Capture of Semasia gallicolana. — On tlie lOtli May, 1878, wo had a tremen- 

 dously high wind. Entomologists, as a rule, do not like wind, but this wind produced 

 me two specimens of Semasia gallicolana, an insect I had never taken before. The 

 moths were blown o£P the oak trees and took refuge on some palings, where they 

 were easily boxed. 



I have placed them by the side of my solitary specimen of Stephens' Fseudotomia 

 obscurana, described by him, in 1834, in the 4th volume of his Illustrations, Haus- 

 tellata, p. 98, and at present I am disposed to consider the two species distinct, though 

 it is quite possible that, if I had a longer series of both, my views might be modified. 



Gallicolana is a very bright gay -looking insect, whereas ohscuranais well -named, 

 it is dull and obscure, the pale dorsal blotch being almost entirely suffused. 



I cannot easily imagine any one confounding obscurana with argt/rana, whilst 

 the resemblance between gallicolana and argyrana is very striking. Heinemann 

 particularly notes the similarity of the two species, in his description of OraphoUtha 

 gallicolana (p. 200). Nearly 50 pages earlier, he has a Grapholitha obscurana (p. 

 153), which he takes for Herrich-Schiiffer's obscnrana, fig. 307 (though objecting to 

 the form of the wing in the figure), but he says the basal edge of the dorsal spot is 

 vertical, which would never do for our obscurana. 



Zeller, who descv'ihed. gallicolana in the Isis of 1846, p. 255, lays stress on an 

 elongate dark blotch along thejinterior edge of the underside of the hind wings. I 

 do not perceive this character in my obscurana. 



My specimen of Semasia obscurana was beaten from hedges at Lewisham, June 

 6th, 1848. 



The Semasia obscurana of the Manual II, 241, is gallicolana — in that error I 

 followed Wilkinson's " British Tortrices." — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : 

 February 10th, 1879. 



Occurrence of Tinea fenestratella {Heyden) in Britain. — I have pleasure in 

 adding another species to the list of Biitish Tinem by recording the occurrence at 

 Chattci'is, Cambridgeshire, of Tinea fenestratella (Heyden), a species hitherto, I 

 believe, unobserved in Britain, though it was discovered in Germany, as far back as 

 1843, by Carl von Heyden. To Mr. Stainton I am indebted for kindly determining 

 the species ; he detected it amongst a few Tinea submitted to him for examination 

 last January. The following description of the insect is given in the Entomologists' 

 Annual for 1868, p. 8, in the article, "In Memoriam, Carl von Heyden " (and which 

 description is translated from the Stettin, entomologische Zeitung, 1863, p. 342) : — 



" Al. exp., 4 lin. 



" Anterior wings rather shining, yellowish-grey, mixed with darker scales. In 

 " the middle of the wing is an oval, whitish, almost traus^Dareut spot, and beyond 

 "this, towards the apex of the wing, two opposite spots more indistinct, yellowish, 

 " and elongate. The cilia are dark, with a blackish divisional line. On the grey 

 " underside only the transparent centi-e spot is perceptible. Posterior wings pale grey, 

 " with the apex and cilia darker. Head clothed with reddish-brown hairs, darker on 

 "the crown. Labial palpi with drooping, narrower terminal joint, brown. Antennae 

 " rather shorter than the anterior wings, thin, brown. Thorax and abdomen brownish. 

 "Legs yellowish; the tarsi blackish above. It has the appearance of a small Tinea 

 " imella, Hb., with vei-y narrow anterior wings." 



Carl von Heyden also adds, that the one specimen he then possessed (1813) was 



