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Euchromia rufana, Scop. — liecorded as British, but not described, 



in the Ent. Ann., 1864, p. 126, having been taken rather freely by Mr. 



Hodgkinsou in Cumberland. I append a short description. 



Alar. exp. 8 lines. 



Head and thorax reddish ; palpi paler ; antenna dark grej ; fore-wings greyish- 

 brown entirely reticulated with dark crimson scales, which give the insect a reddish- 

 brown ajjpearance ; hind-wings pale grey ; cilia whitish, with a grey line near the 

 base. $ darker, tlie fore-wings being reticulated with olive-brown scales ; hind-wings 

 dark grey. 



A variety of an olive-grey colour with reddish cilia seems not 

 uncommon. 



Some time ago, Mr. Hodgkinson obligingly sent me a number of 

 living specimens, which, from the arched costa and greater breadth of 

 their fore-wings, had a very different appearance from inirpurana, 

 which I used to find at Haslemere. 



EucTiromia ericetana, Westw. — Dr. Wocke sinks this name in 

 favour of trifoliana, H.-S., the name by which it appears to be generally 

 known in Germany, but this cannot stand, since Westwood's name is 

 anterior, and is accompanied by a recognizable description. It cannot 

 be admitted even on the ground that there is another ericetana in 

 Wocke's genus Sfeganoptyclia, since that also is a name of later date. 

 Ericetana, Westw., must therefore be retained for this species. 



Eucli7'omia striana, Schiff. 



Euchromia Branderiana, Linn. — M. Jourdheuille in his Calendar 

 says that the larva feeds between leaves of aspen. 



Orthotcsnia antiquana, Hiibn. — Prof. Zeller says the larva feeds in 

 the roots of Stacliys palustris. 



Sericoris conchana, Iliibn. — Dr. Wocke alters this to rivulana, 

 Scop., which is certainly a much earlier name. 



Sericoris lacunana, Dup. — Of this species, beautiful varieties occur 

 in the fens of Norfolk, and they arc noticed by AVilkiiison in a note 

 at the end of the genus (p. 275), where he says that they are dark 

 cinereous or smoky-black. This is correct of some specimens, but 

 others are coaZ-black with the markings indicated by lustrous leaden 

 lines. I have reared these dark varieties along with the typical form 

 from screwed-up leaves of Sjiircea ulmnria. They have been erro- 

 neously placed, as A\^ilkiu8on says, in some collections under the name 

 of herhann. _ 



