12 [June, 



black spot. Legs testaceous, with black hairs ; thiglis broadly black beneath, 

 sides with brown spots in a line ; tihicB black at base and apex, first and second 

 pairs with a long, black line on the outside ; third, with fine, projecting, black 

 spines ; tarsi, third joint black, but on the third pair, the posterior half only. 

 Abdomen black, with golden pubescence on the under-side, the posterior mai'gin of 

 the segments narrowly whitish. Length, (?, If, ? , 2 lines. 



Several examples taken by Dr. Power, on the shore of Loch 

 Leven in August, 1869 and 1870, and some, in the collection of 

 Mr. T. J. Bold, by Mr. Hardy, in the Tyneside district. 



The species belongs to the saltatoria group, and in the large ex- 

 terior pale marking of the elytra bears some resemblance to S. stellata. 

 Curt., but the form of the insect is longer-oval, and it is distinguished 

 at once by the dulness of its surface, due to the dense pubescence, 

 which peculiarity Dr. Power tells me struck him when he first saw his 

 captures in his sweeping-net. 



{To he continued). 



NOTES ON BRITISH TORT RICES. 



BY C. G. BARRETT. 



{continued from Vol. x., ^. 2-47). 



Garpocapsa Juliana, Curt. — My friend Mr. H. Waring Kidd bred 

 a specimen of this species a few years ago from the "artichoke " galls 

 of the oak (galls of Cynips quercus-gemmce) , but I think that this 

 situation had only been selected by the larva for the purpose of 

 spinning up. There is no evidence to show that the moth is in any 

 sense an inquiline of the galls. 



Carpocapsa nimhana, H.-S. — This is considered by Prof. Zcllcr 

 and Dr. Wocke as a variety of juHana, but Herrich-Schiiffcr and 

 Heinemaun describe it as distinct. It has not been introduced as a 

 distinct species in the Ent. Annual, but is merely noticed (Ent. Ann., 

 1870, p. 131) as Juliana, var. The only specimens obtained in this 

 country (as far as I am aware) were bred by Lord Walsingham from 

 larvae found hibernating in cocoons under moss or leech trunks in 

 Buckinghamshire. Now, as Juliana appears to be confined to oaJcs, 

 and is rather widely distributed in this couiitr}^ there seems to be 

 considerable evidence in favour of the distinctness of the two species ; 

 I therefore append a description of nimhana. 



Alar. Exp. 7 lines. 



Head and palpi grey ; eyes black ; antennEc and thorax dark grey ; fore-wings 

 slate colour to the middle, thence greyish-brown with scattered oclu'eous scales ; dorsal 



