19 J Ll'el^ruaiy, 



Eupcecilia affiniiana, Dougl. 



Eupoecilia flaviciliana, Dbld. — Apparently unknown — or con- 

 founded with roseana — on the continent. AYocke, following Heine- 

 mann, quotes Wilkinson's and Stainton's descriptions as synonymous 

 with epilinana, Zell., but erroneously, epilinana being a broader 

 winged insect with piukish-oc7«reo2/s fore-wings, and occurring among 

 flax, on the seeds of which the larva feeds. 



Eu2)oecilia roseana, Haw. 



Eupoecilia suhroseana.'H.siW. — Haw orth' 8 description of this species, 

 though short, is pretty satisfactory, but Wilkinson's evidently refers 

 to the richly coloured northern variety of ciliella, Hiibn., as also do his 

 localities, but upon this subject there are some notes in the Eut. Mo. 

 Mag., vol. v, p. 2i4, and I need not therefore go into it again. 



Dr. Wocke overlooks Wilkinson's description, but (incorrectly) 

 sinks suhroseana, Haw., into a variety of roseana, Haw. In the form 

 of its wings it seems to me more nearly allied to rupicola than to the 

 pointed-winged group of which roseana may be considered the type. 



It appears in this country to be confined to the woods of the 

 south, and is far from common. 



Eupcecilia Heydeniana, H.-S. — Eecorded and briefly described by 

 Mr. McLachlan, in Ent. Ann., 18G9, p. 90, and further noticed in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., v, p. 245. 



Dr. Wocke appears to insert this species twice over in his list, 

 since this is certainly Seydeniana, Hein., which he makes synonymous 

 with impUcitana, H.-S. 



According to M. Jourdheuille's Calendar, the larva feeds in 

 flowers of Gnaplialium, Pyreiliruin inodorum, Tanacetnm, Artemisia 

 and Solidayo, and it was about the last named plant that I used to 

 take it at Haslemere. 



I am strongly of opinion that Wood's fig. 1141; — rujiciliana — 

 represents this species, and if so his name would have priority. 



Eupoecilia anthemidana. Curt. ? — Nothing further has been 

 elicited about this species since Mr. McLachlan wrote in 1868, but I 

 think it very doubtful whether the species found in Norfolk, feeding 

 in seed-heads of Erigeron acre, and having a ichite head and palpi, is 

 the same as that bred by Curtis from Anfhemis, which is described as 

 having cream-coloured head and face, inclining to rosy. 



It does not, however, seem advisable to erect tlie Erigeron feeder 

 into a new species Tintil the true antlicmidana (if distinct) be re-dis- 

 covcrcd. 



