g fjuiic, 



111 nifiddiia the biiKl-wiiigs are pale at tlie base, becoiniiig ihirker 

 towards the hind-margin. 



In JVeirana they are entirely dark grey. In this species, also, 

 the fore-wings are broader and more rounded than in nitidana, and it 

 is altogether a larger, duller, and more smoky-looking species. 



M. Ragonot w'rites me : " JVitidann, whether captured about oaks 

 " or bred from the cocoons, is quite constant in colour and size, and is 

 " smaller than Weirana, and narrower winged. JVeirana, bred from 

 " beech, is quite constant in size and colour, though some hare more 

 " distinct markings than others." 



I think, therefore, that their distinctness is fully proved, and in 

 this Prof. Zeller, after seeing M. Ragonot's specimens, concurs. 



The specimens oijlfxana sent me by Zeller, although more brightly 

 marked than even the Parisian sjiecimens, are also clearly identical 

 with Weirann, and it will therefore be necessary to adopt JJcxana, Z., 

 as the name of this species, as it has one year's prioritv' over fVeirann, 

 Dougl. 



The climatal variation of this species is curious and very interesting, 

 and deserves further investigation. 



Prom Loi'd Walsingham I have received, for examination, a 

 beautiful Tortrix belonging to this genus, but apparently distinct from 

 any described species, and so well marked that I venture to describe 

 it as a novelty. 



Stigmonota erectana, sp. n. Alar, cxp., 4^ lines. — Head, palpi, 

 and antennae, dark brown, thorax olive-brown. Fore-wings rich dark 

 brown, paler towards ihe base, and with a faint olive tinge. Markings 

 silvery-white, consisting of a perpendicular dorsal blotch reaching two- 

 thirds across the wing, immaculate, sharply defined interiorly, squared 

 at the apex, and slightly toothed exteriorly, and four pairs of costal 

 streaks, the second pair produced into a narrow angulated fascia 

 beyond the dorsal blotch, and reaching the anal angle, the lower arm 

 being nearly perpendicular to the margin, slightly dilated, and bril- 

 liantly white. Between this and the dorsal blotch is the almost 

 invisible ocellus. There is a square pale spot in the cilia below the 

 apex, the remainder of the cilia being grey with a dark line at the base. 



Hind-wings very pale grey at the base, darker at the margin and 

 on the nervures. Cilia Avhite. 



Of the size and form of internana, and similar in markings, except 

 that the dorsal blotch is ei-ect, and contains no dark lines. 



Taken by the Hon. Beatrice de (xrey among broom (Sparthtm 

 scojxirium) iu Xorfolk. 



(Tu be conliuuedj. 



