1875.] 87 



plant also. I suspected that iS. aizoides would t>o Ihe plant selected, and my 

 suspicions were verified the other day by finding the larva on this Saxifrage, and also 

 on S. oppos it [folia. The larva oi Larentiaflavicinctata also feeds on these Saxifrages. 

 I first found Zelleria saxifragm in Braemar, and have since seen it in the following 

 districts of Perthslurc, viz. : Athole, Breadalbano, Eannoch, and Lomond. The 

 Inrva is full-fed at the end of Jiuie, and the moth may be found in July and August, 

 resting on, or flying amongst, the flowers of the Saxifrage, or more rarely at rest 

 upon rocks. — Id. : August Ath, 1875. 



Notes on Tortrices of the genus Goehylis. — My friend Mr. Barrett, in the 

 February number (Vol. xi, p. 196) of this Magazine, quoting M. Jourdhcuille, says 

 of Francillana, " larva in dried stems of previous year's Mryngium campest7'e." As 

 Mr. Barrett surmised, this information as regards Francillana is incorrect : the larva 

 which feeds in the stems of Eryngium isjlagellana, Dup. 



Considerable confusion exists in Grermany with regard to this species and its 

 allies, and I would propose the following correction to Dr. Wocke's catalogue : 

 No. 859. Sanottinana, Tr.,viii,116 (1830); Dup.,ix, 259, 2; H.-S., iv, 182 ; Hein., 

 77. Saumanniana, Hiibn., Tor., 148 (nee S. V.). 

 8G0. Feaxcillana, F., E. S., p. 264 ; Don., Nat. Hist., x, t. 351, 1 ; Wood, 



1152 ; Wilk., 312 ; flagellana, H.-S., 345, iv, p. 182. 

 862. Flagellaxa, Dup., ix, 259, 6 ; H.-S., 95, iv, p. 182 ; Heyden, Ste. Z., 

 1862. Francillana, Hein., p. 80 ; eryngiana, Heyd., St. cut. Z., 

 1865, p. 100. 



Sanguinana, Tr., is a very distinct species, which cannot be confounded with its 

 allies, being distinguished by its larger size, greater breadth of wing, particularly 

 wide fasciso, and the presence of numerous metallic specks, especially on the edges of 

 the fascia?. It is recognizably figured by Hiibner (as Baumanniana) and Duponchel, 

 and, according to Treitschke and Von Heyden, the larva feeds in stems of Fryngium 

 (if not confounded with that oi Jlagellana). 



Francillana, Fab., does not ajjpcar to be known on the continent, yet it is well 

 figured by Herrich-Schaffer (fig. 345), but under the name oi Jlagellana. It is 

 indeed very much like Jlagellana, Dup., but it seems to have more elongated and 

 pointed fore-wings ; the two fascia? are generally entire, they are, besides, rather 

 broader than in Jlagellana, and are moreover dilated at, and produced along, the 

 costa and inner margin ; the costa at the base also appears to be more suffused with 

 the dark colour. 



Francillana, it appears, feeds in the seeds of caiTot, and probably retires into 

 the stems of tlio plant to hibernate, for it has also been bred from larvsc in the 

 dried stems. 



The Francillana of Von Heinemann (p. 80) is eQTivLm\y Jlagellana, Dup., and ho 

 quotes, in error, the English authors. Flagellana, Dup., is unquestionably Von 

 Heyden's eryngiana, and Duponchel's figure is very good. Tliis insect is variable 

 in its mai'kings, it is exccedinglj' like Francillana, but the first fascia (and sometimes 

 the second) is generally very distinctly interrupted at or before the costa, but at other 

 times it is hardly so. The fascia; are naiTower, not, or only very slightly, dilated at 

 the costa and inner margin. Herrich-Schiiffer's fig. 95 is not good, being too pale. 



