1886.] 15 



tho second segment is similar to that shown in the figure of the larva of Lienigiella, 

 only not quite so dark. The anal segment bears a yellow-brown plate, but in many 

 of the larvEB which I examined this segment only bore the same colour as the rest of 

 the body, nor could I perceive any distinction when examining it with a lens. I bred 

 my first specimen in an unwarmed room, on the 5th of April, and they still continue 

 to come out daily. 



As I am anxious to obtain correspondents among the more eager Micro- 

 Lepidopterists in your country, I may mention, that I have surplus specimens 

 of Cosmopteryx Scriba'iella, Ornix petiolella, Laverna vanella, Stagmatophora 

 Seydeniella and albiapiceUa, Lithocolletis Staintoniella, and sundry others of that 

 genus, Elachista pomerana, Agdistis tamaricis, and many others. On the other hand 

 I should be very thankful for specimens of Agdistis Bennetii, Oxyptilus teucrii, 

 Ooniodoma limoniella, Elachista kllmiuiella, and other special English species. — 

 E. Heeing, Hauptmann, Rastatt, in Baden, Germany : April 22nd, 1886. 



[The occurrence of Cosmopteryx Scriba'iella so far North as Stettin (and even 

 in plenty there) is of special interest. The insect was first detected at Vienna, and 

 has since occurred at Breragarten, in Switzerland, where the larva was discovered in 

 the leaves of Arundo phragmites, on the banks of the Reuss. Yery probably it will 

 yet be found in some of the Southern counties of England. — H. T. S.]. 



Trifurcula pallidella and Genista tinctoria. — I took my specimen of T. 

 pallidella {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvi, p. 186) among Genista tinctoria, of which 

 there was only a very little in a small plantation which, thanks (for once) to game- 

 preserving, is not likely to be ploughed up. The plant grows sparingly in the next 

 field, which has a north aspect and few insects occur there. 



Pallidella seems to be on the alert from 7 to 9 a.m. ; perhaps we have a knack 

 of missing many species which fly at that time of day. (Ecopkora grandis I know 

 likes the morning sun. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 6, Fishergate Hill, Preston : March 

 Zlst, 1886. 



On the synonymy of some species of Nyctemera. — Nyctemera annulata, Boisd., 

 Dbld. (nee Walk.) ; N. Doubledayi, Walk. This species has been generally confused 

 with the following, from which it is easily and at once separated by the wholly black 

 cilia ; there are other minor differences, and the larvae of the two species arc also 

 quite dissimilar ; this species is liable to have the white markings greatly reduced 

 or even wholly absent, which is never the case in the following. Boisduval's figure 

 is admirable and unmistakeable, the only fault being that the yellow lines of the 

 thorax (which was perhaps defaced) are not represented, but no similar species with 

 a wholly black thorax is known to me. Boisduval's type was from New Guinea ; I 

 have only seen the species from New Zealand, where it is generally abundant. 



Nyctemera arnica, White ; N. annulata, Walk. White's name must now bo 

 adopted for this species, in which the terminal half of the cilia is sharply yellowish- 

 white ; it is confined, so far as I know, to Southern and Eastern Australia. 



Nyctemera tertiana, sp. n. I propose this name for the species described and 

 figured by Snellen (Tijd. v. Ent., 1878, 72, pi. vi, 6) as N. latistriga, Walk., which 

 it is not ; believing it to be sufliciently distinct from N. lacticinia, Cr. The species 



