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British list, appeared from amongst tliem. I at once sent one of these 

 to my friend Mens. Emile Ragonot, whose Revision of the British 

 species of PhycitidcB and OalJeridce appeared in the last volume of the 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. I quote the following from his answer to my letter : 



" It is the Euzophera terebrella, Zk., of our list, but the insect has been sepa- 

 rated by Meyrick from the true genus Euzophera, because veins 4 and 5 are from a 

 point, whilst in pinguis they are forked. Mr. Meyrick created the genus Cateremna for 

 terebrella and an allied Australian species which I have not seen. The larva of 

 terebrella has been described by Von Tiseher in Treitschke, and he mentions that 

 the cones are aborted. Zeller (Isis, 1848, p. 663) also distinguishes it from another 

 cone-feeder, Dioryctria decuriella, Hb. {abietella, W. V.). It is an interesting but 

 rather dangerous novelty for the British fauna." 



Ahies Douglasii, a native of California, has, like other introduced 

 firs and pines near it, been raised from seed, and the particular tree 

 on which this interesting species occurs is one of luxuriant growth 

 about 30 or 35 years old. The spot on which it grows has long been 

 my favourite collecting ground, and has been searched for Lepidoptera, 

 in July and August especially, for the last 23 years with few excep- 

 tions, probably several times in every season. I can scarcely believe 

 that the species could have been overlooked had it occurred in any 

 ab,undance in the course of at least the last ten years. Other trees 

 of the same species are found at about half a mile from this spot, but, 

 although one or two aborted cones were present on one of them, no 

 traces of this larva could be discovered. It is sufficiently evident 

 that however destructive the habits of this insect may be elsewhere, 

 it has not yet become a source of danger to fir trees in this country. 



Eor those who have not access to the German works the following 

 description may be found useful : — 



Antenyice brownish-fuscous. 



Head and palpi greyish-fuscous, the base of the haustellum white. 



Thorax and fore-ioings brownish-fuscous, interspersed with whitish scales. The 

 most conspicuous markings being an oblique narrow fascia about one-third from the 

 base of the wing, tending outwards to the dorsal margin. This fascia is angulated 

 outwards on the fold and inwards below it. Commencing about the middle of the 

 costa is a conspicuous white patch, which reaches half across the wing, and contains 

 two fuscous spots, the one at its lower edge, the other immediately above it. Below 

 this patch a few white scales are scattered across the wing towards the dorsal margin. 

 Beyond, but separated from it by a brownish-fuscous interspace, less wide than that 

 following the first fascia, is a narrow, waved, white, transverse streak, angulated in- 

 wards below the costa, the angle pointing to the upper spot in the white patch, 

 angulated outwards slightly above the middle, and again inwards immediately above 

 the anal angle. Along the apical margin is a row of six or seven bi-ownish-fuscous 



