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The words " marginis postici," which, as they stand, seem un- 

 translatable, probably induced Dr. Wocke in his Catalogue to consider 

 Ilawox'th's insect a Diclirorampha ! 



I may remark that pygmceana appears, at present, to be by no 

 means an abundant species. During the last half of April T have been 

 able to secure only three specimens myself, and the total number 

 taken does not exceed a dozen. E-atzeburg states that during cold | 

 and rainy weather the moth will not fly, but drops down to the ground, j 

 if disturbed. The almost total absence of fine and sunshiny days ' 

 may, therefore, easily account for its scarcity. On the other hand, it 

 may be that the majority of the brood were over before the first 

 examples were discovered, and that those subsequently taken were 

 only stragglers. On the continent, March and April are given as the \ 

 i\m.e iov pygmcsana; April and May for rti/eyrt??«. j 



Merton Cottage, Cambridge : 

 3Iay 4:th, 1887- 



[As Haworth described his suhsequana in 1S12, and Fischer's 

 aliegnana (accurately described by Zeller in the Stettin. Entomolog. 

 Zeitung, 1849, p. 245) was first described by Duponchel in his Fourth 

 Supplementary volume, p. 409, under the name of ahiegana in 1842, 

 Haworth'a name has priority by 30 years, and should be retained for 

 this species. \ 



It is rather singular, considering how few Tortrices occur in the 

 early months of the year, that two somewhat similar species, both with 

 white, or nearly white, hind-wings, should occur in March and April. 

 — H. T. Stainton.] 



UaJonota ohsciirana, Stph. (1834) versus ravulana, H.-S. (1849). — While lately 

 looking over the figures of the Tortrices in Wood's " Index Entoniologicus," that of 

 ohsctirana, Stph., attracted my attention, as being wonderfully like ravulana, H.-S. I 

 have since had an opportunity of seeing, in the collection of the British Museum, 

 Stephens' own type of his ohscurana, probably, and almost certainly the identical 

 specimen which Wood depicted. It is a very perfect and well-marked example, of 

 what we have been accustomed to call ravulana, H.-S. This name must, therefore, 

 now sink, as Stephens' obscurana has the priority by fifteen years. — Id. : May Qth, 

 1887. 



Ephestia ficulella, Barrett, = desuetella, Walker. — In the British Museum 

 Catalogue (Suppl., p. 1719) Walker has described, under the name of Nephopteryx 

 desuetella, an Ephestia from Australia which is certainly identical with E. ficulella, 

 Barrett. I have found the species (as well as E. eluteUa) common enough and 

 widely distributed in Australia. Of course Walker's description is unrecognisable, 



