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Treitschke, very uiiintentionallj no doubt, helped a little to in- 

 crease the confusion. He was very probably unacquainted with the 

 insect now under consideration. He described a reliqtiana and gave as 

 synonyms Hiibner's permisctana, fig. 75, and the reliquana of Hiibner's 

 Yerzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge. 



Treitschke's insect was evidently something different from ours, 

 lud from his notice of the larva was clearly the vine-feeding Tortrix 

 Qow known as hotrana, yet Treitschke thought that Hiibner's fig. 75 

 [•epresented a fetnale of his species, whereas Hiibner's figure with the 

 :wo black triangular marks on the inner margin of the anterior wings, 

 ind with the white posterior icings, is manifestly the male of our well- 

 inown permixtana. 



As in these days the permixtana of the Wiener Yerzeichniss, and 

 ;he permixtana figured by Hiibner 187, seem alike lost to science. 

 :here seems no reason why Hiibner's name of reliquana should not be 

 Iropped, and the nskvae permixtana, given by him to his figure No. 75, 

 estored to that insect. 



It must, however, always be borne in mind that Lohesia reliquana 

 )f Wilkinson's British Tortrices, p. 280, and Lohesia reliquana of 

 5tainton's Manual, II, 226, are identical with Lobesia permixtana 

 >f Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue, p. 251, with Grapliolitlia 

 Lohesia') permixtana of Heinemann, p. 138, and with Lohesia 

 permixtana of Snellen's De Ylinders van Nederlaud, Micro-Lepid- 

 iptera, p. 277. 



German Entomologists seem to have generally overlooked the 

 imple fact that reliquana was a synonym of Hiibner's creation for 

 lis own permixtana, No. 75, and that, consequently, reliquana of 

 Hiibner has no separate existence from that insect ; the pretty moth 

 »f which I am treating is therefore both the permixtana and the 

 'eliquana of Hiibner. 



Now as to the habits of the species. Haworth, Lepidoptera 



it Jritannica, p. 406, says only: "Habitat apud no s infrequ ens." He 



nentions the black-tipped white hind-wings, and the black hind-wings, 



uggesting that these may indicate the sexes, but he says nothing of 



ocalities or times of appearance. 



Stephens, in his Illustrations, Haust. lY., p. 183, says : "Not very 

 mcommon, in June, in the woods of the metropolitan district, 

 requenting open places and hedges ; found also in plenty in the New 

 ''orest, Devonshire, &c." 



Wilkinson, in his British Tortrices, p. 280, says : " Not a very 

 ommon species ; slightly variable in size, but tolerably constant in 



