1882.1 135 



Dolerus ChappelU, Cam. Mr. Kirby (List of Hymen., i, 219) 

 sinks this name in favour of genicidatus, Lep., Mon., 122, 364. This, 

 however, appears to me to be an exceedingly doubtful determination. 

 To begin with, geniculatus has the knees testaceous, while with 

 Chappelli the legs are entirely black ; then, geniculatus is a (J , and 

 although the ^ of Chappelli is still unknown, yet it may pretty 

 safely be surmised, that its male will differ in the coloration of the ab- 

 domen from the ? , like its close ally anticus. If the fact of its having 

 the legs (like Chappelli) entirely black is a matter of no great im- 

 portance, then D. tremulcs, Klug (known only as a c? ) might well be 

 considered identical with geniculatus ; but I believe myself the latter 

 was founded on an extreme variety of D. fidviventris, the $ of which 

 is very inconstant in the coloration of the abdomen. 



Tenthredo chloros, Endow, S. E. Z., xxxii, 387 ; Kirby, List of 

 Hymen., i, p. 292, = viridis, L. (scalaris, Kl.). 



Glasgow : October, 1882. 



NOTES ON BEITISH TOETRICES. 

 BT C. G. BAKEETT. 

 {continued from p. 59). 



CEnectra Filleriana, Schiff.- — In May last I received from Mr. "W. 

 H. B. Fletcher, of Worthing, larvae found by him feeding on Statice 

 limoniwu on the South coast. They were variable, rather slender, 

 cylindrical, or when full grown slightly flattened, active, very pale 

 green, with a narrow darker green dorsal line, spots small, whitish, 

 with delicate hairs, head and dorsal plate jet-black, anal plate yellowish 

 or with the dorsal region grey, the ventral region greenish, the spots 

 large and distinctly white, and the dorsal plate brown bordered with 

 black on both sides. 



They rolled together the leaves of Statice limonium from above, 

 and devoured the upper surface, when full grown changing to dark 

 brown pupae in a slight cocoon, each in a rolled leaf. The moths 

 emerged in July, and were all CEnectra PiJle7'iana, a result wholly un- 

 expected to me, as I felt sure that those with large white spots would 

 produce Tortrix icterana, and the others perhaps the salt-marsh form 

 of T. costana. 



The description of the larva of this species quoted by Hofmann 

 from Audouin is as follows : " Green, yellow at the sides, with numerous 

 dark raised dots (wartlets) , head and dorsal plate black, the former 

 with a triangular white marking. From autumn to May in rolled-up 



