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This local insect is commoner in England tlian most parts of the 

 continent. 



I have this from Canterbury, and it is, or, perhaps, I should say, 

 was, not uncommon in some marshy ground by the Warren, near 

 Teignmouth. 



VECTIFEE, L. 



This is an insect of very restricted range, being, according to 

 Dr. Staudinger's catalogue, confined to Sicily and Dalmatia, and I 

 have not been fortunate enough even to see a specimen of this rare 

 Cramhus. I can, therefore, only give a translation of the description 

 in Zeller's " Chilonidarum and Crambidarum Genera et Species," 

 vehich is as follows : 



" Collar and fore part of tlie thorax snowy- white, with the palpi on the outside 

 grey, and irrorated with dusky (fusco), anterior-wings elongated, rather acute (sub- 

 acutis), brown, with the middle stripe of nearly equal width, thinly divided before 

 the posterior margin, not extending into the fringes, fringes shining grey, hind- 

 wings pale grey, ^ ." 



" Very like bisectellu.i (a New Zealand species), but it has the wings not acu- 

 minate, and the stripe only once divided. From monott^niellus (a species from Asia 

 Minor) it differs in this, that the stripe besides being divided is not prolonged into 

 the fringes ; from siihlicellus (a New Zealand species), in the stripe not being toothed 

 above, and the fringes not tessellated. Collar snowy-white, palpi scarcely as long as 

 the thorax, attenuated, grey above, sprinkled with dusky, with the base white 

 beneath. Antennae serrated, scarcely setaceous. Fore part of thorax white in the 

 middle, but the remainder yellowish-grey. Legs on the side from (the body) white, 

 on the side next (the body) dusky grey. Tibiae and tarsi of the hind-legs grey. 

 Abdomen bluish (lividum), at the base white. Anterior-wings dusky-brown, 5 — 5^'" 

 long, elongated, posteriorly widened gradually, moderately acute, with the hind mar- 

 gin rounded. The central stripe rather narrow, snowy-white, until it arrives at the 

 very posterior margin, and touches it above the centre. The upper margin (of the 

 stripe) straight and narrowly bordered with fuscous, lower border less straight ; but 

 the shape of the upper part is not constant : for in one specimen it is somewhat 

 narrowed before the margin. Not far from the margin a narrow brown line (in that 

 specimen ending in a point) cuts its obliquely, and with its direction so changed 

 that it would form an acute angle, ascends to the costa. There are little black dots 

 on the posterior margin, the fringes are shining grey, and have on the base at the 

 end of the stripe three scarcely perceptible small black dots. Posterior-wings pale 

 grey, somewhat dusky towards the apex, fringes greyish -wliite. On the under-side 

 the fore wings are dusky grey, with the dorsal portion paler, and with the posterior 

 part of the costa narrowly edged with ochreous. Hind-wings even paler than 

 upper-side." 



ruRCATELLUS, Zett. (22 — 24 mm.). 



The fore-wings are uniform olivc-bi-own, much darker in some specimens than 

 others. The wliite stripe is narrower and shorter than in the rest of Division D, in 



