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brown, plates black, in flowers of Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. It 

 always rolls into a ring when disturbed. The pupa is blackish. In- 

 certana, Tr., seems to agree closely with this species. 



co77imunana, H.-S. — Fore-wing 5 lixies by 2 barely, long, and 

 fairly equal in breadth, hind-margin rounded, apes not very pointed. 

 A handsome species, readily recognisable by its shape, having even, 

 oblique, dark grey fasciae, and the whole wing generally irrorated with 

 grey scales, or even dots. The distinctness of this species from typical 

 Wahlhomiana, and its remarkably long wings were pointed out to me 

 long ago by M. Eagonot, who also sent examples. 



In this country, it has been noticed principally in Cambridgeshire 

 and Huntingdonshire. Mr. Harold Huston took a number of speci- 

 mens some years ago near Chatteris, and this year several have 

 reached me, taken by Mr. A. F. Griffith, at St. Albans, where it does 

 not seem to be rare. 



Wahlhomiana, L. ?— This is not a satisfactory name to apply. 

 Wocke unites under it, virgaureana, subjecfana, and communana, with 

 a lot more names, but Eagonot assures me that it is a small species, 

 narrow-winged, but not so long as communnna. 



Some years ago, Mr. J. Gardner, of Hartlepool, reared several 

 small Sciaphilce from tops of Artemisia maritima, which seemed to me 

 to agree with this description. They resembled virgaureana, but had a 

 much straighter costa, quite straight in fact beyond the middle. 

 Larvae were sent to me, but they did not like the change of air, or of 

 food, and I only reared a very poor specimen, but cannot refer it 

 to any species, the straight costa, blunt apex, and narrow wings 

 being so peculiar. Further investigation will be necessary to prove, 

 first, whether it is distinct from all the previous species, and, secondly, 

 whether it agress with Linne's type of Wahlhomiana. 



Penziana, Wilk. (? Thunb.), heUana, Curt. — Length of fore-wing 

 6 lines by 2^ in breadth, long and narrow, and nearly triangular, 

 being very narrow at base, with nearly straight margins and long apex. 

 A very handsome species, with white ground colour, and sharply de- 

 fined, indented uai-row blackish fasciae. Found on rocks and hills 

 about Keswick, Cockermouth, Eaunoch, and other northern hill-regions. 



The only information that I have respecting its larva is from Mr. 

 Ilodgkinson, who says : — " The larva is a grass feeder, nibbles the tops 

 of fescue-grass at night, and lives in a silken gallery at the roots of 

 the grass. It is a hard species to breed." Mr. Hodgkinsou sent me 



