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having the central shaft divided by an extremely fine yellow line. JSlyira 

 pitchy-brown, nerves yellow ; corium — area, adjoining the clavus, pitchy-brown ; 

 in the other areas the colouring is more or less interrupted in the middle ; 

 apical* areas with a spot at tlie base, and the margin narrowly brown. Sternum 

 black ; prosternum, lateral and posterior margins yellowish-white. Legs sordid 

 yellow ; thighs — 2nd pair with a row of black spots on the upper edge ; 3rd 

 with three or four spots on the upper-side, next the apex, and on the inside, a 

 short black streak ; tibice — inner margin black, except the base ; upper and lower 

 edges of the outer margin with a row of black spots ; spines stout, long, brown ; 

 apex narrowly black ; tay-si — 3rd pair yellow ; Ist and 2nd joints at the apex 

 broadly black ; 3rd joint black ; apex very narrowly yellow. 



Abdomen above black, with a line down the centre, broadest at the apex ; beneath 

 entirely black ; genital plates, towards the apex, brownish ; connex'wum above 

 white ; jimctions of the segments narrowly black. Length, \\ — 2 lines. 



Scarce. It has occurred in Scotland and Devonsliire. 



{To be continued). 



NOTES ON BEITISH TORTEICJES. 

 BT C. G. BARRETT. 



(continued from p. 130). 



Tortrix icterana. — Altered by Wocke to paleana, Hiibn. (1790), 

 a much earlier name. This Professor Zeller confirms. But paleana 

 is an evident misj)rint for paJleana,; and Hiibner subsequently 

 sunk the name altogether. Mr. Doubleday thinks it identical with 

 the yellow variety of viridana {Suttneriana, Schiff.). I have received 

 from him a cimous variety of this species, having loliitish hind icings. 

 It is found, not uncommonly, in the South of Germany. 



Tortrix vihurnana, W.V., Pab. — Wocke alters this to vihurniana, 

 Eab. ('Mantissa Insectorum,' 1787),' but this change seems altogether 

 unnecessary, since vihurniana is evidently a misj)rint ; and Pabricius 

 himself corrected it to vihurnana in his ' Entomologia Systematica * 

 (1793). 



The larva is sufficiently polyphagous. In addition to the food 

 plants mentioned by "Wilkinson, M. Jourdheuille gives joined shoots 

 of Alisma plantago, Hanuneulus acris, Caltha palustris, and Ononis 

 sjyinosa ; and Professor Zeller tells me that he has bred it from one 

 of the Umbelliferce. 



Tortrix viridana, Linn. 



Tortrix ochreana, Hiibn. — Introduced into the British list on the 

 authority of a specimen in the collection of Mr. P. H. Harper, which 

 is said to have been taken in the New Forest. 



