Cntoptria coecimaculana, Hiib. — This epecies seems to be common 

 upon the continent. It surely cannot be scarce on the chalk hills of 

 the south of England. If, as Wilkinson says, it occurs rather com- 

 monly there, I shall feel much obliged to any Entomologist residing 

 near the chalk who will procure me a few specimens. Zeller says it 

 occurs among Ononis in July. 



Catoptria conterminana, H.-S. — Eecorded and figured (uncoloured) 

 in the Entom. Annual for 1S64<, but not described. A short descrip- 

 tion may be useful. 



Head, thorax, and palpi pale drab, antenuse brown. The fore-wings of a smooth, 

 delicate fawn colour ; basal patch darker, becoming pale brown at its angulated outer 

 edge. Beyond this is an ill-defined pale blotch on the dorsal margin, followed by a 

 darker cloud, which bounds the ocellus. The latter, a little paler than the ground 

 colour, encloses two or three indistinct black lines. The usual costal streaks are 

 hardly visible. Hind-wings pale grey. 



Zeller says " Larva in seed-heads of Lactuca sativa, often very 

 " injurious, difficult to rear." M. Jourdheuille says "In flowers of 

 " Lactuca virosa and scariola, garden lettuce, &c." 



It flies in July and August. 



Catoptria expallidana, Haw. — Better known in Germany under 

 the name of ihiceana, H.-S., Hein., but Haworth's name has priority, 

 and is adopted by Dr. Wocke in his Catalogue. Prof. Zeller tells me 

 that his ohumlratana, described from a specimen from Livonia, is also 

 this species. 



{To be continuedj . 



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ON TWO NEW GENERA OF COLTDIIBM FEOM NEW ZEALAND. 

 by t. vernon wollaston, m.a., p.l.s. 



Fam. COLTDIID^. 



Genus TARPHIOMIMETES, nov. gen. 

 Corpus oblongum, convexuni, rugosum, setulosum ac squamoso-subvariegatum, 

 nccnon plus minus nodulosum ; capite in prothoracis excavatione valde profunda 

 usque ad oculos magnos prominentes nudos immcrso ; prothorace plus minus setoso- 

 noduloso, angulis anticis valde porrectis ac plus minus acutis, ad latera plus minus 

 eubrecurvo-explicato necnon plus minus eroso ; scutello distincto, rotimdato ; pros- 

 terno postice (inter coxas anticas) et mesosterno postice (inter coxas intermedias) in 

 lobos brevissimos productis ; mctasterno postice in medio (inter coxas posticas) bre- 

 viter et minute bifido, lobum triaiigularem segmenti abdominalis primi recipicnte ; 

 abdomine e segmentis 5 composito, segmentis (Imo sub-longiore excepto) longitudine 

 8ub-aequalibus. Antennae prothorace paulo longiores, distantes, ante oculos sub 

 margine capitis insertse, ll-articulatae, articulis 1™° et 2<io crassis, illo elongato, hoc 

 breviore sub-rotundato, 3ti" elongato gracili, 4*" ad 8'^^™ gradatim magis roluudatis. 



