1873.] 65 



NOTES ON BRITISH TORTETCJ^S. 

 BY C. a. BARRETT. 



{contitnied from p. 38). 



Coccyx finitimana, (Gn. MS.) Wilk.— Altered by Dr. Wocke to 

 nemorivaga, Tengs.( 1847), and in this correction Prof. Zeller concurs. 

 Specimens sent by Mm are rather smaller, and not so sharply marked 

 as ours, but there appear to be no distinctive characters, and the 

 habit o£ nemorivaga of occurring on high mountains is confirmatory. 



In Mr. Doubleday's list this species is made synonymous with 

 teedeJIa, Linn., which name, however, is considered by German entomo- 

 logists to belong to a subsequent species. 



Coccyx distinctana, (Bent. MS.) Wilk. — This name is sunk by 

 Dr. Wocke as a synonym oi proximana, H.-S., but I think incorrectly. 

 Zeller cow^iiAQV^ pi'oximann, H.-S., to be merely a variety of our next 

 species (Jiyrciniana, D. L.), and this a specimen sent by him certainly 

 confirms, but he also thinks that distinctana is a variety of that species 

 with unusually dark markings. With this I cannot agree, since the 

 fore-v,ings in distinctana are very long, and the narrow, first pale 

 fascia is further from the base than in that species. Wilkinson, 

 however, although he gives an excellent description, seems to have 

 overlooked these points. 



A second locality for this species has been found. Lord Walsing- 

 ham having taken it in West Norfolk. 



Coccyx hyyciniana, L^slar. — Dr. Wocke and Professor Zeller agree 

 in referring this species to taedelJa, Linn. (Clerck), and have substituted 

 this name for comitana, Schiif ., Tr., under which it is commonly known 

 in Germany. As Linne's name is long anterior, it will be necessary 

 for us to make a similar correction, but in our case the confusion is 

 slightly enhanced from the name having already been applied in our 

 collections to Jinitimana (^nemorivaga) . 



M. Jourdheuille says : — " larva between leaves of fir and pine, under 

 " a web." I have, however, found the larva laying down the leaves of 

 spruce fir parallel with the shoot, and spinning its web between them. 



Capun ocliraceana, Steph. — Dr. Wocke alters this to faviUaceana, 

 Hiibn., and places it next to Amphysa prodromana. 



Cartella hihinana, Haw. — According to M. Jourdheuille's calen- 

 dar, the larva of this species feeds in the catkins of alder as well as 

 birch. 



