1873.] 95 



NOTES ON BEITISH TORTRICES. 

 BY C. G. BAEEETT. 



{Continued from page 67J. 



Anchylopera ramella,^iW.. — Not rameJIa, Linn., which is AYilldn- 

 son's Sedya PaykulUana. Mr. Doubleday, in the supplement to his 

 lists, corrects this to hnrpann,ll\xhn.,m\di. Dr. Wocke again alters it to 

 laetana, Fab. (1775), but this is an unfortunate alteration, since it 

 seems clear that Fabricius meant laetana, by which name he notices it 

 in his " Species insectorum " (1781). I can see no advantage in per- 

 petuating an error, and think that laetana should be adopted. 



This species seems to be an aspen feeder. 



AncliyJopera Illtterhaclieriana, Schiff. 



Anchylopera upupan<i, Tr. — I am indebted to my friend Mr. 

 Machiu for the loan of this and several other very rare and valuable 

 species, and for permission to send them to G-ermany. 



AneJiylopera suharcuana, Wilk. — Some months ago my friend Mr. 



Douglas WTote to ask me to send him specimens of suharcuana from 



the Norfolk fens, and, upon receiving them, assured me that they were 



quite distinct from the insect which he described under this name in 



the Transactions of the Entomological Society of Loudon, vol. v, p. 21, 



and which he had since ascertained to be merely a variety of hiarcuana, 



Staph. Wilkinson's description of suharcuana, however, agrees most 



accurately with the fen specimens, from one of which he evidently 



made it, so that he has either accidentally or intentionally adopted the 



; name of a mere variety for a truly good species. It however happens 



that this species was, pre'viously to the publication of Wilkinson's 



work, described by Herrich-Schiiffer under the name of inornatana^ 



which name, therefore, has priority, and the synonymy will be 



inornatana, H.-S. 



suharcuana, Wilk. {nee Dough). 



Dr. Wocke, however, sinks it as a variety of hiarcuana, in which I 

 totally disagree with him, since it not only differs in the form of the 

 fore-wings (which are narrower with more pointed apex), but also in 

 its habits, which are perhaps the most sluggish of any species in the 

 group. Nothing apparently will induce it to fly during the day, and 

 even at sunset it only flits for a few yards among the long grass, 

 dropping and hiding itself instantly if alarmed. 



A variety, of which the ground colour is grey and the markings 

 indistinct, has been met with in the New Forest, and has been supposed 



