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NOTE ON A NEW NEPTICULA BRED FROM ROSE IN LANCA- 

 SHIRE BY MR. HODaXINSON. 



BY H. T, STAINTON, F.R.S. 



Mr. J. B. Hodgkinsou has been so fortunate as to breed three 

 pecimens of a brilliant Neipticula new to science, from larvae found 

 ist autumn miuing in the leaves of roses, at Ley land, near Preston, 

 1 Lancashire. 



Mr. Hodgkinson's first impression was that he had simply de- 

 '3cted a new locality for N. Gentifoliella, which Mr. W. C. Boyd has 

 epeatedly met with at Cheshunt ; but the very first glance I had of 

 Ir. Hodgkinson's specimens satisfied me (as it did also Mr. Boyd) that 

 i was a very different species from centifoliella. 



For this new species I would propose the name — 

 Nepticula Hodgkinsoki. 

 t may be described as follows : 



, Exp. alar., 2\ — 3 lines. Tuft of the head black. Anterior- wings with the en- 

 ire basal portion rich golden-brown (with no tinge of purple before the fascia), 

 scia placed beyond the middle, nearly perpendicular, bright pale golden ; beyond 

 le fascia the apical portion is deep purple, with the cilia grey. There are two 

 )ecimens exactly alike, which both appear to be males. The third specimen is a 

 male, and has the basal portion of the anterior wings paler, more bronzy ; the 

 scia is more of a silvery lustre, and rather obliquely placed. 



The mined rose-leaves, of which Mr. Hodgkinson has sent me 

 Decimens, are ordinary sized leaves, thus not to be mistaken for the 

 aves of Rosa spinosissima, which, moreover, does not grow at Leyland. 



It may, however, not be undesirable to mention that Mr. W. H. 

 '. Fletcher has noticed near Worthing that the leaves of Rosa spino- 

 ksima growing in very sheltered places ." well underneath the nut 

 ashes " were mined last autumn by the larva of a NepticuJa which 

 osely followed the margins of the leaf, and of which the mine 

 I fiemed to be too small for either of the common rose-species. 



Lewishara : September 12th, 1884. 



ON PARTHENOaENESIS IN THE TENTHREDINID^, 

 BY P. camero:n^. 



Since the publication, in 1882, of the first volume of my Mongr. 

 rit. Phyto. Hym., wherein I gave an account of what was known up 

 ' that time of the occurrence of Parthenoorenesis in saw-flies, I have 



