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beneath, abdomen more finely and sparsely punctured. According to 

 Nylander, who examined the types of Fabricius, the metatarsus of 

 fulvipes type is, excepting the apex, clothed with yellow hairs, thus 

 differing from both of Schenck's species, but agreeing less with his 

 labiata than with his fulvipes. 



The form from Southern Finland mentioned by Nylander (Adnt., 

 ex. mon. Ap. Bor., p. 249) also resembles the latter, having the " sco- 

 pula fulvous." 



Taking Schenck's characters for the German species, the following 

 synopsis will enable the males of the known species of the genus to be 

 distinguished. 



iabiata, Fabr. Tip of hind tibia drawn out beneath into a tooth, before which 



is another small blunt tooth. 

 LABIATA, Sch. A slight emargination on the inner border of the hind tibia 



before the tip, the tip not drawn out into a tooth. 

 CiLiATA. Lower face of hind tibia produced at apex into a short three-toothed 



process. 

 PATELLATA. A stout, oblique, truncated projection from the tip of the hind 



tibia beneath. 



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NOTES ON BRITISH TORTRICES. 

 BY C. G. BAEEETT. 



{Continued from vol. xvi, page 244). 



Asthenia scopariana, H.-S. This very pretty species (new to 

 Britain) has been reared by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson from larvae found 

 by him at Dutton, near Eibchester, Lancashire, but, by an unfortunate 

 oversight, the food plant is not certain. Most probably it was the 

 common broom, but no doubt the discoverer will remedy the oversight 

 by next season. The moth is closely allied to cosmophorana and coni- 

 fer ana, as well as to splendidulana and strobilella. It is placed by 

 Wocke between corollana {Jleegerand) and cosmopliorana, and by 

 Heinemann between the latter species and Zebeana in the vast genus 

 Grapliolitha. In Wilkinson and Stainton's arrangement, it should 

 follow cosmopliorana in the genus Asthenia ; in Doubleday's it might 

 be placed in either Coccyx or Stigmonota. 



A short description of the moth may be useful — 

 Fore-wings dark olive-brown from the base to beyond the middle, thence pale 

 golden-brown ; markings pale silvery, consisting of three pairs of short costal streaks 

 (sometimes with additional costal spots between them), the first pair nearly or quite 

 uniting with a slender, upright or slightly curved dorsal streak, the second pair also 

 nearly uniting, with an oblique curved streak, which reaches the anal angle, and the 



