1881.3 



Mr. Murray, of Carnforth, has last year added two species to the "VVitherslack 

 list, in a male of Psyche opacella and one of calvella, both of which he most kindly 

 presented to me. We have together looked for cases of these, but are yet unsuccess- 

 ful.— I. H. Theelpall, Preston : April 2,7th, 1881. 



[I give here a copy of the description of the larva of Tinea argentimaculella, 

 made April 13th, 1859, from larvae kindly sent me by the late Mr. E. S. Edleston. 

 " Length 3 lines. Elongate, slender, greenish-white ; the spots darker, but incon- 

 " spicuous, except two larger darker spots on the sides (the upper one being darkest 

 " and largest) of the 3rd and 4th segments ; head black, and 2nd segment black, 

 "except in front. Makes long green tubes of lichen and web." — H. T. Stainton.] 



Suggestions for obtaining the eggs of Acentropus. — I am extremely anxious to 

 study the early stages of Acentropus niveus, and shall feel very much obliged to any 

 one who will procure me some eggs : if a small tightly-fitting tin box or two, which 

 would not add much to the collector's impedimenta, were carried with the usual chip 

 boxes, and any females that might be captured, were shut up in them with small 

 sprays of the Potamogeton, a little wetted, I think the danger of the eggs drying 

 up would be greatly obviated, and I should have a good chance of receiving them in 

 safety, for they might travel through the post in the same boxes. — Wm. Buckler, 

 Emsworth: May, 1881. 



Tortrix Lafauryana, Ragonot, a species new to Britain. — It is with pleasure 

 that I record the capture of the above species. Whilst collecting Micros in July 

 last year, a few miles from this town, I beat out two specimens of a Tortrix which 

 I was unable to name. I sent them to Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, who kindly informed me 

 that they were T. Lafauryana. They were taken in a boggy portion of a heath. — 

 E. A. Atmore, 8, Union Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk : May, 1881. 



[Tortrix Lafauryana was described by M. Eagonot in the Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 5 me serie, vol. vi, p. 403 (1876), and also figured. He says that it has been 

 confounded with croceana, Hub., from which it may be easily distinguished by the 

 costal fold in the male ; also that it is allied to sorbiana, forming a passage from it to 

 the species with pale hind- wings. His description is long, and it will be sufficient to 

 say that Lafauryana has a folded and strongly arched costa, hollowed before the 

 apex, the male resembling sorbiana, but with shorter wings and yellower colouring, 

 the female approaching more in colouring to heparana. The fore-wings in both 

 sexes are glossy, and the hind-wings of a decidedly pale grey. One of Mr. Atraore's 

 specimens agrees most accurately with M. Eagonot's types, the other is redder and 

 more like the female in colour. 



This is a very handsome addition to the British fauna, and not easily mistaken 

 for any other species. The locality given by M. Eagonot is Dax (Landes), France. 



The larva, which he describes as very variable, feeds there on Myrica gale, 

 joining together the terminal leaves, and is very subject to parasites. The species 

 has since been discovered in Holland (vide Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, vol. xxii, 

 p. 128).— C. G-. Barrett, Pembroke : 13th May, 1881]. 



