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in any deep chink of bark, or in confinement in a folded-up 

 bit of leno or ^auze ; Mr. Christy records that its ovipositor 

 is ((uite a quarter of an inch long, and that when alive its 

 body is round and plump, but loses its shape when killed. 



On April 20, 1871, Dr. H. Guard Knaggs wrote in the 

 Entomolorjists' Monthly Magazine, •'! have just had a very 

 fine male example of Nyssia lapponaria^ Duponchel, sub- 

 mitted to me for determination. It was, I believe, captured 

 by Mr. Warrington in Perthshire." In 1895 Mr. W. M. 

 Christy, of Emsworth, wrote to me as follows : '• I have taken 

 this species myself in Scotland. I do not care to give the 

 locality or even the county of the capture, as I made no secret 

 of nw movements." Through his care in this respect the 

 locality of the species still remains, I believe, a secret, and 

 very possibly its extinction may, by this action, have been 

 averted. Mr. Christy has reared it in, I think, several 

 generations, and has liberally supplied it to me, in different 

 stages, as well as to others who were desirous of studying it. 

 In a further note just received, he says, " I have taken it 

 myself in the Highlands of Scotland." Its only recorded 

 locality in these islands is Perthshire. Abroad it is known 

 to occur in Lapland, and in the Upper Engadine in East 

 Switzerland. 



o. N. zonaria, Srhl.jf. — Expanse of the male l\ inch. 

 Antennas pectmated ; thorax dark grey, striped with white ; 

 abdomen barred with pale yellow; wings ratlier narrow, 

 white, with grey nervures, margins, and oblique transverse 

 stripes. Female sub-apterous ; body black, barred with 

 yellow. 



AntenniB of the male rather short, strongly pectinated 

 with long, much ciliated teeth, dark grey, back of the shaft 

 white ; palpi drooping, thickly covered with projecting 

 hoary-grey hair-scales ; head very shaggy, grey-brown, the 

 tips of the erect scales white, and a white tuft under the 

 base of each antenna ; thorax fiuffy from abundance of soft 



