NEW BRITISH SPECIES SIXCE 1835. 53 



Coccyx nanana, Treit. ; first recorded as British, and 

 described by Douglas, in the Zoologist for 1846, at page 

 1267, under the name of Sericoris tenebrosana ; it is also 

 figured at page 1268. The species is excessively abundant 

 among spruce firs, and it seems incredible that it should 

 have previously been entirely overlooked in this country. 



Coccyx Vacciniana, Tischer; first recorded as British 

 by Mr. Chant, in the first volume of the Entomological 

 Magazine, page 181, in a notice of an " Entomological Tour 

 in South Devon, by Messrs. Chant and Bastley." "May 

 31 st, took a new Tortrix, for which we propose the name 

 Myrtillana ; we beat it out of the Vaccinium Myrtillus, 

 which was growing in abundance." Under this name, 

 Sericoris Myrtillana, it is described and figured in Hum- 

 phrey's and Westwood's British Moths, vol. ii. page 146, 

 pi. lxxxix. fig. 15. It has recently been taken among the 

 bilberry in the north of England, in great plenty. 



Retinia Turionella, Linn. ; this, the true Turionella, 

 was first recorded as British by myself, in the Zoologist for 

 1848, page 1990. — " I only know of one specimen, which 

 was taken by the Rev. W. Johnson, off a fir tree, at Birch 

 Wood, several years ago." Several specimens have since 

 been taken at West Wickham Wood, and it has also been 

 bred by Mr. Waring. The larva feeds in the young shoots 

 of the Scotch fir, and the crippled distorted appearance they 

 assume in April betrays the presence of the larva. The 

 larvae of Buoliana and jrinicolana do not distort the shoots 

 in which they feed, till May and June. 



Retinia sylvestrana, Curt. ; first recorded and de- 

 scribed by Curtis in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, 2nd series, vol. v. page 111. — " It was first disco- 

 vered by Mr. Dale, at Bournemouth, and from the 23rd 

 June to the 1st July, we found it there in 1846. It inhabits 



