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decided in this country. We certainly have an inconvenient 

 number of very closely allied species just at this point— 

 schallerianaf potentillana, comariana,yroteana, comparana 

 — and Mr. de Grey believes still another species, inter- 

 mediate between proteana and schalleriaiia, larger than the 

 former, and having the appearance of being more thickly 

 scaled and less glossy than the latter. 



Argyrolepia luridana, Gregson. 



In Newman's Entomologist for May, at page 80, Mr. 

 Gregson thus describes a Tortrix which he considers to be 

 an Argyrolepia new to science: — "Expands about three- 

 eighths of an inch. Antennse short. Palpi, face, head and 

 thorax whitish straw-colour. Upper wings silvery straw- 

 colour; near the base a faint ochreous indistinct striga, then 

 a well-defined broad central band reddish-ochreous, cut in- 

 wardly in the centre of the outer edge by a light triangular 

 notch, which forms the base of a square in the band from 

 costa to notch ; below the cut is a rather darker dot on the 

 outer edge of the central band, then a slight suffused mark 

 below the disk, and a large shapeless patch near the tip of 

 the wing, darkest upon the costal edge; point of w^ing light; 

 cilia suffused. Under wings silvery-grey. Several specimens 

 first taken by Mr. Hodgkinson, early in May, at Withei-s- 

 lack, AYestmoreland, and again, when we (J. B. H. and 

 C. S. G.) were there together, on the 18th of May, 1869." 



Pterophorus aridus, Zeller. 



In a foot note to the last Annual paper Mr. Stainton quotes 

 from a letter of Professor Zeller to the effect that a plume 

 moth captured by Mr. D'Orville, in Devonshire, appeared 



