1*20 LEPIDOPTERA. 



varieties of Sericoris irrigiiana of Herricb-Schalfer. It is 

 very similar to Daleanaj but smaller, and the anterior wings 

 fire more pointed; all the specimens I took are males. Several 

 able Entomologists have seen my specimens, and are of opinion 

 that the species is distinct from Daleana^ though Mr. Double- 

 day thought it possible that the latter was only a variety of 

 irrigiianay 



In a previous note (at p. 113, Ent. Mo. Mag.) Mr. War- 

 rington records the fact of his having captured irriguana at 

 Rannoch, but makes no comment on the occurrence. Dr. 

 White, also, has taken the species in his locality for Z. 

 exulans. 



I have seen some of these specimens and consider them 

 distinct from our Daleana, which by-the-by is omitted in 

 Staudinger's Catalogue. Irriguana, H.-S., is itself a variety 

 of Pentkina metallicana, Hb., according to Staudinger; and 

 curiously enough, among several other localities, Scotland is 

 given for metallicana, while its variety, irriguana^ seems to 

 be confined to Alpine and Polar Norway, the central 

 Alps of Europe, and the mountains of Altai (in Western 

 Siberia). 



Phoxopteryx paludana, Barrett (Ent. Mo. Mag. viii., 

 p. 134). (Fig. 5.) 



For the discovery and description of this pretty little new 

 Phoxopteryx we are indebted to our old friend Mr. Barrett, 

 who carefully points out its distinctive characters in "The 

 Entomolos^ist's Monthlv Macfazine." 



Pli. paludana is allied to Ph. Lundana, but its wings are 

 lonorer and narrower, and the dorsal blotch is much flatter 

 and more angulated, the fascia distinct and more acutely 

 angulated and tlie space beyond it pale. 



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