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LEPIDOPTEEA. 



New British Tineina in 1871. 



By H. T. Stainton, F.R.S. 



The novelties I have to announce this year are a new species 

 of Incurvariaj which was at first supposed by its captor to 

 be tenuicornis, Sta., and may perhaps have been previously 

 overlooked by collectors under the idea that it was that 

 species, and a well-known Continental species of Gelechia 

 {Lita). 



A most interesting- discovery made bv Mr. Hodg-kinson 

 was the larva of JEidophasia Messingiella (E. M. M. vol. 

 viii., p. 71), feeding the beginning of May on the leaves of 

 Cardaviine amara. 



Incurvaria canariella, n. sp. 



Esp. al. 6 lin. Head and face canary-yellow. Antennae 

 slightly pubescent in the male, slender towards the tip. An- 

 terior wings unicolorous greyish-fuscous, rather glossy, 

 sometimes with a yellowish tinge on the extreme costal edge 

 beyond the middle ; cilia concolorous with the wings. Pos- 

 terior wings dull grey, with the cilia rather paler. 



This differs essentially from Incurvaria tenuicornis in the 

 form of the anterior wings, Tenuicornis resembling in that 

 respect a female 3fuscalella, but Canariella has the anterior 

 wings shorter and blunter than the male of 3Iuscalella. The 

 same blunt form of wing will also distinguish Canariella 

 from Talceporia (?) jmhicormis. 



I am indebted to the Rev. R. P. Murray, of Mount 



