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NEW BKITISH TINEINA. 



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



The only novelties I have to announce on the present occa- 

 sion are the two species Zelleria SaxifragcB, Stainton, and 

 Chauliodus daucellus, Peyerimhoff. 



Zelleria Saxifrage, Stainton (Frontispiece, fig. 3). 



Dr. Buchanan White has recorded in the " Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine," vol. viii. p. 271, that he captured a spe- 

 cimen of this insect at Braemar, in July, 1871, amongst 

 Saxifraga aizoides. In 1872, he again met with it, and 

 says that he saio it commonly on the precipices of Maol 

 Ghyrdhy, in Glen Lyon, flying about the ledges, but was 

 only able to take a few specimens for want of time. 



The natural history of this species is given in the 

 *' Natural History of the Tineina," vol. xi. pp. 116—125, 

 pi. iii. fig. 3. It was previously only known as occurring in 

 Switzerland and in the South of Bavaria, where my active 

 friend, Herr Ernst Hofmann, detected the larva at the end of 

 May feeding under a web in the hearts of Saxifraga Aizoon. 

 This plant not occurring with us, the insect in Scotland was 

 found amongst the closely allied *S'. aizoides, showing that 

 it has the philosophic good sense to act upon the proverb — 

 " Si on n'a pas ce qu'on aime, il faut aimer ce qu'on a." 



In the Plate I have had represented (fig. 2), the some- 

 what allied Zelleria fasciapennella, Logan, a Scotch species 



