NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1853. 39 



lerstamm, E. A. 1856, p. 45, collected freely in Wales, and 

 in Cumberland by Gregson and others. 



155. Pterophorus Loewii, Zeller, E. A. 1858, p. 97, 

 captured by Mr. Gregson and Mr. Davis near South- 

 port; E. A. 1860, p. 143, bred by Professor Henslow 

 from larvte feeding in the capsules of Chlora jierfoliata. 



Besides the foreo^oing^, three other novelties have been 

 announced in the pages of the Annual. 



Xanthia ocellaris, Borkhausen, E. A. 1859, p. 147, a 

 specimen captured near Brighton. There is a note on this 

 insect in the '' Zoologist" for 1859, p. 6503, by Mr. R. Ander- 

 son, and the conclusion there come to was, that the Brighton 

 specimen was not the true Ocellaris^ but only a variety of 

 Xanthia gilvago. 



SiM^THis Parietari^, StaintoH, n. sp. E. A. 1855, 

 p. 64, founded on specimens bred from larvae found by 

 ^Ir. Harding on Parietaria Officinalis. I have since satis- 

 fied myself that these were only S, Fahriciana. 



Swajmmerdamia Pruni, Stai7iton, E. A. 1859, p. 150; 

 this was founded on an error, a specimen of one of the 

 CcBsiella group of the genus having been reported as bred 

 from a larva which has since proved to be that oi Apicella. 



S. Pruni is therefore altogether a mythical creature, 

 which has no existence in nature. 



On the other hand two novelties appear to have escaped 

 systematic enumeration altogether, viz. 



LiTHOCOLLETis Insignitella, ZelleVf which has been 



