106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



matter of identity was settled when I bred the second brood (vide 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxv. pp. 104—10(5). 



Amblyptilia acanthodactyla and A. cosmodactyla. — Will Mr. 

 South kindly say what are his reasons for placing these two 

 species as one ?* Mr. Porritt says, " I separated the larvse quite 

 easily before the moths were bred, at any rate the two forms of 

 larvpe produce the two forms of the moth, and vide Knt.M.o. Mag. of 

 November, J 88(5, and of December, 1885" (iwZiii.). Supposing it is 

 a dimorphic species, does not the onus prohandi rest on Mr. South's 

 shoulders ? Until Mr. South has reared the two species from the 

 same female, I should prefer to look upon them as distinct. 

 Eayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, S.E, 



NEW SPECIES OF CRAMBI FROM JAPx\N AND COREA. 



By J. H. Leech, B.A., F.L.S., &c. 



(Plate V.) 



As with the species described in last mouth's ' Entomologist, 

 the following new species have been compared with the National 

 Collection, South Kensington, Mr. Moore's and Dr. Staudinger's 

 collections ; M. Eagonot, of Paris, our greatest authority on 

 these groups, has also been kind enough to compare my types 

 with his fine collection. 



Crambus oknatellus, n. sp., Plate V., fig. 2. 



^ . Primaries Llackish brown ; a lonj^ituclinal white streaJc, slender at 

 the base, gradiially increasing iu width to the middle of the wing, where it is 

 intersected by a line of the ground colom', its continuation beyond being 

 represented by an ill-defiued white patch, extending to the white submar- 

 ginal line, which latter starts from the costa in an oblique direction towards 

 outer mairgin, then iormiug a sharx^ angle turns iu the opposite direction, and 

 terminates on the inner nipa-gin. On the costa just beyond the middle are 

 two short white oblique lines ; between these and the submarginal is a short 

 white streak also on the costa. Fringes dark brown, with some white scales 

 below apex. Secondaries pale gi-ey-brown, outer margin and costa broadly 

 fuscous. Palpi white, with some blackish scales. Head, thorax, and 

 abdominal junction white. Expanse, 20 mm. 



One example taken by myself at Nagahama in July, 1886. 

 Closely allied to C. alpinellus, Hiibn., but the hind margin of 

 primaries is nearly straight and the apex is not produced. 



* I cannot see any good and sufiicient reason for separating them. The colour 

 difference, either in the larval or perfect state, is not, in my opinion, of si^ecific value, 

 seeing that in all other respects tlie two forms appear to be alike iu all the stages of 

 whicii we have any knowledge. With regard to breeding one form from ova 

 deposited by a female of the other form, I may say that I should not expect to rear 

 the cosmodactyla form from a typical female, except such female was obtained in a 

 locality where both foims occurred together ; neither should I hope to see specimens 

 of the type form among the progeny of a female cosmodactyla taken iu a place where 

 the type did nut occur. — li. S. 



