292 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Trestacea (PI. VILI., fig. 6). New Specigs (Pl. VIL, fig. 5). 
Harpe angulated, without corona, Harpe angulated, without corona, 
apex rounded. apex bluntly pointed. 
Clavus angulated to a point, Clavus roughly rounded, smooth, 
densely clothed with short hairs. | with a few scattered hairs. 
Uncus cygnated. Uncus cygnated, larger than tes- 
tacea. 
/Adwagus scobinated, with fowr Aidceagus scobinated, with a 
rows of teeth at the junction of — double line of teeth rising from 
the vesica, these narrow to two the junction of the vesica to- 
rows along the vesica, then ex- _—_— wards its opening. 
tend in a double line towards 
the opening. 
Vesica with a number of small Vesica with a number of cornuti 
cornuti. larger than testacea. 
‘‘T have therefore no hesitation in pronouncing these light 
specimens to be absolutely distinct, and apparently constant. 
Whether they are identical with the Luperina nickerlit of Freyer 
or not I am at present unable to say, as I have so far failed 
to obtain specimens of this species for examination.” —F. N. 
PIERCE. 
Since the above report was communicated, Mr. Pierce has 
obtained a pair of nickerlit from Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster. 
I also sent him a male specimen from Bohemia that I received, 
together with an example of the female, from Hermann Rolle, of 
Berlin. I, too, have a male specimen through the same source 
as Mr. Pierce. 
Examination of the genitalia is not yet complete, but so far 
as it has gone Mr. Pierce has decided that nickerlii is not the 
same species as the Lancashire Luperina, and he is further of 
opinion that nickerlit, as represented by the specimens he has, 
may prove to be a form of L. testacea. L. gueneei then will stand 
as a distinet species, and the status of nickerlii must await the 
result of further examination. In the meantime I present, on 
Plate VII., figures of two of the nickerlii that I have. Fig. 2 
represents a male which was in an old collection in Vienna, and 
was originally taken by Herr Nickerl, in the neighbourhood of 
Prague, about fifty years ago. Fig. 1 shows a female specimen 
from Bohemia. The ground colour of all the specimens is 
brownish grey suffused with deeper brown; this suffusion is 
deeper in the male figured than in the female. The male sent 
to Mr. Pierce agrees in colour with the female figured. 
Concerning the distribution of nickerlit very little is known ; 
it has been recorded from Germany and South France, but its 
home seems to be in Bohemia. L. gueneet appears to be almost 
exclusively British. 
