THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Vou. XIX.) APRIL, 1886. [No. 275. 
CRAMBUS CONTAMINELLUS IN THE ZELLER 
COLLECTION. 
By J. We ort. 
In my notice on a probable new species of Crambus (Kntom. 
29) I expressed the opinion that the two species which obtain 
in Sussex and Lancashire, and known as C. contaminellus, 
and the Deal species (which probably is the same as the Black- 
heath species) for which I proposed the name cantiellus, were 
possibly mixed in the Continental collections ; I therefore went 
through Zeller’s collection of the Crambide at the Natural 
History branch of the British Museum at South Kensington, 
and examined carefully his series of Crambus contaminellus. I 
found, indeed, a good mixture, and made the following notes on 
the insects comprised in the series, which, I think, will be 
interesting. , 
1. Six specimens of the Lancashire and Sussex Crambus 
contaminellus, labelled contaminellus, H., and on the label refer- 
ence is made to H. fig. 59 and Tr. ix. 1, 124. On referring to 
Hiibner, fig. 59, I found a Crambus figured with a dot on the 
central nervure of the wing, and a broken line near the hind 
margin. This most certainly would not do for the Deal insect, 
as in all fine specimens the first line (crossing the centre of the 
wing) is distinguishable throughout, and the second line, although 
finely marked, is not broken, and this I consider a very marked 
characteristic of the Deal insect, for, while the markings of C. 
contaminellus may be looked upon as two broken lines made up 
of a series of dashes, they are never broken up in the Deal 
ENTOM.—APRIL, 1886. L 
