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happily cireumstanced. He gives a good figure of Crambus 
contaminellus, as we know it, and it agrees exactly with the series 
in the Doubleday collection of our Sussex and Lancashire form. 
There is no doubt that the typical Crambus contaminellus of 
H.-S. was the Lancashire and Sussex form, and, as far as can 
be fairly made out from Hiibner, that his was the same species. 
To make the matter more complex, both are comparatively coast 
species, C. contaminellus apparently always so, but C. cantiellus, 
besides being a coast species, inhabits sometimes inland districts, 
as the Blackheath district, and also districts of Central Europe, 
probably, however, old coast lines in almost every case, so that 
the locality of the insect can do little towards the identity of 
its species. 
I might add, that in the figure of the insect (Kntom. 53), 
although the second doubly-angulated line is correct as to 
direction, it is more zigzag in shape; and when [ referred to C. 
geniculeus (Entom. 56) I may have been misleading, as it was 
again only to general shape and direction that I intended to refer, 
as the line itself is coutinuously zigzag throughout, and much 
finer than in that species. 
Rayleigh Villa, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, S.E., March 8, 1886. 
NOTES ON THE CRAMBUS FROM DEAL. 
By W. H. TucGwe... 
Tue two notices on this subject in the last two numbers 
of the ‘Entomologist, by my friend Mr. J. W. Tutt, have 
interested me greatly, as examples had been in my cabinet 
since 1877 as doubtful Crambus contaminellus. A short account 
of them may possibly interest others. 
On my first visit to Deal, August, 1877, I took five females of 
this Crambus, and I could not satisfactorily determine them, so 
sent them on to Mr. C. G. Barrett, one of our best authorities on 
British Micro-Lepidoptera, and about them he wrote me, Oct. 31st, 
1877 :—‘‘ I believe that your Crambus is the female contaminellus, 
though I never saw one before. Mine seem to be all males. 
The Blackheath contaminellus, which I expect you have, is rather 
redder and less distinctly marked than coast specimens. If 
