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the wing, reaching the inner margin at about one-third of its 

 length from the base. The outer line starts from the costa rather 

 nearer the beginning of the inner line than the apex, runs about 

 two-thirds across the wing with a full curve, forms a bluntish 

 angle pointing inwards, and then goes with another curve towards 

 the anal angle. Both of these lines are often ill-defined ; some- 

 times one or both are absent ; by no stretch of imagination can 

 they be called parallel, nor have I seen a specimen in which there 

 is anything like a central V. In addition to the two lines there 

 is in C. contaminellus a more or less conspicuous black streak 

 from the base, running through the middle of the wing as far as 

 the inner line, which often at first sight appears to be lost in it, 

 but can usually be traced beyond it. I dare say I have bred 150 

 specimens or more, but never saw one in which this longitudinal 

 line was quite absent. On the other hand, none of the C. can- 

 tiellus you gave me have a trace of it.* 



" 5. In some of the males of C. contaminellus, and to a less 

 degree in a few of the females, there are traces of a dark marginal 

 line on the hind wings. There is no sign of this in the hind 

 wings of the specimens of C. cantiellus before me. It might per- 

 haps be seen on some out of a large number of bred specimens,! 

 and is in any case of no value as a character, being so often quite 

 absent in C. contaminellus. 



"Next to deal with the figures and descriptions: — According 

 to Staudinger and Wocke's 'Catalogue,' p. 220, Hiibner figures 

 C. contaminellus three times— fig. 59 as contaminella, fig. 442 as 

 inquinatella, and fig. 3G4 as immistella. Herrich-Schliffer figures 

 it twice — 88, male, and 89, female. 



" Of these figures we may dismiss Hb. 3G4. In his copy of 

 the work Prof. Zeller has written under it, ' angulatella Dup.' = 

 geniculeus according to Staudinger. I feel quite certain that, be 

 it what it may, it is nothing like either of the species we are 

 considering. Hiibner's fig. 442, inquinatellus, and H.-S. 88 and 89, 

 seem to me to be quite clearly the salt-marsh C. contaminellus. 

 Herrich-Schaffer's figures are very good, but Hiibner's wants the 

 basal streak ; the shape of the wings, and form and direction of 

 the transvei'se lines, however, are good. Of course Hiibner's 



* I have never seen one with any approach to this longitudinal hne. — J. W. T. 

 + In none I have had, some considerable number of which have been very 

 fine, has there been any trace.— J. W. T. 



