299 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Deal sand-hills, together with an appeal for information. As I 

 have since obtained a good deal of information about the group, 

 it ma}' be of value to some of our micro-lepidopterists if I 

 attempt to explain what I have made out. 



There seems little doubt that my note has brought this 

 difficult group to the front, two new species having since been 

 differentiated, and I have already mentioned incidentall}'^ (Entom. 

 213) that I am indebted to many of our leading lepidopterists for 

 their kindness in helping me, both with specimens for reference 

 and with information. 



Referring to my previous paper, the form described as No. 1 

 (Entora. 29) has been decided by Mr. Stainton to be a new 

 species, and this will be described in an early number of the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., under the name of Gelechia (Lita) hlandulella, 

 Blandella is a synonym of maculea ; and as the species bears a 

 close superficial resemblance to maculea but is very much 

 smaller, the name hlandulella — " the pigmy blandella {maculea ") 

 — is very appropriate. No. 2 form (Entom. 29) must, so far as 

 I at present can determine, be considered a variety of hlandulella, 

 with the black oblique line obsolete. This form is much like 

 knaggsiella (which has the black line broken), but with the two 

 species side by side one can readily see the difference. 



I mentioned that No. la, an intermediate form, was named 

 knaggsiella by Mr. Coverdale. I have since received specimens 

 of the true Lita knaggsiella, bred by Herr Hoffmann, of Hanover, 

 from Stellaria holostea, which he kindl)'^ gave me for comparison. 

 These I compared with Mr. Stainton 's magnificent series and 

 some of the original British specimens, which Mr. C. G. Barrett 

 kindly sent me. Although the specimens of knaggsiella that 

 I inspected varied slightly inter se, the species has very distinct 

 characters, and cannot easily be confounded, when once seen, 

 with the allied species. My form No. la certainly is not L. 

 knaggsiella, but consists of very pale specimens of senii- 

 decandriella, which has lately been differentiated by Mr. Threlfall. 

 As specimens of semidecandriella, with perhaps a few hlandulella, 

 have been sent out from the S.E. coast for knaggsiella, the 

 existing series of this latter species want overhauling, and there 

 seems but little doubt that Mr. C. G. Barrett's few original 

 specimens (Entom. Ill) still stand unique as British. No. 8 

 was rigliily called (Entoin. 29) semidecandriella. Tliis is tlie 



