56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
form of D.atomella, the variation from the type (of what was then 
known as Atomella) being probably due to the difference of food- 
plant. For the last seventeen years I have bred this same species 
more or less freely; and it would appear, therefore, that my 
specimens were bred prior to the identification of it as a new 
species by continental entomologists. It is, I believe, proposed 
to retain for this species the name of Atomella, and to re-name 
the broom-feeding species (which has hitherto been called 
Atomella), Depressaria scopariella. 
[The above communication is an interesting supplement to 
information which appeared in the E. M. M. for last month, and 
which information, Mr. Hodgkinson informs us, was based on 
specimens sent to, and on correspondence with, Mr. C. G. Barrett. 
Mr. Stainton, in his ‘ Natural History of the Tineina’ (vol. xii. 
p- 226), points to the possibility of two species being confused 
under the name of D.atomella; and he states that ‘‘the two 
latest writers, Réssler and Von Heinemann, both agree in 
separating the broom-feeding species from that which feeds on 
Genista tinctoria, after we had for a series of years considered 
them identical.” —Ep. | 
ELAcHISTA DENSICORNELLA (Hodg.), A SPECIES NEW TO 
BRITAIN. 
Of this, hitherto undescribed, species I have been in the 
habit of taking occasional specimens for the last seven years at 
Grange-over-Sands, during the first week in June. I have sent, 
from time to time, specimens to Mr. Stainton. At first they 
were named by him as LH. teniatella, but from this nomenclature 
I dissented. However, after further examination, in another year 
he returned my specimens as new to science, differmg from 
E, teniatella by the thick antenne. This distinction I had 
previously pointed out. Having now both males and females I 
I think I may name and describe it. First of all it differs 
from EH. Adscitella, Zonariella and Megerella by its black head, in 
which it resembles HZ. teniatella. From this last species it differs 
in that it is smaller, the anterior wings narrower; and by the 
interrupted band on the wings, the sides of which are parallel ; 
but the most striking difference is that the antenne are consider- 
ably thicker than any belonging to the banded group of the 
family, and the body is also stouter; the head, antenne, body 
