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called upon me. He then saw the series, and agreed with me it 
was not A. Schreibersiana. On his return to Dresden he com- 
pared the specimens sent, with others in his collection, and 
pronounces them to be the. Hupecilia Gilvicomana of Professor 
Zeller, and the EH. flaviscapulana of Dr. Herrich-Schiffer, the 
former having priority of nomenclature. 
This new and handsome addition to the British list of 
Lepidoptera is most nearly allied to our EH. curvistrigana. In 
our cabinets it should be placed between that species and EH. 
angustand. 
56, Brompton Road, S.W., Oct. 9, 1879. 
[This species oceurs near Frankfurt-on-the-Main, but is 
rather scarce; it flies about the middle of August. The larva 
lives there, according to A. Schmid, on the flowers of the golden- 
rod (Solidago Virgaurea), around which plant the moths are also 
captured in Silesia. According to Von Heinemann the larva 
feeds on Chenopodium ; and Miihlig bred this species from larvee 
which he found in July feeding on the blooms of the wall-lettuce 
(Prenanthes muralis).—KALTENBACH’S ‘ PFLANZENFEINDE. | 
LIFE-HISTORIES OF SAWFLIES, 
Translated from the Dutch of Dr. S. C. SNELLEN VAN VOLLENHOVEN, 
By J. W. May. 
(Continued from p. 175.) 
PHYLLOTOMA TENELLA, Zadd. 
See Zaddach, Beschreib. neuer oder wenig bekannter Blattwespen 
(1859), p. 28, Pl. fig. 17. 
Phyllotoma eneo-nigra, flavo-maculata, abdominis lateribus albo- 
maculatis, pedibus albis, basi nigris. Long. 4 ad 5 mm. 
It is owing to the kindness of Mr. P. Cameron, jun., of 
Glasgow, that I am enabled to give the life-history of this 
species. I take this opportunity of thanking him sincerely for 
his good offices. I first received from Mr. Cameron some 
imagos, and subsequently several leaves with some larve and a 
pupa. That the present species is indigenous (in the Nether- 
lands) was shown in the first instance by the larva having been 
found in this country,—it was observed by Mr. Snellen on 
