8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
more or less rufescent, and occasionally the second abdominal 
segment rufous.at the sides. Terebra as long as the body. 
Varies very considerably in size; I have seen males with a 
length of 5 mm. and others no. more than 3 mm. 
Seven females and one male, all without data, are in Dale’s 
Collection, and one male and three females in the Hope Museum 
Collection. Cambridge University Museum possesses a single 
female taken by C. G. Lamb at St. Merryn, June, 1916. 
Harwood has a fine pair, the male bred from a Colchester larva 
of Retinia buoliana, July 8th, 1914, and the femaie from the 
same host at Wivenhoe, August, 1910. I have taken it at the 
Fleam Dyke, Cambridge, and also in the New Forest in August. 
Orgilus ischnus, Marsh.:| 
Described by Marshall from specimens taken by Bridgman. 
One labelled “‘ type” is in the British Museum. In this example 
the abdomen is longer and wings smaller and narrower than 
in obscurator. Antenne 32 jointed i in both sexes; terebra rather 
longer than abdomen. 
I have never met with the species myself, nor is it represented 
in any of the collections to which I have had access with the 
exception of the single specimen mentioned above. 
SOME NOTES’ ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH 
MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA IN THE HOPE DEPARTMENT 
OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 
By F. C. Wooprorpe, B.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from vol. liii, p. 259.) 
LYMANTRIIDAE. 
Lelia ceenosa.—Series of 85 from various collections. One 
female from the Meldola is labelled ‘‘ Burwell Fen. Dr. W. 
Horley.” 
Ocneria dispar.—A long series from the Hope and Spilsbury 
and more modern collections, some of them apparently of great 
age. Three males from the Spilsbury Collection have the inner 
and central portions of the fore wing nearly filled with whitish, 
with a dark narrow band along the outer margin. A small, 
seemingly very old male has all the wings of a dingy white. 
Lymantria monacha.—A series of 6, bred by Mr. C. Rippon 
from New Forest parents, have the abdomen banded with pale 
yellow instead of the normal pink. The fore wings are suffused 
with black to an abnormal extent. : 
|| ‘Spee. Hym. Eur.,’ vol. v bis, p. 197. 
