116 Mr. J. Curtis on some nondescript or imperfectly 



consider that it is quite unnecessary to disturb a name by which 

 it was so well known, to admit one proposed by Guene, who in 

 a letter calls it delunella. It was no doubt negligent of Haworth 

 to transcribe Linnseus^s characters of his Tinea Resinella, which 

 he did with Ts, but as there is no such Linnsean insect as Tinea 

 Resinea, no confusion can arise from retaining Haworth's and 

 Stephens^s name, by which it is identified in all our catalogues 

 as well as by Wood^s figure 1448, and an appropriate name it is, 

 as the moth is always found on the trunks of Coniferse. 



28. 13. E. angustea, Curt. B. E. fol. 170, expands 7 lines. 

 It is ashy-brown, the upper wings very narrow and gradually 

 tapering to the base, towards which is an oblique broadish pale 

 curved line, dark outside ; on the disc are a minute oval and the 

 usual p spots, but indistinct ; and beyond them a very oblique 

 sinuose pale narrow line well defined, the inner margin brown ; 

 base of the cilia gray with a line of black dots : under- wings pale 

 yellowish-fuscous. 



Wood's figure 1450 is not my E. angustea, but merely a va- 

 riety of E. Mercurella. The only specimen I possess I caught 

 in a damp cave at Tunbridge Wells the end of Aug. 1819, where 

 I saw many more. 



29. 14. E. alpina, Dale's MS. It expands 9 lines and may 

 be only a large variety of the foregoing, but all the examples are 

 paler, with an additional black oval spot below the minute one 

 on the disc, and upon the under-wings is a pale transverse striga 

 nearly parallel with the margin. 



Mr. Dale's specimens were taken on Schichalion. 



Family Tineid^e. 



30. Genus 1008. Depressaria, Haw. ; Curt. Brit. Ent. fol. & 

 pi. 221. 



20. D. bipunctosa, Curt. Guide. It expands 11 lines and is 

 whitish-ochre, the spaces between the marginal nervures of the 

 upper wings are slightly fuscous, and on the disc of each are two 

 distinct black dots, forming a longitudinal curved line, with an- 

 other at the base, and the apex of the costa and posterior margin 

 bear ten black spots : the under-wings are pale fuscous : antennae 

 and legs fuscous. 



This is not a variety of Hiibner's T. Verbascella, as I once 

 suspected, and it certainly is not of any species I possess. It is 

 the form of D. liturella, W. V., but is smaller, and at once di- 

 stinguished by the colour of the legs, the uniform tint of the 

 upper wings, with the dotted costa and darker under-wings. The 

 only specimen I have seen was taken in the New Forest by Sir 

 Charles Lyell about twenty years since. 



