56 RARE AND LOCAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



small moth new to Britain, and perhaps also new to science. It 

 is one of a large group of, mostly, minute moths, remarkable for 

 the curious forms of the cases in which the larvae live ; at present 

 it is supposed to be Coltophora flavaginella (Lienig) ; but its 

 proper identification has not yet been satisfactorily determined. 

 A short description of these insects, with one or two remarks 

 upon them, will, perhaps, with the figures now exhibited, make 

 this brief notice worth insertion in our next vol. of Proceedings. 



(ENECTRA PILLERIANA (SCHIFF). (PI. II., figs. B, C, D.) 

 Stainton's Manual, II., p. 197. 



Width of the upperwings, 8 lines. The general form and 

 appearance cannot be better given than in the accompanying 

 figures. 



The colour of the upper wings is, in the types from Ventnor, 

 ochreous crossed by two more or less distinctly defined, but 

 irregular oblique brownish markings ; the outer extremities, as well 

 as a small marking near the base on the inner margin, are also 

 brownish. These markings are more or less formed by fine 

 irregular lines. The general hue of the heath form is dull 

 brownish ochreous, tinged with olive (PI. II., fig. B) ; the 

 characteristic darker markings being often very indistinct, and in 

 some examples quite obsolete. Another, found in saltmarshes in 

 a neighbouring county, is of a glossy reddish-ochreous ferrugineous 

 hue, with darker markings the female, however, being uni- 

 colorous. The hinder wings are more or less dark brownish, and 

 unicolorous. 



(Enectra pilleriana occurs on several boggy parts of Bloxworth 

 Heath. On one of them it was found in tolerable abundance during 

 the month of August. The only previous recorded occurrence of 

 it here was in 1862, when several were taken by myself and 

 Mr. Frederick Bond. Excepting one of these examples (Fig. C), 

 which is of a yellowish intermediate colouring, slightly tinged with 

 red, all the heath specimens are of the uniform dull greyish olive 

 hue above described, and contrast very strikingly with a handsome 



