mtrrence in Dorsetshire of "$httalis 

 gicceUa," Eeller, 



A MOTH NEW TO BRITAIN. 



By E. R. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



HAVE much pleasure in recording the addition to 

 the British list of this obscure but interesting 

 little Butalis, which I was fortunate enough to 

 meet with near Weymouth in the end of June, 

 1886. Not long previously Mr. C. W. Dale 

 happened to mention that some years ago he had 

 taken B. variella in that locality, whereupon, although he had no 

 doubt about the identity of the species, I determined to investigate 

 the matter, for I knew that neither Erica cinerea, nor Calluna 

 vulgaris, upon which we find the larva of B. variella in the Isle of 

 Purbeck, grew in the neighbourhood. Accordingly, towards the 

 end of June, I went down, accompanied by Mr. Dale, to search 

 for the insect, and was fortunate in meeting with specimens of a 

 Butalis, which struck me at once as being very different from the 

 typical B. variella, and which have since been identified by Mr. H. 

 T. Stainton as B. siccella, Zeller. 



This species is described by Professor Zeller in the " Linnsea 

 Entomologica," x. 257, and it may be interesting to quote the 

 remarks he there makes about it, as compared with the closely 

 allied B. variella. 



