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Mr. Barrett kindly lent me specimens of E, illotella and E. 

 prodromella for comparison. Of E. asteriscella I have not seen a 

 specimen ; but M. Ragonot says : " The principal difference I find 

 between asteriscella and your insect is that the inner margin of 

 asteriscella is ochreous, as in illotella ; the thorax is pale reddish- 

 ochreous-grey ; the wings are slightly tinted with ochreous or pale 

 brownish, whilst in your insect the fore-wings are more elongated, 

 of a uniform cinereous-grey, clouded with dark grey ; the veins 

 streaked with blackish as in asteriscella ; the thorax concolorous. 

 The second line does not appear to be indented on the discal fold as 

 in astenscella. Asteriscella measures 22 to 23 mill., whilst the 

 English specimen measures 26 mill." 



Of E. asteris M. Ragonot says nothing, except that its food- 

 plant is Aster tripolium, which does not, so far as I know, occur in 

 the neighbourhood where my specimens were taken. 



I have named the new species Bankesiella after my friend 

 Mr. Eustace R. Bankes, of Corfe Castle, in recognition of his Avork 

 amongst the Micro lepidoptera of Portland and Purbeck. 



Since the above paper was written I have taken two more 

 specimens of E. Bankesiella, both females, in very good condition, 

 in the same locality as the first two, one on June 29th, the other 

 on July 22nd, 1889. I am not aware that any others have yet 

 been taken by any one. 



This species seems to be very constant in its size, colour, and 

 markings, the only variations from the above description being that 

 the light greyish-ochreous patch at the base of the inner margin 

 has sometimes a brickdust tinge, and is in some specimens narrower 

 and more ill-defined than in others, and that there is occasionally a 

 tendency to a small whitish spot just beyond this patch and near 

 the inner margin. 



Fig. 7 represents Nepticula centifoliella, a species which, in this 

 country, seems to be very local and generally scarce where it occurs. 

 I found the larva feeding in the leaves of sweet briar at Portland, 

 and have bred both broods of the imago. An excellent life history 

 of this species will be found in Stainton's "Nat. Hist, of the 



