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A SPECIES NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 



By NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A., 

 P.B.S. 



an afternoon early in August, 1890, Mrs. 

 Richardson and I were collecting at Portland, and 

 I had left her for a short time to look for one or 

 two species which occur on some steep slopes, 

 when she caught a very small moth and boxed it 

 with some difficulty and soon afterwards a second. 

 She was immediately struck by the very hairy appearance of its 

 head and shewed me the moths as soon as I rejoined her, but as it 

 was then growing dusk we were unable to make much out of them, 

 though they did not look like old acquaintances. We caught no 

 more on that day, but on examining the insect on the next 

 morning we came to the conclusion that it was probably a Tinea, 

 and if so, new to Britain, as it did not belong to any of the known 

 British species. Mr. Stainton has since kindly named it for me 

 from German specimens in his collection. As might have been 

 expected, we went several times to Portland in pursuit of this 

 little creature, but took altogether only eight specimens between 

 us. The weather was not good during the early part of 

 August on the days on which we went, and moths did not fly much. 



