148 LEPIDOPTERA. 



coleopterous collecting expedition, secured it in the neigh- 

 bourhood of a fir wood. 



It is first noticed as British in "The Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine (vol. iii. p. 163). 



The figure on the frontispiece of this volume will give a 

 good idea as to markings, but a little requires to be said 

 about colour. 



The ground colour of the fore-wings is dull orange finely 

 reticulated with faint brown, and the large V-like mark which 

 obscures the outer half of the wing (formed by the junction 

 on the inner margin of two fascice, one of which starts ob- 

 liquely from about the middle of the costa, the other, parallel 

 with the apical margin, by a broader origin from near the 

 apex) is of a darker brown, with a slightly reddish tint. 

 The arms of this V-mark enclose a somewhat kidney-shaped 

 spot of the ground colour, and at the apical margin beyond 

 the SQConA fascia the ground colour is again visible. 



On the continent T, ochreana has occurred at Thuringia in 

 Saxony, in Silesia, and near Vienna. It has the reputation 

 of frequenting fir woods, but beyond tliis little seems to be 

 known of its habits. 



DiCRORAMPHA FLAVIDORSANA, mihi (Fig. 5). 



This species comes between the D. alpinana and D. pet'i- 

 vereUa of our lists, the male partaking of the characters of 

 the former, the female of those of the latter; the male, 

 however, is readily separable from alpinana by its darker 

 ground colour, from petiverella by the brightness of its ob- 

 lique apical bands, and from both by the cleainess of its con- 

 spicuous yellow dorsal patch ; the female is not easily distin- 

 guishable from either sex of D. jietiverella, though the apical 



