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NEW BRITISH TINEINA. 

 By H. T. Stainton, F.L.S. 



On the present occasion I have only to notice one de- 

 scribed new species. 



Nepticula centifoliella, Zeller. 

 Stainton, Nat. Hist. Tineina, vol. vii. p. 204, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Several specimens of this species were bred, in April last, 

 by Mr. W. C. Boyd, of Cheshunt, from larvae collected the 

 previous autumn. The insect is readily distinguished from 

 the two other rose-feeding Nepticulce^ Anomalella and An- 

 guUfasciella — but has considerable resemblance to the sloe- 

 feeding Plagicolella, and the hawthorn-feeding Ignohilella. 

 *' From Plagicolella it is distinguished by the browner (less 

 golden-brown) base of the anterior wings, and by the fascia 

 being less shining ; from Ignohilella, in which the basal half 

 of the anterior wings is rather of a pale golden-brown, the 

 different colour of that portion of the wing is a sufficient 

 distinction, and besides the fascia is more oblique in Centi- 

 foliella than in Ignohilella^' N. H. Tin. 1. c. 



A Coleophoray captured in tolerable plenty amongst long 

 grass near Haslemere by Mr. Barrett at the end of May, 



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