128 NEVtT BRITISH TINEINA. 



Brussels, M. Fologne liberally supplied me with a fine series 

 of the males of this species, which at that time I thought 

 undescribed. 



On my return home from the South of France, at the 

 beginning of April last, I found waiting for me a letter from 

 a new correspondent, Mr. A. II. Svvinton, with a sketch of 

 a moth he had met with at the latter end of March, 1867, on 

 the shore of Southampton Water, opposite Calshot Castle — 

 the species was found flying, not uncommonly, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of spruce firs. On asking for the sight of a spe- 

 cimen, Mr. Swinton most liberally sent mc several, and I 

 at once recognised the insect taken by M. Fologne, near 

 Brussels in 1861. 



I have been very near describing the species as new, never 

 having thought of looking for it amongst the species 

 described from Tuscany ; but in working at my forthcoming 

 volume on the Tineina of Southern Europe, when I came to 

 the description of Solcnohia conspurcatella, it at once oc- 

 curred to me that this was my Southampton friend, and on 

 comparing description and specimens together, their identity 

 Avas at once apparent. 



The following is the description which I had written out 

 for my friend M. Fologne, whilst under the impression that 

 the insect was new to science : — 



" Alis anticis angustulis, albido-stramineis, nitidis, con- 

 cinne fusco-punctatis, maculis tribus majoribus fuscis, 

 prima dorsi basim versus, secunda dorsi ante medium, 

 tertia disci pone medium ; antennis distinctissime 

 ciliatis. 



<'Exp. al. 5J-6J lin. 



" Head fuscous. Face fuscous, mixed with whitish straw- 

 colour. Antennas pale fuscou?, very distinctly ciliated. 



