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out of hazel." !RIr.'A. Edmunds, of Worcester, has a spe- 

 cimen captured in 1861, of whicli he thus writes : '' Six 

 years ago I beat out of a birch tree into my net a line and 

 perfect example of this handsome insect. A season or two 

 afterwards the Rev. E. Horton I believe captured three, but 

 it was only very lately that he kindly gave me the welcome 

 information that it was a species new to our lists. Neither 

 of us knew at the time of capture that we had ferreted out 

 anything new in Worcestershire. The fact is cheering, and 

 I trust the next season will enable us to complete our series 

 of this species, and likewise to assist our friends." 



To convey to our readers an idea of the insect it may be 

 mentioned that the expansion of the wings is fi-om 9 to 10 

 lines, that the anterior wings are narrower than in y. fas- 

 ciellus, of a rusty brown, more or less sprinkled witli green- 

 ish-yellow scales towards the base. 



Fabricius says of the species " ales Ibieares,'' an expres- 

 sion which is much too forcible, but the remainder of his 

 description is very characteristic. 



Opostega reliquella, Zeller. 



Zeller, in the third volume of the Linnasa Entomolom'ca 

 (published in 1848), describes, under the name o^ Reliquella, 

 a new species of the genus Opostega. He then possessed 

 only two specimens. 



Subsequently, he met with it in some plenty j and, in 

 1850, he sent me a fine series, which were taken on the 

 banks of a flooded meadow, on the 29th and 30th of May. 



The species closely resembles Salaciellaj and is only dis- 

 tinguished from it by the presence of a (rather faint) yel- 

 lowish fascia beyond the middle of the anterior wings. Sa 

 laciellai as far as I am aware, has never the slightest indica- 



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