126 LEPIDOPTERA. 



ScoPARiA Zelleri, Wocke. 

 Scoijaria Zelleri^ Wocke, Vaterl. Ber., 1854. 



S. Zelleri is most nearly allied to S. ambigualis, but it is 

 considerably larger than that species. It is also broader in 

 the fore- wing, the apical margin of which is a trifle more 

 vertical ; the whitish-ground colour stands out more con- 

 spicuously on either side of the central fascia; the apical 

 aspect of the central fascia {i. e. the second line) is more 

 deeply crenated than in ambigualis. Mr. Horton's example 

 exceeds in alar expanse the largest ce7tibrce with which I 

 have yet met. 



Two specimens have at present been detected — one taken 

 by Mr. H. Pryer, at Norwood, on the 17th August, 1867, 

 the other by the Rev. E. Horton, in Dr. Hearder's dining- 

 room at Carmarthen, in July last. 



Crambus myellus, Hiibner. 

 Crambus myellus, Hub. 37 ; H.-S. p. 64 ; Chilo conchellus, 

 Tr. et Dup. ; Tinea pi?ietella, Scop. Fn. 224; (7. 

 Hercynii^f Heinemann. 



This species is very much indeed like Or. pinetellus ; but 

 whereas in the latter the pearly vitta is only cut up into two 

 parts, in the former it is divided into three, the last of which 

 is a linear portion, which is parallel with the apical margin. 



Myellus inhabits the mountains of Central Europe. It 

 has also occurred in Livonia, Fiidand and Lapland. 



Mr. Edward Saunders informs us that we are indebted to 

 Mr. N. E Brown (curator to Mr. W. W. Saunders) for 

 this pretty addition to our Crambidce. He captured a single 

 example sitting on a blade of grass on a wet afternoon in 

 July, near Aberdeen. It was exhibited by Mr. E. Saunders 



