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at the meetino' of the EntomoWical Societv on the 7t.h 

 December. Since then, among his set of pinetellus, Mr. W. 

 C. Boyd has detected a second specimen, which was cap- 

 tured by his cousin some years ago, he believes, in Scotland. 



EuPCECiLiA Heydeniana, H.-S. 

 This insect is in most of our collections confused with the 

 true subroseana of Haworth, or representing that species, 

 which is the rarer of the two. Vide Mr. McLachlan's paper 

 on Eupoecilice, ante, p. 90. 



Eupcecilia Degreyana, McLachlan. 

 This handsome Ewpoecilia, captured by the Hon. T. De 

 Grey, M.P., in Norfolk, and at Wicken Fen, is intermediate 

 between roseana and ciliella (ruJiciUana, Haw.), but with 

 the form of the latter. A description will be found in this 

 volume, ante, p. 91. 



Pterophorus (Oxyptilus) l^tus, Zeller? 

 Oxyjitilus Iwtus, Zell. Isis, 1847, 903 ; L. E. vi. ; Stgr. 2605. 



In both sexes fore-wings pale ochreous, apical parts of fore- 

 wings indistinctly double-streaked with whitish; the hind 

 part of third digit of the hind-wing with a few black scales 

 some distance before the apex. 



Now in pilosellce, which, of our British species, IcBtus 

 most nearly resembles, the third digit of the hind-wing is 

 black-scaled on both sides, 07il?/ a little before the apex. 

 In fact, until now, we have possessed no plume with the 

 tuft of black scales disposed as in Icetus. 



N.B, Professor Zeller divides his genus Oxyptilus into 

 two sections, by the character presented by the disposition of 

 the black scales. 



To the Hon. Thomas de Grey, M.P., we are still further 



