136 LEPIDOPTERA. 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1869. 



Epichnopteryx betulina, Zeller. 



Epiclinopteryx betulina, Z. Is. 1839, &c. ; anicanella, 

 Bruand, 1853. 



Possibly the salicicolella of Bruand (which should more 

 correctly be termed sepiiim of Speyer, Isis, 1846) may occur 

 in this country ; if so, betulina is a species new to us. My 

 old friend Mr. Mitford, in a very able paper on some of the 

 British Psycliidm (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 94), has proved, 

 beyond a vestige of doubt, the latter to be a true Briton. 

 He thus records it : — *' I have lately bred about a dozen 

 specimens $ and $ of Psyche anicanella f^Y\\2i\\i\.. It feeds 

 on the green lichen on buckthorn stems at Hampstead. 

 Some years since Mr. Tompkins found a larva, or rather a 

 case, and bred from it what I believe was considered to be 

 salicicolella. I have hunted for this species ever since with- 

 out success till last year, when I bred first a $ and then a ? ; 

 which latter at once overthrows the salicicolella theory, as 

 Bruand's species of that name has the anal tuft of the female 

 brown, whereas this was white." 



Leucania l-album, Linne. 



Leucania l-album, L. ; S. V.; Esp. ; Hiibn. 227; 



Gn. i. 89, &c. 



Just twelve years ago, in the " Annual" of the period, our 



good friend Mr. Stainton put the very pertinent question 



" How much longer are we to wait for Leucania l-album?'' 



and he followed up the inquiry by stating his belief that in 



some of the 500 collections of Lepidoptera in the country 



