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rate, there can be no mistake about the species occurring in 

 this country. 



SCIAPHILA COMMUNANA, H.-S. 



As unfortunately Mr. Bond is from home at the present 

 time, I can say very little concerning this novelty, which 

 was brought forward by my fiiend before the Entomological 

 Society (at a meeting held April 5, 1869) as a species new 

 to Britain. I am unable to say by whom it was captured. 

 Heinemann gives communana, H.-S., as a synonym of suh- 

 jectana, Gn. (Ann. de la Soc. de Fr. 1845) = Logiana, 

 Haworth ; and he regards subjecfana as a variety of Wahl- 

 homiana, Linne. Wahlbomiana is in the list of reputed 

 species attached to Mr. Doubleday's Synonymic Catalogue; 

 but co7nmunana, for all that, is, I suspect, a good new 

 species, and we have plenty of room for new species in the 

 genus. 



Hyperm^cia augustana, Hiibner. 

 This is an exceedingly interesting discovery, insomuch as 

 by it not only has an addition to our fauna been secured by 

 the Hon. Thomas De Grey, but an error in our nomenclature 

 has been detected by Mr. Doubleday, who is ever ready to 

 step honestly forward in the cause of truth. Mr. De Grey 

 thus introduces the new British species and the correction 

 to our synonymy in the Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. 251: — "In 

 August, 1866, I took one specimen of a Tortrix, which in 

 July of the following year I sent to Mr. Doubleday for his 

 opinion upon it. He kindly informed me, in a letter dated 

 July 4th, that Mie believed it was the true II . augustana of 

 Hiibner, of which he did not possess a specimen ; he had, 

 however, carefully compared it with Herrich-Schaffer's figure, 

 with which it agreed very well.' In a second letter, dated 



