36 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Habitat. — Deesa. 



Observations. — Described from three females and a single 

 male sent to Prof. F. V. Theobald by Major C. G. Nurse. The 

 male specimen was not in a very good state, some of the legs 

 being absent. The three females show some variation in wing 

 markings, especially in the spots under the large costal spot, 

 and in the size of the wings. The first submarginal cell is 

 markedly contracted at the apex. 



COLEOPHORA TRICOLOR, Wlsm., AT SEAFORD, 



SUSSEX. 



By Philip J. Barraud, F.E.S. 



I should like to record the capture of two specimens of the 

 above-named moth at Seaford on July 9th, 1905. These were 

 taken by my friend Mr. T. F. Furnival, who is now in South 

 Africa, and who gave me his collection of Lepidoptera before 

 leaving this country. The specimens have been kindly identified 

 for me recently by Mr. Eustace R. Bankes. 



Bushey Heath, Herts : January 7tb, 1907. 



NOTE ON COLEOPHORA TRICOLOR, Wlsm. 

 By Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S 



The capture of Coleophora tricolor in Sussex is of the greatest 

 interest, for hitherto there has been no evidence of its occurrence 

 outside the county of Norfolk, where it was taken, amongst 

 mixed rough herbage on the Breck sands, by Lord Walsingham 

 [who described it in Ent. Mo. Mag. ser. 2, x. 201 (1899)], and 

 was subsequently met with by Mr. E. A. Atmore. Tricolor could 

 hardly be confused with any known British species except lixella, 

 but this it resembles so remarkably closely that it can only be 

 satisfactorily separated therefrom by certain antennal differences, 

 the most obvious of which is that the pale antennae have the 

 terminal two-thirds completely ringed with brownish-grey, 

 whereas in lixella the corresponding portion, although dark- 

 spotted on the under side, never shows dark annulations. 



I am much indebted to my friend, Mr. Philip J. Barraud, for 

 most kindly adding one of the Seaford specimens to my collec- 

 tion, and earnestly hope that we may, in the near future, hear of 

 the discovery of the larva and food -plant of C. tricolor, for no 

 Coleophora larva ought to be able for long to defy detection. 



Norden, Corfe Castle : January 12th, 1907. 



