46 THE entomologist's record. 



OxYTELus iNSECATus, Gr., IN LoNDON DISTRICT. — I netted One 

 example of this scarce Oxytelua in Bedford Park, Chiswick, on July 

 14th, 1905.— Ibid. 



H OPT E R A. 



Synonymic note on Thamnotrizon cinereus, Gmel. — In a paper by 

 Shuguroff (i?fr»f Puisse d'Entoin., 1905, p. 3), I observe that the author 

 makes use of the name employed by de Geer for this familiar insect. 

 On looking np the references, I see that it is described by de Geer in 

 1773 {Mem., etc., iii., p. 436), whereas it is apparently first described 

 as cinereus in 1789 {Syst. Nat., ed. Gmelin, \., p. 2071), so that 

 de Geer's name has the prior right ; as we have seen elsewhere, 

 Bolivar employs the generic name Olynthoscelis, Fischer de Waldheim, 

 which has priority over T/uvnnotrizon, Fischer. If, therefore, this is 

 correct, we must call our old friend under the new and unfamiliar 

 name of Olijnthoscelis qrueoaptera, de Geer. — Malcolm Burr, B.A., 

 F.E.S., 23, Blomfield Court, Maida Vale. January llth, 1906. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Lita intermediella, Hdgn., an aberration of Gelechia frater- 

 NELLA, Dgl. — At the dispersal of the late Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson's 

 collection, the type specimen of Lita intermediella, which he introduced 

 as upec. nor. in Ent. Rec, ix., p. 36 (1897), came into my possession, 

 together with another example, worn to a shadow and bodiless, of 

 apparently the same form. The latter is doubtless the second 

 individual he refers to in Ent. Rec. [loc. cit.). An examination of 

 the type shows that intermediella, Hdgn., is undoubtedly a suffused 

 aberration of Gelechia fraternella, Dgl., though this statement is 

 superfluous if Mr. Tutt intended his editorial remark [Ent. Rec, loc. 

 cit.) that " several Micro-lepidopterists have since referred the speci- 

 men to L. fraternella,'''' to definitely cancel Hogdkinson's note to which 

 it is appended. Since Hodgkinson merely says that it is " quite 

 distinct from Lita fraternella and Lita viscariella, the yellow spots 

 being smaller and the insect more mealy in general appearance," I 

 m.ay mention that ab. i)iteriiiediella has the ground-colour whitish- 

 brown instead of bright reddish-brown, and the black scales are more 

 evenly distributed over the forewing, so that it has a more uniform 

 and less variegated appearance than the typical form. The white 

 subterminal fascia is present. Hodgkinson's statement, that " the 

 yellow spots" are "smaller," can only refer to the fact that the 

 reddish-brown ground-colour of G. fraternella appears merely as a 

 slight and very partial tinge in his finer example of ab. intermediella, 

 in the much wasted one it is entirely absent. — Eustace E. Bankes, 

 M.A., Norden, Corfe Castle. December &Oth, 1905. 



Oxyptilus hieracii, Z. : Discrepancy in descriptions. — Zeller 

 himself, in Linn. EJnt., vi., 350, gives the third feather of the hindwing 

 as having the dorsal scale-tooth " a little before the apex," while 

 Stainton {Man., ii., 441) says that its scale-teeth (which are opposite 

 one another) lie " before the tip," and Meyrick {Handbook Brit. Lep. 

 p. 432) describes them as "apical," since they practically reach the 

 tip. Barrett, however, in Ent. Mo. May., xxv., p. 431, states, with 



