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T. longicomis, Schum. : a decidedly common species, though 

 Walker says, " Eare. In Mr. Haliday's collection (I)." I do not at 

 present recognise T. truncorum, Mg.. and hortensis, Mg., but I think 

 I have the former, and, if so, it is a very handsome species. 



T. hortulana, Mg. : I believe this to be a good species, allied to, 

 but much rarer than, the next, though also widely distributed ; its 

 wiug pattern is not quite the same. 



T. varipemiis, Mg. : common from Sussex to Tongue. 



T. nubeculosa, Mg. : if I possess this species at all, it is a single 

 male from Dolgelly ; and on the same day (June 13th, 1887) I took 

 two males of another unrecorded British species, which seems to be 

 allied to T. pruinosa. 



T. excisa, Schum. : I still think Walker had the common T. serif ta 

 before him when he described his T. excisa ; nevertheless, true T. 

 excisa is British, as I caught a beautiful male at the Llanberis foot of 

 Snowdon on June 8th, 1887. 



T. scripta, Mg. : one of our commonest species from the Isle of 

 Wight to Sutherlandshire, or Newmarket to Dolgelly. 



T. melanoceras, Schum. : I possess one male from Inveran (July 

 17th, 1886), which may be this species. 



T. plurnbea, P. : the species which Walker evidently intended by 

 this name occurred in thousands near the half-way hut up Snowdon 

 from Llanberis on June 8th, 1887. Whether it is the species Fabri- 

 cius intended is open to very great doubt. 



T. pruinosa, W. : not at all uncommon ; a peculiarly leaden hued 

 insect. 



T. luteipennis, Mg. : I once found the males tolerably common in 

 a small spot in Wicken Fen, but I could not detect any of the long- 

 bodied female, nor could I catch any males twenty yards away from 

 the spot ; another time the same thing happened to me at Barton, 

 near here, and so up to the present I do not possess the female. 



T. Jlavolineata, Mg. : neither common nor rare, as far as I can 

 judge ; sometimes large females of this species are very conspicuous 

 insects, so much so, that when I caught one at the entrance to a mine 

 at Bettws-y-Coed, I thought I had some magnificent new British 

 insect ; I have never caught it further north than Bettws-y-Coed. 



T. htnata, L. : a rather common species from Lyndhurst to Aber- 

 deen. 



