1888.] 5 



distinctions relied on by Mr. Bond are that it is longer and more 

 curved than the case of G conspicuella, but I find, on the contrary, that 

 it is exactly the same length (7"') as my longest conspicuella cases, 

 whilst it is not so much curved as some of my cases of that species. 

 Seeing that Mr. Shepherd took neither the moths nor the cases him- 

 self, it seems quite possible that he may have wrongly connected in 

 his mind the cases of G conspicuella with the imagines of G Frischella, 

 and have been under that false impression when he gave the insects 

 and cases to Mr. Bond. As Mr. Bond's cases have for a long time 

 been the only obstacles to the union of the old trifolii with the modern 

 melilotella, I think it will be admitted that the question of G. Frischella, 

 L. (trifolii, Curtis), versus C. melilotella, Scott, has now been satis- 

 factorily settled.- May 2nd, 1888. 



CONCERNING SOME OP HAWORTH'S TYPES OF BRITISH 

 M ICR O-LEPID OPTERA. 



BY WILLIAM WAEEEN, F.E S. 



While lately looking over the types of Haworth's insects in the 

 British Museum, I made three discoveries, which are, I think, worth 

 recording. I must explain that each insect bears on its pin a small 

 browned ticket, with Haworth's own name, in, I presume, his own 

 hand-writing. In cases where Haworth's names have had to give 

 place to older ones, a large blue paper label is pinned underneath the 

 specimens. The names on these larger labels, as well as the notice at 

 the top of the drawer, that these types were presented to the British 

 Museum by the Entomological Society, are in the hand-writing, so 

 Mr. "Waterhouse tells me, of the late Mr. F. Smith. This gentleman, 

 not being a Lepidopterist, cannot be held accountable for the mistakes 

 which occur, in several instances, in the application of the names, and 

 the errors in the spelling are probably due to illegibility in the original 

 labels which Mr. Smith copied : e. g., we find frillatana for frutetana, 

 affractana for effractana. 



Now, above the ticket marked splendidulana are two insects, each 

 with the smaller brown label in Haworth's own writing. The left- 

 hand one is marked strobilana, and is what we now are accustomed to 

 call splendidulana ; the other is named fraternana, and is an unmis- 

 takeable example of distinctana, Wilk., = proxiniana, H.-S. The 

 specimen is a $ , with the costal fold distinct, though in other respects 

 not in particularly good condition. Haworth himself, p. 449, Lep. 



