1889.] 181 



The ground-colour of fore-wings of this specimen is pale grey, with a very faint 

 yellowish gloss, and is clouded with dark grey along the costa, which also is pretty 

 regularly spotted with blackish. Both transverse lines are indistinct, blackish edged 

 with pale, the first much interrupted and angulated, the second indented into 

 crescents. The orbicular stigma is large, roundish, and whitish, the renal also large, 

 dark grey, with a perpendicular pale shade down its middle, the claviform very broad, 

 almost lunate, grey, all three edged with black. From the whitish orbicular stigma a 

 pale oblique band, to near the anal angle, meets another broad, pale band from the apex 

 of the wing. Hind-margin much clouded with dark grey, subterminal line whitish, 

 interrupted, indented, and with a conspicuous W in the middle. At the base of the 

 wing are several curved blackish lines between the nervures, cilia pale grey, spotted 

 with darker. Hind-wings whitish to beyond the middle, with a broad, ill-defined, 

 dark grey band along the margin, cilia white, with a line of pale grey dots or flecks, 

 Head, antennae, thorax and abdomen, grey-brown. 



It looks something like a small pale dentina, with which species 

 Major Partridge tells me that he at first placed it, but, from the 

 distinct, central, pale, oblique band, bears also some resemblance to 

 contigua. 



I hear, with much regret, that Major Partridge is leaving Portland 

 with his regiment. His opportunities for working that finely situated, 

 but difficult and rather dangerous locality, have been exceptional, and 

 the results quite remarkable. 



King's Lynn, Norfolk : 



December 10th, 1888. 



ON THE SUPPOSED NEW BRITISH TORTRIX— RETINIA 

 POSTICANA, ZETT. 



BY C. G. BABKETT. F.E.S. 



I find that it will be necessary for me to give reasons for my 

 belief that this form, formerly supposed to be B. duplana, Hb., is 

 merely small, dark turionella, L. 



The first British specimen of the so-called duplana which I had an 

 opportunity of examining was sent to me for that purpose fifteen or 

 sixteen years ago by my lamented friend, Mr. Doubleday. To the 

 best of my recollection, it was as large as ordinary turionella, but 

 decidedly browner in colour — a ? , — very curious in appearance, and 

 different from all that I have since seen ; doubtless, it may still be seen 

 in the Bethnal Green Museum. Subsequently, at long intervals, I 

 have, thanks to the kindness of friends, examined, I think, the majority 

 of the other old captures of this insect, and they all agree very well 

 with those taken last year by my old friend, Mr. Albert Jones, and 

 those secured this year (1888) by Mr. Salvage. Of these last I have, 



