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[April, 



ASPIDIOTUS FALMM AND BIAS PIS TENTACULATUS, N.Spp. 

 {ante pp. 40 — 41). 



BY A. C. F. MORGAN, T.L.S. 

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Aspidiotus palmcB. Fig. 2 — Diaspis tentaculaius. 



[These copies of Mr. Morgan's figures were unavoidably omitted, 

 through the drawings having been mislaid. — Eds.]. 



GEAPHOLITSA GEMMIFEEANA, TR., HITHERTO UNRECOEDED 



AS BRITISH. 



BT W. H. B. FLETCHEB, M.A., F.E.S. 



On the 27th of May, and the 2nd of June, 1890, I had the 

 pleasure of taking in a Hampshire locality several males and a few 

 females of this species. The moths were flying, or could be stirred 

 up easily among the numerous species of Leguminosce growing on 

 the spot. 



In colour, Cr. gemmiferana resembles G. ccBcana, for which at first I mistook it. 

 Both fore- and hind-wings, however, are much more ample ; the female, indeed, has 

 a remartably square appearance when set out. The geminated markings on the 

 costa are well developed, and from one of them a lustrous leaden line is produced 

 towards the anal angle, bounding the ocelloid patch on its inner side, and meeting 

 beneath it a second line, which is broken in the middle, and which borders the outer 

 edge of the patch ; in the patch are four well-defined black spots or short streaks, 

 and more rarely two smaller spots above them ; there are also two similar spots 

 between the second leaden line and the hind margin. The female is much smaller 

 than the male, and has both fore- and hind- wings darker; it has also the basal 

 portion of the fore-wings conspicuously darker than that beyond the first transverse 

 leaden line. Alar, expanse of S , 16 5 mm. ; of $ , 12-5 mm. 



I believe that the honour of taking this species in England for 

 the first time belongs to the late Mr, Howard Yaughan, and that a 

 few specimens were sold in his collection in May, 1890. It would be 

 interesting to learn from the purchaser of Lot 138, or of an adjacent 

 one, if this were the casR or not. 



I had hoped to have been able to have furnished with this note a 



