1893.1 ■ 203 



I have met with specimens which I could not separate as belonging 

 to any distinct species among patches of Linaria, as well as at a 

 distance from any Linaria, but whenever I have found it among 

 Linaria, Plantago has always been present in some abundance. I 

 should add that in every year I am able to meet with one or two 

 straggling specimens, although it never occurs in abundance except in 

 such freshly enclosed places as I have mentioned — the only exception 

 to this rule was one occasion on which I took about twenty specimens 

 of the first brood on the allotments at Brandon, where Linaria cer- 

 tainly predominates. 



The following list of references may be useful, as the species, 

 although described in 1869, was omitted from Staudinger and Wocke's 

 Catalogue : — 



881 (bis) — DEGEEYAIirA, McL. 



Eupaecilia degreyana McL. Ent. Ann. 1869. 91—92 1 ; Brt. Ent. Mo. Mag. V. 

 245. (1869) 2 : yn. 158—9. (1870) 3 : Tr. Nfk. & Norw. Nat. Soc. I. Sppl. 61. 

 (1874) 4 : Ent. Mo. Mag. XL 195. (1875) 5 : in Mason's Hist. Norfolk. App. xxxvi 

 (1884)6: Tr. Nfk. & Norw. Nat. Soc. III. 698. (1884)7; Wrn. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. XXIV. 134. (1887) « ; Brt. Tr. Nfk. & Norw. Nat. Soc. IV. 700. (1889) 9. 



Larva — in sem. Linaria vulgaris 5 8, Plantago laneeolata (Wlsm), VII (Wism), 

 VIII 8, IX 8. 



Imago— Y 3, VI 3, VII 3, VIII 3, IX 8. 



Rah. — England — Wicken Fen l, Thetford l, Norwich 3, Merton *, Brandon *, 

 Croston 7, Denton 9. 



Merton Hall : August, 1893. 



A CONJECTURE AS TO THE OEIG-IN OF THE NAME EUPCECILIA 

 ANTHEMIDANA, Curtis. 



BY JOHN HARTLEY DURRANT, F.E.S., Memb. Soc. Ent. de France. 



Curtis, Pr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (N. S.), Ill, 43—4 (1855), states 

 that he collected the flower-heads of Anthemis cotula at Eyde, Isle of 

 Wight, on the 10th of August (pi"esumably L855), and from these he 

 bred several insects belonging to different Orders. One of his notes 

 runs as follows : — " On the 22ad of September from the same heads I 

 found hatched in the box Gochylis suiroseana, Haw. 1." 



Wilkinson, Br. Tortr., 309 — 10 (1859), under the heading 

 " LJujpoecilia anthemidana, Curtis," writes — " An uncommon species ; 

 first noticed by Mr. John Curtis, who bred it from larvae feeding in 

 the flower-heads of Anthemis cotula. It is smaller than Eup. nana, hut 

 in colours and markings more resembles Eup. suhroseana.''^ 



