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Eudorea ulmella (Dale), Mason, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxiii. p. 163 

 (woodcut). 



Eudorea conspicualis, Hodgn., Entom. xiv. p. 223 (Oct. 1881), 

 pi. i. figs. 8, 9 (Dec. 1881); Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii. p. 134 

 (Nov. 1881) ; Mason, E. M. M. xxiii. p. 163. 



Scoparia conspicualis, South, Syn. List, p. 17; Leech, Brit. 

 Pyral. p. 15, pi. xiv. fig. 7. 



" S. ulmella bears some affinity to S. dubitalis, chiefly by 

 reason of the 8-inark being dumb-bell shaped, and filled in with 

 ochreous, but its slender conformation precludes the possibility 

 of its being connected with that species. The characters of the 

 8-mark separate it from the mercurella group, and it is with 

 equal ease distinguished from the angustea group by the 

 character of the first line " (Knaggs). 



Introduced by Dr. Knaggs, March, 1867. 



Note. — Three examples of this species were taken by Mr. Dale 

 on a trunk of wych elm, at East Meon, July, J 844. Nothing 

 further seems to have been heard of the insect until a Scoparia 

 was turned up in some numbers in the North of England by 

 Mr. Hodgkinson, and subsequently by Mr. Prest and others. 

 The former gentleman considered the species new to science, and 

 described it under the name of conspicualis ; but Dr. Mason as 

 recently demonstrated that Hodgkinson's insect is identical with 

 ulmella, Dale. 



BOTYM. 



Mecyna polygonalis, Hiibn. (PI. III. fig. 7.) 



BRIT. EEF. : — 



Margaritia diversalis (Hiibn.), Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 

 p. 47 (1834); Wood, Index (Westw. Ed.), p. 124, pi. 28, fig. 



807. 

 Mecyna polygonalis, Newman, Entom. v. p. 32^ JDoubleday, 

 op. cit. p. 76 ; Haggar, Entom. viii. p. 300 ; Weston, 

 Entom. x. p. 92 ; Tugwell, op. cit. p. 25'5 ; Doubl. List, 

 p. 18; South, Syn. List, p. 18; Leech, Brit. Pyral, p. 32, 

 pi. iv. fig. 3. 

 Expanse 15 — 18 lines. Fore wings : basal half and outer fourth dark brown 

 or blackish, the space between grey-brown or whitish grey ; orbicular dot-like, 

 reniform well-defined, both black ; first line oblique and wavy, the basal area 

 within this line is sometimes paler ; second line serrated, elbowed below 

 costa, approximating to first line on inner margin. Hind wings yellow, 

 broadly bordered with black. 



The above description is drawn from specimens from Lebanon, 

 for which I am indebted to Mr. Leech. 



Ab. diversalis. " Head, thorax, and anterior wings yellowish 

 brown, the latter with two obscure waved streaks, with two dusky 

 spots between, one small, the other larger and reniform ; on 

 the extreme hinder margin is a row of minute black dots , cilia 

 yellowish brown : posterior wings dull orange-yellow, with an 



