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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



this species canie to light in the neighbourhood of Marlborough, 

 Wilts. There is no other record of the occurrence of the insect 

 in Britain. 



HOMCEOSOMA NIMBELLA, ZelL, Var. SAXICOLA. 

 BEIT. KEF. : — 



Homoeosoma saxicola, Vaughan, Ent. Mo. Mag. vii. p. 132 ; White, 

 I. c. p. 231, op. cit. viii. p. 68 ; Knaggs, Ent. Ann. 1871, 

 p. 92; Gregson, Entom. v. p. 396; Doubl. List, Suppl. p. 2; 

 South, Syn. List, p. 20 ; Bagonot, E. M. M. xxii. p. 26 ; 

 Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 91, pi. x. fig. 13. 



"Expanse, 7 — 8 lines. . . . Fore wings grey, with a fuscous 

 tint. The costal stripe bifurcates about the inner third into two 

 other stripes of unequal size, the larger of which is continued 

 along the costa until within a short distance of the apex, and the 

 lesser is continued as a streak to beyond the middle of the wing. 

 There are two or three small black dots situated about the 

 junction of the inner and middle third, and two or three other 

 small dots beyond the middle of the wing. . . . Hind wings 

 shining grey; cilia paler." — (Vaughan.) 



M. Bagonot says that none of the British nimbella he has 

 seen are quite like continental specimens, and adds, " Saxicola is 

 generally larger ; the fore wings are more distinctly white on the 

 costa, and the rest of the wing is of a pure ochre, not at all 

 powdered with black scales as in the type of nimbella. The 

 name of saxicola should be retained to distinguish the English 

 variety of nimbella." 



Introduced by Mr. Vaughan, November, 1870. 



Note. — The earliest known examples of this insect were bred 

 in 1867, from larvae found in flower-heads of chamomile in the 

 Isle of Man, September, 1866. In 1870 Dr. BuchunanJWhite 

 found larvae common in the flower-seeds of several species of 

 Compositse, on the shores of the Solway Firth. He says that 

 the larva, when full grown, spins a cocoon, but does not assume 

 the pupa state until the spring. The insect has also been ob- 

 tained at Clifton, Dover, and Folkestone. 



HOMCEOSOMA CEETACELLA, RdSsUr. 



BRIT. KEF. : 



Homoeosoma senecionis, Vaughan and Buckler, Ent. Mo. Mag. 



vii. p. 13J ; Knaggs, Ent. Ann. 1871, p. 91, pi. i. fig. 2; 



Porritt, Entom. xix. p. 211; Doubl. List, Suppl. p. 2; 



South, Syn. List, v. 20 ; (H. cretacella, Boss.), Bagonot, 



E. M. M. xxii. p. 26 ; Leech, Brit. Pyral. p. 93, pi. xi. fig. 2. 

 " Expanse, 8 — 9 lines. Fore wings : ground colour shining 

 greyish white, the inner half being suffused with a warm fuscous 

 tint. There are no indications of a first line. About the middle 

 of the wing are two, and in some cases three, dark dashes. At 

 about the junction of the middle with the outer third are two 



