50 [March, 



nerve cord fairly visible when the leaf is turned over ; head oifulgens 

 pale brovs^n, cephalic ganglia and ventral cord invisible. Both insects 

 are double brooded. Their cocoons are woolly ; that of Tityrella is 

 white in colour, that oifulgens brownish. 



{To he concluded.) 



MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA FROM NOEFOLK & SCOTLAND: INCLUDING 

 AN ADDITION TO THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., P.R.S., &c. 



I received lately from Mr. E. A. Atmore, of King's Lynn, a box 

 of interesting specimens taken by him in that neighbourhood, which 

 included Tinea nigripunctella, Hw., a species of rare occurrence, for- 

 merly taken near Bristol.* T have recognised it among the late Mr. 

 T. y. Wollaston's captures in Madeira ; this is new to the Norfolk 

 list. A specimen of a Sericoris agrees absolutely with examples of 

 Sericoris palustrana, 7t., in the Zeller collection, as also with a specimen 

 received from Dr. Staudinger under this name. Zeller originally 

 described the species (Isis, 1846, p. 2'SO—not p. 630, as quoted in 

 Staudinger's Catalogue, No. 972) as palustrana, Lienig. The MS. 

 name given by Madame Lienig seems to indicate that her species was 

 in some way connected with marshes, while Zeller says that it is taken 

 in fir woods on high ground, and subsequent authors have followed 

 him in identifying a species taken among firs as /(aZMS^rawa. Stainton, 

 Wilkinson, Curtis and others have mentioned this species as occurring 

 among pines in Scotland and the North of England, and I can find 

 no mention of it as a marsh insect. The Lynn specimen (which if 

 rightly identified is an addition to our Norfolk list) throws no light 

 upon the subject ; it was taken, as I am informed by Mr. Atmore, " by 

 beating a fir tree on the verge of a marsh." It does not appear to 

 agree precisely with Scotch specimens in my collection, but is cer- 

 tainly distinct from the allied form which stands in our cabinets 

 under the name of micana, Hb. 



I have next to notice a long series of specimens of an Argyresthia 

 taken among larches, which can only be compared with Argyresthia 

 illuminatella, 7i. (Isis, 1839, p. 205), from typical examples of which 

 they differ in the slightly more elongate and acuminate apex of 

 the fore-wings. Three examples in my own collection from Forres, 



* More than thirty years ago I found several examples of Tinea nigripunctella in the "retreat" 

 of a house at Folkestone at which I was lodging. I have an idea that many localities other than 

 Bristol, Folkestone, and King's Lynn can be named.— R. McLachlan. 



