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collected by Salvage (for the possession of which I am indebted 

 to Mr. J. H. Leech), do not exhibit this peculiarity. I have no 

 hesitation in adding this species to the British lists on the strength of 

 the Scotch specimens, but would urge Mr. Atmore to make further 

 search, in the hope that he may find the larva feeding on larch, in 

 which case its separation from the continental illuminatella would, I 

 think, be fully justified. Since Hartmann (Mitth. Miinch. Ent, Ver., 

 IV, 7, 1880) mentions Larix as one of its food-plants, it may be that 

 the two forms are included under one name on the continent. Col- 

 lectors should examine their series of Ocnerostoma piniariella, and if 

 they find some rather yellowish specimens with distinctly ochreous 

 heads and longer palpi, they may recognise Argyresthia illuminatella. 



I am quite unable to distinguish two specimens of a Gelechia in 

 the same collection from examples of Xystophora servella, Z., in the 

 Zeller collection (Isis, 183S, p. 201 ; 1846, p. 289). I mention it in 

 the hope that the attention of collectors will be called to the matter, 

 and that they may be able to verify the occurrence of this hitherto 

 unrecorded species in England. It is of a uniform purplish-brown 

 colour, with a few pale specklings around the apex and apical margin, 

 and a single obscure dark spot at the end of the cell, the antennsB 

 appear to have a series of three pale spots on their outer third, the 

 outer one of which is a little before the apex ; the cilia are somewhat 

 paler than the wings, especially about the anal angle, and the hind- 

 wings are shining slaty-grey with pale cilia tending to brownish- 

 ochreous, the abdomen inclining to brownish-ochreous. Legs pale, 

 apparently unspotted. Exp. al., 14 mm. It is slightly larger than 

 anfJiylNdella, Hb., and somewhat resembles it in appearance, although 

 generically distinct. Heinemann originally gave the name Dory- 

 phora to that section of the old genus Gelechia to which the species 

 belongs, but recognising that the name was pre-occupied for a 

 genus of Coleoptera [vide Hein., Schm. Deutsch. Tin. Tabelle der 

 Gattungen, p. 6 (1877) ; Snell, Vlind. Ned., 684-5 (1882) ; Drnt., 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Er., 1889, p. ccxxiv], he replaced it by Xystophora. 

 This correction being made in the posthumous part of Heiuemann's 

 work, was subsequent to the publication of Staudinger's Catalogue, 

 and was overlooked by South when compiling his list. 



While I am recording additions to the Norfolk list, I may here 

 mention Tinagma hetulce, Stn., and (Ecophora lamhdella, Don. The 

 description of the former at once enabled me to recognise a mine 

 found in a birch leaf here, obviously that of a Tinagma, which had 

 greatly puzzled me, as I had been unable to breed the insect. I noticed 



