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saying that it is certa,m]j ffrandipennis, Haw., ? , and must no longer pose as "A 

 Butalis new to Britain." I have little doubt that Mr. Stainton was led to return it 

 as perhaps dissimilella, H.-S., and Prof. Zeller (in whose native country grandipennis 

 does not seem to occur) to suggest that it might be undescribed, by the presence of 

 a longitudinal streak of white scales down the centre of the fore-wing : it is narrow 

 at the base, but gradually widens out until towards the hind-margin, the white scales 

 no longer form a streak, but are scattered over the disc. This form of grandipennis 

 appears to be unknown to most Lepidopterists, but is well illustrated by some of the 

 fifty females in my series, in a few of which the white streak is quite as prominent 

 as in the moth under notice. The males occasionally, though very much less 

 frequently, show indications of a similar streak, but I have never yet met with or 

 seen any in which it is well pronounced. The Newbury specimen is rather small, 

 though if as flatly set, it would be visibly larger than my smallest specimens, and is 

 exactly the same colour as the somewhat faded individuals that I took about ten 

 years ago; it was netted "on a heath," which is, in my experience, quite the most 

 likely place for grandipennis, if either of its food-plants {Ulex europaus and Z7. 

 nanus) occurs there. The published date of capture (Ent. Mo. Mag., I. c.) is 

 " June 29th, 1875," but this should be " June 28th, 1874," as is rightly given on the 

 MS. label on the pin. Mr. Meyrick, who was previously unacquainted with the 

 white streaked form of the insect, has now no doubt that my determination is 

 correct. — Id. : March bth, 1894. 



Tinea pallescentella in a wasp's nest. — In the Grosvenor Museum at Chester, 

 among other cases illustrative of life histories, is one, set up by Mr, E. Newstead, 

 Curator, which, along with a nest of Vespa germanica, found at Mold, North Wales, 

 shows also the insects — Dipterous, Lepidopterous, and others — which were reared 

 from the nest by Mr. Newstead, and were presumably parasitic in it. 



Among these I was greatly interested to find several specimens of Tinea 

 pallescentella, and to hear that at least a dozen had been reared from this nest, some 

 of them showing the dark markings, others almost plain. It was not, however, 

 clearly established that tlie Tinea is parasitic in the nest of the wasp, in its natural 

 state, out of doors. This nest had been brought home in the autumn of 1890, and 

 the moths were reared in February, 1891, so that great probability exists that eggs 

 were laid in the nest, indoors, by a moth of the usual late autumn brood. With 

 the Tinea, was (of course) one Endrosis fenestrella. — Chas. Gr. Baerett, Nunhead : 

 March, 1894. 



Crambus ericellus in Cumberland. — When at Carlisle a few weeks ago, I was 

 asked to examine a few unnamed moths by Mr. George Dawson of that town. 

 Among them I was particularly interested to find several undoubted specimens of 

 Crambus ericellus in excellent condition. Having no previous knowledge of the 

 occurrence of this Crambus south of the border, I made particular enquiry, and 

 found that the specimens had been taken by Mr. Dawson himself; and that he had 

 found them always at a great elevation, upon two or three of the Cumberland 

 mountains, but most commonly upon Great Gable, where he might have secui-ed 

 many specimens had he known what it was. 



