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in the larva state in August, by Mr. Fletcher, on the Brighton coast- 

 line. Brei examples lately received from Major E. Hering, of Stettin, 

 to whom I am greatly indebted, are identical with Nos. 3, 4, 8, 9, and 

 10 in the Douglas series, and with those reared by Mr. Fletcher. The 

 Zeller collection contains a few examples of this insect, labelled : — 

 '' Salicornella, Stg. Salzig See, lit., 11/61 ;" five being dated "29.5.59," 

 and the rest, " 14.5.62," and these, Major Hering tells me, are the very 

 ones alluded to in his paper on " Lita salicornics, n. spec.,^^ in Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit., L, pp. 302—5 (1889), as having been taken at the Salt 

 Lake, at Erdeborn, near Eisleben, and sent to Professor Zeller by 

 the late brother of his friend, Herr Gr. Stange (" Stg.," = " Stange," 

 E. Hering). Full particulars about this species will be given below. 



{d) GelecTiia {Litd) ocellatella was first described and named by 

 Mr. Staintou in Ent. Ann., 1859, pp. 151—2, from specimens bred 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., XIX, p. 252) by Mr. Thomas Boyd from larvae found 

 feeding, in May, in flower-heads of Beta maritima at the Lizard, in 

 Cornwall. And although Mr. Stainton in later years lost faith in his 

 ocellatella, and finally sunk the name as a synonym of ^^ instabilella " 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., I. c), yet the characteristics given in the original 

 description and diagnosis prove beyond a doubt that the Lita which 

 he described as ocellatella was the pretty " ocellated " insect, "dusted 

 with ochreous," of which the only known food-plant is Beta maritima. 

 The name must, therefore, be retained for this species,* of which I 

 have seen in Mr. Wollaston's collection one of the examples taken by 

 him at Porto Santo (E. A., 1859, pp. 151—2). Through the kindness 

 of Mr. W. C. Boyd, I have examined some fine specimens of "ocella- 

 tella " out of Mr. T. Boyd's collection ; presumably they were either 

 the very moths, or bred from the same batch of larvae as those from 

 which Mr. Stainton took his description, and all are true ocellatella. 

 Mr. Douglas's series of " ocellatella " consists solely and entirely of 

 this species. 



In Mr. Stainton's cabinet, the series of " instahilella, Dougl." is 

 composed in accordance with the views expressed in Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 XIX, pp. 251 — 3, and, with its overflows into the spaces for L. 

 Strelitziella and B. leucatella, includes : — 



Two L. ocellatella, labelled, " a. 1., Scilly, Jenkinson, 30.6.78." Four L. ocel- 

 latella, labelled, " e. 1., 5 — i, 7- Shoots and leaves, Beta maritima. C. Gr. Barrett. 



* In the Stainton continental collection are seven examples of a,Lita, standing as "ocellatella, 

 Stt.," and labelled " Golf Juan. Constant. 8.82," and Lord Walsinghf.m, in 1887, received 

 sjjecimens of the same from M. Constant, from Canne-s, with the information that it had been 

 identified by Mr. Stainton as " ocellatella." It is, however, very distinct from oceltaiella, but is 

 nearly allied to instalAUlla, from which it may be readily separated by its decidedly smaller size 

 m'" — 6'" as against G!/" — 7'"), by the much more ochreous colour of the fcre-wings, and by the 

 fascia, when present, being more indistinct. 



