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friends, the Eev. C. E. Digby for various translations from German 

 works, and Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher for much valuable information, 

 and also for the loan of his very long and beautiful sets of these 

 insects ; these, together with my own less lengthy series selected in 

 most cases out of the larger numbers that I have bred, make up a 

 total of some 1500 specimens, and illustrate well the known range of 

 variation in each of the seven British species that belong to this more 

 puzzling portion of the genus Lita. 



The Kectory, Corfe Castle : 



February \Uh, 1894. 



SUPPLEMENTAET NOTE {cf. ante, pp. 82-3). 

 I can now corroborate Shield's statement (" Prac. Hints," p. 149) 

 that the larva of L. plantaginella {= " O. instahilella,'" I. c.) mines 

 the leaves. Last month, Mr. "W. H. B. Fletcher found on P. corono- 

 pus, in the I. of Wight, one young larva so engaged, and many empty 

 mined leaves, whilst in Purbeck I secured two very young larvgo mining 

 down leaves of this plant, and a few mines, two containing cast skins 

 only, the rest empty. The three larvae, the skins, and the mines, were 

 referable to plantaginella. It seems clear that the egg is sometimes, 

 perhaps always, laid on a leaf, that the larva mines down the leaf, and 

 sometimes part of another leaf or two, and then, while still quite 

 young, enters a rootstock. In nature it apparently neyer feeds up in 

 or on the leaves, and I have failed to induce it to do so in confinement. 

 The older leaves, when mined, die off and decay rapidly, thus escaping 

 notice.— E. E. B. : Mai/ I8th, 1894. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PEBICOMA FEOM 

 DELAGOA BAY. 



BY THE EEV. A. E. EATON, M.A., F.E.S. 



At page 28 of the present volume mention is made of an East 

 African Pericoma, allied to P. notabilis, Etn. In some respects it 

 approaches the P. advena, Etn., series of species, which with the 

 former are included in the 3rd Section of this genus, tabulated in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. (2nd series), vol. iv, p. 127. 



Pekicoma meridionalis, sp. nov. 

 ? . Disc of wing broadly ovate, pointed exactly at the end of the prsebrachial 

 nervure. Antennas, allowing for difference of sex, as in P. advena {cf. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., 2nd ser., vol. iv, p. 127, step 8), reaching in $ to only a little beyond the base 



