246 (November, 



scription was studied with care in the endeavour to ascertain whether 

 Mr. McCorquodale's species was vastella or jacksoni, MS. On reading 

 " pale gilded ochraceous," and again "abdomen extending much beyond 

 the hind-wings," the language struck me as familiar, and the descrip- 

 tion of a mere accident of setting was obviously "Walkerian." A 

 reference to Walker's description of Tinea htcidella [British Museum 

 Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera, vol. XXVIII, p. 474 (1863)] 

 proved that the description given by Mr. McCorquodale is a copy 

 word for iDord oi 'WdiWev''^ original, but the punctuation has been 

 slightly varied ; the author should certainly have stated this, if only 

 to prevent unnecessary research. At the conclusion of his communi- 

 cation he remarks : — " I am indebted to Lord Walsingham, who kindly 

 gave me some very useful notes, he having himself written a few years 

 ago on the subject." The reference to my paper " On the Tortricidoe., 

 TineidcB and Pterophoridcs of South Africa " [Trans. Entomological 

 Society of London, 1881, pp. 238-42] was distinctly useful, for Mr. 

 Haliday's remarks on Dr. Fitzgibbon's observations were given in a 

 compact form, and from this paper was obtained the information given 

 to me by Lieut. -Col. the Hon. Wenham Coke and Mr. Roland Trimen 

 (not "Truman"). The use of the inverted commas are very mis- 

 leading, for the passages are not exact quotations but precis-work. 



With the exception of the figures and a few unimportant remarks 

 Mr. McCoi'quodale's note is not in any part original ; even the con- 

 clusion that "the question must, however, remain suh Judice" was 

 anticipated in 1881 by my remark " the question must be considered 

 to be ' sub judice.' " 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



30/A September, 1898. 



[Those who devote their time to compiling Indexes willingly give 

 references from their MSS., and they have a right to expect that the 

 information obtained by their help should be published in such a form 

 as will render it unnecessai'y for the Indexer to reduplicate his work 

 by analysing the paper to rediscover the origin of his own references. 

 When, at Lord Walsingham's request, I extracted from our MS. Index 

 of the Micro-Lejpidoptera the references, &c., to Tinea vastella, I ap- 

 parently omitted to state that Mr. Trimen exhibited on May 4th, 

 1881, at a Meeting of the Entomological Society of Loudon, specimens 

 of this species, " the larva of which had fed in an inkstand fabricated 

 from a hoof of the late Prince Imperial's horse, from which multitudes 

 of the insect appeared" [vide Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 XYIII, p. 20 (1881)].— Jno. Haetley Currant]. 



