112 Mr. J. Curtis on some nondescript or imperfectly 



9. Genus 957, 12. Carpocapsa nigricana, Haw. Our speci- 

 mens do not agree with the Fabrician description, but Haworth's 

 insect seems to be the Grapholitha nebritana of Treitschke, and is 

 the " Pisana " of Guene, according to examples from Paris, which 

 Mr. Doubleday obligingly showed me. This is a most interest- 

 ing species, as it is the parent of the maggots in peas, which we 

 have so long endeavoured to rear, but unsuccessfully. 



10. 25. C. Queketana, Dale, was first discovered I believe on 

 a bank going to Burkham on the south side of the river the end 

 of April 1842. I fear this name will fall, as Doubleday considers 

 it the T. fraciifasciana of Haworth, and the Eriopsila caricana 

 of the continent. 



11. Genus 959, 1. Cnephasia bellana, Curt. B. E. pi. 100. Im- 

 mediately after a most successful entomological tour made in 

 Scotland by Mr. Dale and myself, during the summer of 1825, 

 I published this beautiful species, being one of the novelties I 

 detected ascending Arthur's Seat. Nine years after it was de- 

 scribed by Stephens as the T. Penziana ?; T. octomaculana, Haw., 

 being given as a variety. Wood of course followed in the same 

 wake, and has consequently figured my new species as 'Penziana,' 

 and omitted to delineate ' octomaculana,' which is distinct enough 

 from C. bellana, but considerably like, if not identical with, Buh- 

 ner' s Penziana, pi. 14. fig. 85. 



Here is one amongst hundreds of instances in which names 

 have been changed and misapplied from either ignorance or ca- 

 price to the destruction of science, creating a mass of confusion, 

 which it is to be hoped Mr. Henry Doubleday and Mr. Stainton 

 will eventually set right. 



12. 2. C. octomaculana, Haw. MSS., expands from 10 to 11 

 lines : it is pale fuscous : superior wings white or grayish-white 

 with two irregular brown bands ; the first near the base angu- 

 lated, edged with black and not reaching the inner margin, se- 

 cond crossing the middle obliquely, very irregular, dotted with 

 black, forming a kind of triangle on the costa united to a rhom- 

 boidal spot on the disc and detached from a smaller one on the 

 inner margin ; towards the apex is a spot leaving a pale patch on 

 the costa, and a smaller one nearer the tip ; towards the pos- 

 terior margin are two or three irregular oblique lines of black 

 dots. 



Of this rare species, which has never been described, I caught 

 two the 19th July, 1825, which flew out of a stonewall near the 

 Inn at the base of Ben Lawes. 



13. 3. C. wetaceana, Curt. It expands 10 lines, and is chalk- 

 white : superior wings with very faint indications of spots and 

 bands freckled with gray : inferior wings pale fuscous. I never 



