116 Mr. J. Curtis on some nondescript or imperfectly 



consider that it is quite unnecessary to disturb a name by which 

 it was so well known, to admit one proposed by Guene, who in 

 a letter calls it delunella. It was no doubt negligent of Haworth 

 to transcribe Linnseus's characters of his Tinea Resinella, which 

 he did with ?s, but as there is no such Linnsean insect as Tinea 

 Resinea, no confusion can arise from retaining Haworth's and 

 Stephens's name, by which it is identified in all our catalogues 

 as well as by Wood's figure 1448, and an appropriate name it is, 

 as the moth is always found on the trunks of Coniferse. 



28. 13. E. angustea, Curt. B. E. fol. 170, expands 7 lines. 

 It is ashy-brown, the upper wings very narrow and gradually 

 tapering to the base, towards which is an oblique broadish pale 

 curved line, dark outside ; on the disc are a minute oval and the 

 usual Q spots, but indistinct ; and beyond them a very oblique 

 sinuose pale narrow line well defined, the inner margin brown ; 

 base of the cilia gray with a line of black dots : under-wings pale 

 yellowish-fuscous. 



Wood's figure 1450 is not my E. angustea, but merely a va- 

 riety of E. Mercurella. The only specimen I possess I caught 

 in a damp cave at Tunbridge Wells the end of Aug. 1819, where 

 I saw many more. 



29. 14. E. alpina, Dale's MS. It expands 9 lines and may 

 be only a large variety of the foregoing, but all the examples are 

 paler, with an additional black oval spot below the minute one 

 on the disc, and upon the under-wings is a pale transverse striga 

 nearly parallel with the margin. 



Mr. Dale's specimens were taken on Schichalion. 



Jbamily TiNEiDiE. 



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30. Genus 1008. Depressaria, Haw. ; Curt. Brit. Ent. fol. & 

 pi. 221. 



20. D. bipunctosa, Curt. Guide. It expands 11 lines and is 

 whitish-ochre, the spaces between the marginal nervures of the 

 upper wings are slightly fuscous, and on the disc of each are two 

 distinct black dots, forming a longitudinal curved line, with an- 

 other at the base, and the apex of the costa and posterior margin 

 bear ten black spots : the under-wings are pale fuscous : antenna? 

 and legs fuscous. 



This is not a variety of Hubner's T. Verbascella, as I once 

 suspected, and it certainly is not of any species I possess. It is 

 the form of D. liturella, W. V., but is smaller, and at once di- 

 stinguished by the colour of the legs, the uniform tint of the 

 upper wings, with the dotted costa and darker under-wings. The 

 only specimen I have seen was taken in the New Eorest by Sir 

 Charles Lyell about twenty years since. 



