characterized species of British Moths. 119 



amongst long grass in young plantations. I have taken it near 

 Glanville's Wootton, Dorset, the 18th May. 



Genus 1028. Telea, Step. 



44. 2. subfasciella, Step. 111. iv. 247. This I met with the 

 30th June at St. Martha's, near Guildford ; the 9th July on 

 Turk Mountain, near Killarney ; and the 11th August at 

 Mickleham. 



45. 8. Curtisella, Don. ; cainobitella, Hub. It is now believed 

 that the black T. obscurella of Hiibner and the T. piccepennis of 

 Ha worth are only dark varieties, but I have not seen any inter- 

 mediate ones. 



46. Genus 1030, 2. Ypsolophus, Persicellus, Haw., I find is 

 not a variety of his Y. bifasciatus, the T. sylvella of Hiibner ; but 

 a distinct species. 



Genus 1031. Cerostoma, Lat. } Curt. Brit. Ent. fol. 420. 



47. 4. C. Xylostella, Linn. I have a specimen expanding 

 1\ lines, with the stripe on the inner margin of the upper wings 

 nearly concolorous with the rest, but I believe it is only a variety 

 of this common species. 



48. 5. C. Dalella, Stain. Syst. Cat. p. 11. This species was 

 first given to me many years since by Sir C. Lyell, who took it 

 at Kinnordy, and the beginning of August 1825 I discovered it 

 amongst heath on the face of a rock in the Isle of Bute. As it 

 agreed pretty well with Hubner's fig. 164. pi. 24, I gave it as 

 his T. vittella in my • Guide/ 



Genus 1031 b . Acrolepia, Curt. Brit. Ent. fol. & pi. 679. 



This is a very remarkable group, so greatly resembling the 

 Tortricidte, that a careless observer, omitting to examine the palpi, 

 would at once include it in the wrong family. In 1838 this ge- 

 nus was established in my e Brit. Ent/ by dissection and elabo- 

 rate definitions, and as Zeller did not publish the group until 

 nearly two years after, his name and not mine must fall by the 

 law of priority, which Mr. Stainton very justly recognises to its 

 fullest extent. 



49. 1. A. autumnitella, Curt. B. E. ib. I should not hesitate 

 to adopt Mr. Stainton's opinion, that my species is the Tortrix 

 pygmceana of Haworth's ' Lep. Brit/ p. 439, if he did not give 

 4 lines as the expanse of the wings, for my examples measure 

 from 5^ to 5| lines. Wood's figure 1 136 of Eupoecilia pygmceana, 

 as he calls it, after Stephens, is apparently identical with my in- 

 sect, as well as DuponcheFs Hcemilis Lefebvriella (v. 11. p. 141. 

 pi. 290. f. 11). Since this genus was published in the l Brit. 

 Ent/ I have seen specimens of A. autumnitella, flying in the day- 



