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[I am able to supplement Mr. Mcyrick's note, with the following translated 

 extracts from Professor Zeller's letters, which were written whilst the printing of 

 his "Crambiden " treatise was in progress : — 



Mescritz, 11th April, 1863. — The third half-sheet of my Crambiden is printed. 

 Meseritz, 1st May, 18fi3. — Of my Crambiden, three sheets ai'e now printed ; as the 



printer says it will make about 8 sheets, it will be July before it is finished. 

 Meseritz, 21st June, 1863. — Nest week the printing of my Crambiden will be finished, 



I am now busy with the Index and list of Errata. 

 Meseritz, 21st July, 1863. — Herewith you will receive some separate copies of my 



Crambiden. The reason for the date of publication being written is that the 



year appears on the title of the " Schulnaehricht," which remains here. 



H. T. Stainton : February 26th, 1890.] 



Bryotropha oh.icurella, Ilein., a British species. — A good many years ago Prof. 

 Zeller picked out from among a lot of insects which I sent him a Geleehia, which he 

 told me agreed with obscnrella, llein. This being my only specimen, and its locality 

 doubtful, it remained unrecorded. More recently, Mr. Sang sent me specimens, not 

 so dark in colour, taken by himself in the Darlington district, which have been 

 recognised by Mr. Warren, from Heinemann's description, as the same species. In 

 addition to these, I have now two specimens, sent by Mr. Hodgkinson, and taken by 

 him in the Windermere district, which are clearly like the original specimen picked 

 out by Zeller. We may now, therefore, safely include this — most suitably named — 

 species in the British fauna. 



Heinemann describes it : " Anterior-wings dark brown-grey, with two black 

 oblique spots before the middle, and two more spots, one near the base, and the 

 other at the transverse nervure. The hind-wings posteriorly concave, with a very 

 narrow apex. Head yellow-gi-ey, palpi externally dusted with brown. Size, 5^ lines." 



Another specimen, with the anterior-wings similar, only without a hinder fascia 

 (which, however, he did not mention in the first) " only round the spots somewhat 

 indistinctly lighter." These descriptions point evidently to the lighter and darker 

 forms which I have mentioned. It is a very obscure species, near to senectella, 

 but with longer wings, and varying to very much darker than that species. — C. U. 

 Barrett, Somerset House : January l-ith, 1890. 



Doryphora eloiigella, Ilein., a British species. — Some years ago, while at Pem- 

 broke, I swept about a dozen specimens of an obscure looking Geleehia off clover at 

 the quarries. They were evidently allied to lutulentella, but did not agree altogether 

 with that species, and remained unnamed in my collection until recently, when 

 Mr. Warren recognised them as elongella, Hcin., and having now seen Heii^emann's 

 description, I am convinced that he is right. 



Heinemann describes it : " Anterior-wings brown-grey, with indistinct, dark, 

 longitudinal streaks in the fold, the middle cell, and under the costa, a dark spot on 

 the transverse nervure, and a whitish costal spot beyond the middle. Hind-wings 

 paler. The abdomen above pale yellow." He places it next to lucidella, and very 

 justly remarks on its similarity in the shape of the wings, and in the neuration to 

 that species, from which it differs in the absence of yellowish mixture in the fore- 



