86 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
describes the egg as pale green, soon changing to dark green. Larva 
slender, the same form as in the related species, but smaller, green, 
more or less ‘‘scherbenfarbig”’ tinged, or violet-green, or even inclining 
to brown-red. Dorsal line fine, blackish, swells in first quarter and 
last third of the middle segments so as to form spots. Subdorsal 
scarcely visible; in it,on each segment, two black tubercles with hairs. 
On the flesh-coloured sides runs an irregular dark longitudinal stripe, 
with a finer one above it. Spiracles appear as dark rings. On each 
side of them stand two equal-sized tubercles with hairs, the tubercle 
towards the head is higher, stands nearer to the dorsal line, and is 
darker. Belly reddish, in its centre a well-developed blackish stripe, 
swelling in the middle of each segment, and with two paler, irregular 
ones on either side thereof. Head dark speckled. 
The specimens of P. aquata in my collection (six only) are all from 
north Germany, five being labelled Pomerania. In our National col- 
lection, there are representatives from southern France, Burgundy, 
Pomerania, Garz-on-the-Oder, Frankfort (? which), Wiesbaden, &c. 
To judge from Staudinger’s trade-lists, it must be almost as common 
a species on the continent as vitalbata, but Aurivillius only gives one 
record for Scandinavia, namely Scania, on the authority of Wallengren. 
It will be interesting to learn whether, as our Editor suggests, other 
specimens are lying undetected in our British collections. 
Note on Psychidea graecella, Milliere. 
By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 
Milliére in his Iconographie, ii., p. 252, pl. 77, figs. 9-10, described 
and figured a Psychid species as graecella in the following terms : 
Fumea graecella, sp. noy. Envergure: 0.014m.-0-015m. Of the size of the 
smallest examples of EH. pulla which this species would resemble if the superior 
wings were rounded at the apex and on the outer margin. This character alone, 
without the less important ones, will always prevent this insect being confounded 
with HE. pulla. F. graecella is of a sooty black, dull and hairy; the upper 
wings are somewhat elongated, wide at the outer border, the apex pronounced, with 
the external edge cut obliquely. The lower wings are well developed, wide, and 
rounded. ‘The fringes of all the wings are very long and of a still more pronounced 
black than the tint of the wings. The antenne are of normal length with numerous 
fine pectinations ; they are, as also the head and thorax, of a deep black. The abdo 
men is slender and covered with black silky hairs of no great length; it is very 
faintly tinted with yellowish at the tip; this is more marked beneath. The case is 
covered with small cylindrical and agglomerated straws. The case, somewhat 
bulging centrally, is similar to that of comitella, Brd., or of crassiorella, Gn. Ihave 
under examination many specimens, identical with each other, of this new Fumea, 
which have been sent to me by Staudinger with the simple annotation : ‘‘ Species 
nova, de la Grece”’ (Milliére). 
Milliére also notes that at the end of April, 1866, he found on the 
east slopes of the Hstérel many cases fixed to the rocks, and that less 
than three weeks afterwards many males of I’. intermediella emerged, 
and amongst them two specimens which were referable to I’. graecella. 
Whether Milliére was right or wrong in referring the south France 
species to graecella, we are scarcely in a position to judge, as we have 
seen none of Milliére’s specimens, but it would appear that, although 
he originally described the imago from specimens from Greece, he 
described the case from his own south France material that he referred 
to this species, for Staudinger writes (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vii., p. 
115) : ‘* Fumea graecella, pulla yar.—My friend Milliére is the author 
