1887.] .59 



Treitschke, very unintentionally no doubt, helped a little to in- 

 crease the confusion. He was very probably unacquainted with the 

 insect now under consideration. He described a reliquana and gave as 

 synonyms Hiibner's permixtana, fig. 75, and the o'eliqi(,ana of Hiibner's 

 A'erzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge. 



Treitschke's insect was evidently something different from ours, 

 and from his notice of the larva was clearly the vine-feeding Tortrix 

 now known as hotrana^ yet Treitschke thought that Hiibner's fig. 75 

 represented a female of his species, whereas Hiibner's figure with the 

 two black triangular marks. on the inner margin of the anterior wings, 

 and with the white 'posterior wings, is manifestly the male of our well- 

 known permixtana. 



As in these days the permixtana of the Wiener Yerzeichniss, and 

 the permixtana figured by Hiibner 187, seem alike lost to science, 

 there seems no reason why Hiibner's name of reliquana should not be 

 dropped, and the name permixtana, given by him to his figure No. 75, 

 restored to that insect. 



It must, however, always be borne in mind that Lohesia reliquana 

 of Wilkinson's British Tortrices, p. 280, and Lohesia reliquana of 

 Stainton's Manual, II, 226, are identical with Lohesia permixtana 

 of Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue, p. 251, with GrapJiolitlia 

 {Lohesia) permixtana of Heinemann, p. 138, and with Lohesia 

 permixtana of Snellen's De Ylinders van Nederland, Micro-Lepid- 

 optera, p. 277. 



German Entomologists seem to have generally overlooked the 

 simple fact that reliquana was a synonym of Hiibner's creation for 

 his own permixtana, No. 75, and that, consequently, reliquana of 

 Hiihner has no separate existence from that insect ; the pretty moth 

 of which I am treating is therefore both the permixtana and the 

 reliquana of Hiibner. 



Now as to the habits of the species. Haworth, Lepidoptera 

 Britannica, p. 406, says only: "Habitat apud nos infrequens." He 

 mentions the black-tipped white hind-wings, and the black hind-wings, 

 suggesting that these may indicate the sexes, but he says nothing of 

 localities or times of appearance. 



Stephens, in his Illustrations, Haust. IV., p. 183, says : "Not very 

 uncommon, in June, in the woods of the metropolitan district, 

 frequenting open places and hedges ; found also in plenty in the New 

 Eorest, Devonshire, &c." 



Wilkinson, in his British Toi'trices, p. 280, says: "Not a very 

 common species ; slightly variable in size, but tolerably constant in 



