g [June, j 



The words " m.arginis postici," wliicli, as they stand, aeem un- i' 

 traiislatablo, probably induced Dr. AVocke in his Catalogue to consider | 

 Ifaworlh's insect a Diclirorampha ! ' 



I may remark that pygmcdana appears, at present, to be by no | 

 means an abundant species. During the last half of April I have been i 

 able to secure only three specimens myself, and the total number \ 

 taken does not exceed a dozen. Ratzeburg states that during cold 

 and rainy weather the moth will not 6y, but drops down to the ground, 

 if disturbed. The almost total absence of fine and sunshiny days 

 may, therefore, easily account for its scarcity. On the other hand, it 

 may be that the majority of the brood were over before the first 

 examples were discovered, and that those subsequently taken were 

 only stragglers. On the continent, March and April are given as the 

 lime iov pygmceana ; April and May for nhiegana. 



Merton Cottage, Cambridge : 

 May 4th, 1887. 



[As Haworth described his suhsequana in 1812, and Fischer's 

 ahiegnana (accurately described by Zeller in the Stettin. Entomolog. 

 Zeituug, ]849, p. 245) was first described by Duponchel in his Fourth 

 Supplementary volume, p. 409, under the name of ahiegana in 1842, 

 Haworth's name has priority by 30 years, and should be retained for 

 this species. 



It is rather singular, considering how few Tortrices occur in the 

 early months of the year, that two someAvhat similar species, both with 

 white, or nearly white, hind-wings, should occur in March and April. 

 — H. T. Stainton.] 



Balonota ohscnrana, Stph. (1834) versus ravulana, H.-S. (1849). — While lately 

 looking over the figures of the Tortrices in Wood's " Index Entomologieus," that of 

 obscurana, Stph., attracted my attention, as being wonderfully like ravulana, H.-S. I 

 have since had an oppoi'tunity of seeing, in the collection of the British Museum, 

 Stephens' own type of his obscurana, probably, and almost certainly the identical 

 specimen which Wood depicted. It is a very perfect and well-marked example, of 

 what we have been accustomed to call ravulana, H.-S. This name must, therefore, 

 now sink, as Stephens' obscurana has the priority by fifteen years. — Id. : May 9th, 

 1887. 



Ephestia Jiculella, Barrett, = desuetella, Walker. — In the British Museum 

 Catalogue (Suppl., p. 1719) Walker has described, under the name of Nephojoter^x 

 desuetella, an Ephestia from Australia which is certainly identical with E. ficulella, 

 Barrett. I have found the species (as well as E. elutella) common enough and 

 widely distributed in Australia. Of course Walker's description is unrecognisable. 



