62 [August, 



A NEW SPECIES OF NEPTICULA BRED FROM BIRCH, FROM 

 HEREFORDSHIRE {N. WOOLHOPIELLA). 



BY H. T. STAINTOlSr, P.B.S, 



In August, 1886, Dr. J. H. Wood, of Tarrington, sent tne some 

 Nepticula-minea in birch leaves, whicli I was unable to determine. 

 Early in September he sent me a further supply of the same mines, 

 some being still tenanted by the larvse. Of the mines some had con- 

 siderable resemblance to those of N. suhhimaculella, but the mine 

 commenced with a small dark blotch, much like that of N. continuella. 

 The larva (as described by Dr. Wood) was very pale green. 



From the observations made by Dr. Wood, I learn that in habit 

 this larva showed a difference from the larva of N. argentipedella, the 

 latter being apparently a very sluggish feeder, seldom to be seen 

 eating, and usually hidden beneath the dark central portion of the 

 mine ; whereas, the larva of the unknown novelty fed up much more 

 quickly, and was always to be found with its head at the margin of 

 the mine, either actually eating, or just ready to eat. 



The larvae which Dr. Wood so kindly sent me last September died 

 without forming their cocoons. Dr. Wood was more fortunate : he 

 supplied some of his larvae with earth, and kept them out of doors 

 during the winter, and from these he has succeeded in breeding four 

 specimens of the imago. 



These are smaller than arge7itipedella, with the apical half of the 

 wing blacker, the fascia bi'ighter (that is, more silvery), and rather 

 more oblique on its inner edge ; in argentipedella the fascia generally 

 expands a little towards the base on the inner margin of the wing, 

 which gives the inner edge of the fascia a rather concave appearance, 

 in the new birch-feeder the inner edge of the fascia has not this con- 

 cave appearance, it being nearly straight, though oblique. 



As this insect has been first detected in Herefordshire, in the parish 

 of Woolhope, I propose for it the name of Nepticula woolhopiella. 



Mountsfleld, Lewisham, S.E. : 

 July 1th, 1887. 



THREE NEW LONGICORN COLIJOPTEEA FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 

 BY H. W. BATES, F.E.S. 



The species hei'e described belong to the group Onocephalini, 

 Family Lamiidcd, The genus Stethopervia was established by M. 

 Lameere in the Annales Beiges for 1884, vol. xxviii, p. 93, on the 

 species S. Candezei and *S'. Satesi. 



