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having no more than a trace of the usual longitudinal white stripe 

 that I think it must be a hybrid between prat ellus and Jiortuellus. 



0. dumetellus, Hb. — Several fine specimens occurred at Elverum 

 in the first week of July, they are brighter than most of my conti- 

 nental specimens, with, perhaps, the exception of one or two examples 

 which I took at Chamounix. I notice a curious circumstance with this 

 insect : all my English specimens, from the New Forest and the south 

 of England, are much brighter and more golden in colour than any 

 continental ones, whilst some eight or nine Scotch examples from 

 Eannoch revert to the duller hue. 



C. Tiortuellus, Hb. — This was also abundant everywhere, some of 

 the ^ being unusually dark ; there are also one or two specimens 

 approaching the Lapland variety, montanellus, so closely that it is 

 scarcely possible to distinguish them. 



G. truncatellus, Zett. — Dr. Jordan had the good fortune to take 

 one of this fine species at Tuset on July 9th. It has no near ally 

 among our Cramhi ; the following description may, therefore, be 

 useful : — 



Gh:ound-colour greyish, with two oblique rust-brown stripes from the costa to 

 the inner margin, the posterior one dentated. The hind margin is broadly bor- 

 dered with rust-brown, and the costa is also browner than the inner margin. Fringes 

 brown, tessellated with white. Hind-wings darker grey. 



My Norway specimen is much darker and uniformly browner 

 than those I have from Lapland ; the two oblique stripes are also 

 somewhat obliterated. This Cramhus has, I believe, only been hitherto 

 recorded from Lapland, Finland, and Livonia. Herr A. Bang-Haas 

 tells me that Dr. Staudinger and he have never received it from 

 Norway, so that this is probably a new locality for it. 



0. falsellus, Schiff. — Ealeida ; end of August. 



C. myelins, Hb. — Ormein (Eomsdal) ; end of August. One speci- 

 men of this local and widely dispersed insect occurred. 



C.furcatellus, Zett. — This was taken rarely at Jerkin, during the 

 second week in July ; the specimens do not vary from the typical 

 form. 



O. culmellus, L. S. N.- — This was also abundant everywhere, and 

 is of the typical form. 



O. tristellus, S. Y. — The ordinary form occurred at Ealeida at the 

 end of August. 



C. perlellus, Sc. — Dr. Jordan took only one specimen at Christi- 

 ania, which is also of the ordinary silvery form. 



16, Clarendon Eoad, Edgbaston : 

 February 7th, 1888. 



