112 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



in Tutt's "British Lepidoptera." The precise facts are as 

 follows. After the sale of his collection, the late John Sang 

 went to Burton-on-Trent to figure Coleoptera for Dr. Mason. 

 He resided there some time, then came back to Darlington and set 

 up house-keeping again. Here he commenced a new collection, 

 which was not very large when he died. Dr. Mason came down 

 to the funeral, and before his return home he purchased this 

 and took it to Burton-on-Trent with him. On examining it at 

 his leisure he found it contained five specimens of a Solenohia 

 (two ^'s and three $'s), which Sang had called triquetrella, 

 but which were really clathrella. Knowing I was engaged in 

 the preparation of this catalogue, Dr. Mason wrote me in 1899, 

 informing me of this discovery, that I might include the species 

 here. I am not able to give the exact locality where they were 

 taken, all of them probably as larvae, but there is no doubt they 

 were taken in Upper Teesdale, where Mr. Gardner also found 

 larvae which were possibly those of clathrella^ but which he un- 

 fortunately failed to rear. 



Triquet7'ella, to which Sang referred these specimens, is an 

 insect that has never occurred in Britain, though, owing to 

 errors of identification, it has been recorded by Doubleday and 

 others as British. Whilst I am writing, four out of Sang's five 

 clathrella are at Stevens' saleroom, where they will probably 

 be sold before this portion of the catalogue is printed.* The 

 fifth specimen, a $, has disappeared. It may have been 

 accidentally destroyed. Dr. Chapman mounted two $'s very 

 carefully for Dr. Mason, but he has no knowledge as to the fate 

 of the third $ specimen, which he never saw. There is no need 

 for me to point out the shortcomings of Tutt's account of the 

 matter. Dr. Mason was an exceedingly brief letter writer, and 



* These specimens are now in the possession of Mr. E. R. Bankes, of 

 Corfe Castle, who purchased them at the sale of Dr. Mason's collection. 

 He says of them, " Of the two ^'s, one is on a black pin, and the pinning 

 and setting are peculiarly characteristic of Sang's handiwork, while the 

 other is on a gilt pin, and does not show Sang's manipulation to such a 

 marked degree. The different colours of the pins obviously show, I should 

 say, that the two (?'s were bred or taken in different years, for after Sang 

 adopted black pins, I do not think he ever used any other colour." 



