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and his name must be adopted, as it was published eleven 

 years before Haworth's. 



Peiithina Grevilleana is a very distinct species, and I am 

 much surprised that Mr. Wilkinson considered it to be a 

 variety of Prselongana, Gn. 



Lozotdcnia latiorana^ H.-Schaef. — This I suppose should 

 be Latiorana of Wilkinson, as Herrich-SchaefFei's insect is a 

 Catoptria synonymous with ^Emulana. 



Lozotcenia piceana, Linn. — The only reputed British spe- 

 cimen of this species was a female in the late Mr. Bentley's 

 collection, but I believe its native origin was doubtful. 

 I suppose Dr. Knaggs has given this name in error for the 

 Xylosteana of Linneus, one of our commonest Tortrices, and 

 which differs very much from Piceana in form, colour and 

 markings. 



In the genus Poedisca one of the commonest species is 

 omitted. Sordidana of Hiibner and Stabilana of Stephens 

 are identical. The larva of this species feeds upon alder. 



The larva of Solandriana feeds «pon birch. It is rather dif- 

 ficult to say what name ought to be adopted for the omitted 

 species ; one of the varieties may be the Piceana of Haworth 

 but this name, having been previously employed, is objec- 

 tionable. Dr. Staudinger adopts Sciurana of H.-Schieffer; 

 his figure represents the variety with an ochreous streak in 

 the centre of the superior wings. Melaleucana of Duponchel 

 is another variety identical with the Semifuscana of Haworth's 

 MSS. and of Stephens's 'Illustrations,' published in 1834. 

 I have adopted this name in my Catalogue, and I think 

 correctly. It is a very common species and extremely 

 variable. The larva feeds upon sallow. 



Retinia Buoliana, S. V. — Dr. Knaggs gives my Pinicolana 

 as identical with Buoliana, from which it is very distinct. 

 1 will quote a few lines from a letter which 1 received a day 

 or two since from my friend Mr. Greening : he says, " You do 

 surprise me when you tell me that Dr. Knaggs makes your 

 Pinicolana identical with Buoliana. I think we have not 

 two species in any genus in your list more distinct than 

 these. I cannot see any likeness in the markings, and when 

 alive the two species are very different. Buoliana, on our 

 Mosses, always appears about a fortnight before Pinicolana, 

 and flies in the afternoon and evening in hundreds round the 



