SOLENOBIA INCONSPICUELLA. 165 



collection to S. icockii (i.e., wockii, Barr. nee Hein.). Sidebotham, who 

 has Edleston's collection, considers (Ibid., xxxiii., pp. 125-6) all the 

 forms actually collected by Edleston to be identical and to represent 

 S. inconspicuella, whilst Barrett goes on to say that they are even 

 identical in the character of the anal tuft, Edleston having previously 

 noted them as differing in this particular. Walsingham (Ibid., p. 129) 

 considers the triquetrella and inconspicuella of Edleston to be identical 

 and not to be separated from true inconspicuella. Barrett notes (Ibid., 

 p. 128) two examples in the " Doubleday " collection under the name 

 of triquetrella, larger than ordinary inconspicuella. These Durrant 

 considers (Ibid., p. 220) to be either a strongly-marked form of S. 

 wockii, or more probably to represent a species intermediate between 

 S. wockii and 5'. inconspicuella, having the facies of the latter and the 

 coloration of the former, but with a more distinct pattern. 



(3. ? var. icockii, Barr. (nee Hein.), " Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxxi., pp. 163-4 (1895). — 

 When at Birmingham I noticed in the collection of Mr. B. C. Bradley a specimen 

 of the male of a species of Sulenobia unknown to me .... Of other specimens 

 captured April 15th-17th, 1895, three were forwarded to me .... and quite recently 

 I found, in the collection of the late Professor Frey, of Zurich, specimens agreeing 

 most accurately with them under the name of icockii, Hein., and labelled " Silesia," 

 hence probably from Dr. Wocke .... As may be expected, the yellowish 

 colouring (of S. wockii) is exceedingly indistinct in the British specimens, and 

 the dark hecks and latticing more pronounced, but the proportionately large 

 whitish spots, or interstices, agree well, and I think that there is no doubt of the 

 correctness of this identification. That Mr. Bradley's specimens agree with Frey's 

 types is beyond question. In Mr. Stainton's collection I find a single specimen of 

 the same species among his specimens of inconspicuella, and from its being labelled 

 "Edleston," I have little doubt that the present species is that which was alluded 

 to by Mr. Edleston in the Intelligencer, vol. v., p. 146, as either triquetrella or a 

 new species (Barrett). 



Mr. Bradley has allowed us to examine two of the examples of the 

 Solenobia that Barrett has referred to 8. ivockii. These specimens are 

 respectively 12- 5mm. and 18mm. in the expanse of the forewings, 

 which are decidedly narrow compared with their length, and, as 

 Barrett points out, are grey, and with no tinge of ochreous in the 

 colour. They appear to be identical with the series of Batisbon 

 8. inconspicuella in the " Stainton " and " Frey " collections, the speci- 

 mens of which average 12-5mm.-13mm., and show the same peculiar 

 narrowness of the forewings. The smaller of Mr. Bradley's examples 

 appears also to be identical with an individual in our possession taken 

 amongst a large number of $ S. inconspicuella, at Brentwood, by the 

 Kevs. C. Burrows and G. Baynor, and which varied considerably inter 

 se. Compared with 8. irockiihom. Silesia (of which there appear to be but 

 two in the " Stainton " and two in the " Erey " collection) Mr. Bradley's 

 examples are greyer in tone, without the decided ochreous tinge, and 

 are proportionally narrower-winged than S. wockii. The examples of 

 8. wockii in the " Stainton " collection are about 18mm. and ll-5mm. in 

 expanse respectively, those in the " Erey " collection 12mm. andl2-25mm. 

 The only feature in which Bradley's examples approach S. wockii is in the 

 rut her large pale specklings which, however, are just as abundant in 

 some 8. inconspicuella, although others are almost without them. Some 

 Continental lepidopterists consider »S'. wockii to be a form of S. incon- 

 : I icuella ; we are not prepared to say that this is so, but there can be 

 no dun lu, that the grey Solenobia from Wyre Forest is not the ochreous 

 >'. wockii. Having submitted the Wyre specimens to Lord Walsing- 

 ham and Mr. Durrant, they write : " We have true S. wockii sent by 



