202 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



margin. Posterior wings pale-grey with paler cilia. A single specimen, 

 in the collection of Mr. Douglas, taken by him at Birch Wood in the 

 spring (Stainton, Insecta Britannica, pp. 19-20). 



Note on the unique specimen of B. douglasii.- — This certainly 

 appears to be most decidedly a species quite distinct from any of the 

 known Palasarctic species ; and we cannot even imagine that it can 

 possibly be an extreme aberration of any of them. We have little 

 doubt that it is a Bankesia, and its superficial appearance is very like 

 B. staintoni, although, owing to its pale ground colour, it reminds one 

 even more of B. alpestrella, whilst it shows no really very close con- 

 nection therewith. The darker fuscous markings are prominent and 

 take the form of somewhat irregularly oblique lines from costa to outer 

 margin before the apex, but the specimen is aberrant, for on the left 

 forewing these form a V with the point on the outer margin. The 

 other more regular dark markings of the right forewing are also aber- 

 rant on the left, where the discoidal cell is in a pale transverse band 

 distinctly edged on its inner margin by a fuscous line which separates 

 the basal and outer areas of the wing. No such band is observable 

 on the right forewing. There is a distinct but small fuscous spot 

 about halfway along the inner edge of the forewing (in the same 

 position as the larger one in B. staintoni), whilst a paler marginal 

 blotch just within this spot is also distinctly traceable. 



Comparison of S. douglasii with S. inconspicuella. — Anterior 

 wings, 6'" in expanse, broader than those of S. inconspicuella, the tip 

 less rounded, the whitish spots more sharply defined, and the dark 

 marginal spots wanting. Perhaps only a form of S. inconspicuella 

 (Stainton). 



Locality. — Surkey: Birch Wood (Douglas). 



Bankesia staintoni, Walsm. 

 Synonymy. — Species : Staintoni, Walsm., "Ent. Eecorcl," xi., pp. 257-8 (1899). 

 Conspurcatella, [?Bruand, " Mon. des Psych.," pp. 103, 118, no. 76, pi. ii., fig. 76 

 (1853)] ; Sta., " Ent. Ann.," 1868, pp. 127-9, (pi.) fig. 3 (1867); 1874, p. 2 (1874) ; 

 Hein., " Schmett. Deutsch. Tin.," pp. 19-20, in part (1870) ; Staud. and Wocke, 

 "Cat. Lep. Eur.," p. 266, no. 1,330 (1871); [? Eossl., " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," 

 xxxviii., p. 376 (1877)]; [?Seeb., "An. Soc. Esp.N.H.," viii., p. 124 (1879); ?Hrtrnn., 

 "Mitt. Miinch. Ent. Ver.," iii., p. 195, no. 1,330 (1879)]; Swinton, " Ins. Var.," 

 pp. 2-3 (1880); Curo and Tur., "Bull. Soc. Ent. It.," xv., p. 3, in part (1882) ; 

 [?Sorh., " Die Klein schmett. Brand.," p. 326, no. 1 (1886)] ; Meyr., " Handbook," &c, 

 pp. 775-6 (1895); Chapman, "Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxxii., p. 80 (1896). [Heinemann 

 considers (evidently following Zeller) this species to be possibly the lapidicella of 

 Guenee (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, iv., p. 14 (1S46) =p>ectinella, Dup. (Hist. Nat., 

 supp. iv., p. 512, pi. 89, fig. 6), which is incorrect.] 



Original description. — A careful description of the British species 

 hitherto confused with conspurcatella, Zell., will be found, Ent. Ann., 

 1868, pp. 128-9, (pi.) fig. 3, of which I have the original MS., but as 

 this was evidently taken from Belgian specimens sent by M. Fologne, 

 before Mr. Swinton's English specimens were received, it cannot at 

 present be safely applied to an English type, although it would fit it 

 extremely well". . . . It would be appropriate to apply to this the 

 name staintoni (Walsingham, Ent. Record, xi., p. 257). Stainton's de- 

 scription reads as follows : " Alis anticis angustulis, albido-stramineis, 

 nitidis, concinne fusco-punctatis, maculis tribus majoribus fuscis, prima 



* We have no hesitation in stating tbat the specimens in the " Stainton " coll. 

 received from M. Fologne (Brussels) and Swinton (Southampton) arc specifically 

 identical. 



