XIV PREFACE. 



Harpalyce sagittaria, entirely new to Britain, is recorded by Mr. 

 Henry Doubleday (Zool. 2236) as having occurred at Peterborough, 

 and the same eminent naturalist records [the occurrence of Zeuzera 

 arundinis (Zool. 2236), the females of which have never previously 

 been taken in this country, and a single male is unique in his own 

 cabinet. In turning our attention to the Micro-Lepidoptera, we find 

 that here the labours of British Lepidopterists have been most ardent 

 and most successful. Mr. Bedell has described a beautiful species, 

 Microsetia quiuquella (Zool. 1986), taken by himself in some abund- 

 ance on the oaks at West Wickham, and entirely new to science. Mr. 

 Logan has described Ephippiphora turbidana (Zool. 2034), taken by 

 himself near Edinburgh, on the burdock, and new to Britain. Mr. 

 Sircom has described Lophoptilus Staintoni and Microsetia Bedellella 

 (Zool. 2037), taken by himself on Durdham Downs, near Bristol, and 

 by Mr. Stainton on Sanderstead Downs, Surrey : both these moths 

 are new to science. Mr. Stainton has contributed largely to our store 

 of knowledge of these minute tribes. His descriptions of Tortricida? 

 in the January number (Zool. 1987) contain many insects previously 

 unrecorded as British, and several errors in synonomy are carefully 

 rectified. In the March number (Zool. 2035) Mr. Stainton describes 

 Phycita interpunctella, taken by Mr. E. Shepherd in London, and 

 Chauliodus Illigerellus, taken by Mrs. Stainton on the Surrey Downs : 

 both of them are new to Britain. In the April number (Zool. 2078) 

 the same author commences his admirable ' Monograph on the 

 British Argyromiges,' completed in the course of the volume, with 

 descriptions of forty British species and figures of their wings : and 

 lastly, he describes in the July number (Zool. 2164) three species of 

 Aphelosetia, under the name of obscurepunctella, biatomella, and 

 rhynchosporella ; all of them new to science. The unwearying 

 assiduity of this talented entomologist has given a great impulse 

 to the study of our minute moths. 



Tn Hymenoptera, I have to notice the occurrence of Trigonalys 

 Anglicanus, recorded (Zool. 1994) by Mr. Frederick Smith as having 

 been captured in Derbyshire: the same unwearied and most accurate 

 entomologist has concluded his descriptions of British Bees : this 



