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hood. My friend Mr. Allis, of York, has a fine female, taken some six or eight years 

 ago by a collector near Halifax. These two are I believe the only British specimens 

 which have as yet occurred, though I understand it is a common German species. 

 Mr. Allis has kindly sent me his specimen to figure and describe. I am also indebted 

 to the kindness of Mr. Henry Doubleday for ascertaining the name. — R- F. Logan ; 

 Dudding stone, near Edinburgh, December 31, 1847. 



Description of Phycita interpunctella, Hubner, a new British Species of the Family 

 Tineidce. — Size of elutella, which it much resembles ; but the anterior wings, from a 

 little before the middle to the apex, are blackish-brown, with something of a reddish 

 tinge. Mr. E. Shepherd took a specimen of this in his house last summer, which I 

 should have been inclined to think only an extraordinary variety of elutella, but as 

 the insect is figured in Hubner and Duponchel as distinct, I presume it is really a 

 species. The latter gives the following description of it. " Anterior wings are above 

 of a yellowish-white from the base to the middle, and of a red-brown on the rest of 

 the surface. This latter part, in the centre of which is a reddish spot, is crossed by 

 three metallic lead-coloured lines. Cilia also of this colour. Posterior wings of a 

 shining dirty white on both sides. The head, palpi, antennae and thorax are of a 

 reddish-brown. The body and feet partake of the colour of the posterior wings." — 

 H. T. Stainton ; Mountsfield, Lewisham, January 28, 1848. 



Description of Chauliodus Illigerellus, Hubner, a new British Moth of the Family 

 Tineidce. — The genus Chauliodus was formed by Treitschke, and contains as yet but 

 two species. The character which at once distinguishes this genus is the two pro- 

 jecting tufts of scales on the inner margin of the anterior wings. Tinea Tlligerella is 

 figured in Hubner, Tinea, N. 333, and as Chauliodus Illigerellus in Duponchel, vol. xi. 

 Plate 294, f. 1. Head and thorax pale ochreous ; forehead smooth ; palpi dark brown ; 

 antennas brown, annulated with ochreous ; abdomen dark griseous ; legs brown; tarsi 

 annulated with ochre. Anterior wings ochreous to near the middle, then a cloudy 

 fascia, with a red-brown spot near the inner margin ; beyond this fascia is an ochreous 

 mark, resembling an inverted Y, the space between the forks being brownish ; the rest 

 of the wing is dull brown, with a red-brown spot near the costa, beyond which is an 

 ochreous mark, in which a dark blotch is visible ; the outer margin of the wing is 

 curiously curved, and on the inner margin are two distinct fascicles of projecting black 

 scales ; on the disk are five distinct black dots, three placed transversely near the base, 

 and two near the middle, one on each side of the Y; cilia brown, varied with ochre- 

 ous, with a distinct line of black dots near the edge, and another (interrupted about 

 the middle) on the extreme edge. Posterior wings and cilia grayish ; cilia of the 

 hinder margin very long. Two specimens of this insect were taken by Mrs. Stainton 

 and her sister, on the downs near Stoat's Nest, on the 31st of July, 1847. I am una- 

 ble, not having caught them myself, to speak with certainty as to what plant they 

 were beaten out of, but most probably out of the junipers, as we thrashed the junipers 

 most assiduously for Cochylis rutilana, of which T was fortunate enough to obtain five. 

 Mr. W. Shepherd also took a specimen of this insect off the junipers at the same 

 place, the following week. — Id. 



Descriptions of Coriscium Alaudella and C. quercetellum, two new British Moths of 

 the Family Tineidce. — " The genus Coriscium of Zeller consists of only three species,, 

 of which the transformations are not known, and which, according to M. Zeller, only 

 differs from Gracillaria by having the penultimate joint of the palpi furnished beneath 



