108 THE ENTOxMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
similar districts. In the year previous I 
obtained a great rarity, from beneath the 
bark of a prostrate elm in this vicinity — 
Clenicerus sanguinicoUis, which I found 
bedded for the winter with Hgpophlaus 
bicolor. — Alfred Hawahd, Gloucester 
Road, Croydon ; Dec. 20. 
THE BRITISH TORTRICES. 
We now give the species of the fourth 
family of tlie Tortricina. 
Family IV. Peroneid£. 
1. Cheiinatophila 
1. mixlana 
2. Oxygrapha 
1. literana 
2. Scotana 
3. Scabrana 
4. Boscana 
3. Peronea 
1. Schalleriana 
2. com])arana 
3. tristana 
\ 
4. rufana 
5. I.i])siana 
(5. favilliiccana 
7. maccana 
8. Ilastiaua 
1). unibrana 
10. cristana 
11. pennutana 
12. variegana 
4. Paramesia 
1. aspcrsana 
2. fenugana 
3. Caledoniana 
.0. Tcras 
I. caudana 
BRITISH AND EUROPEAN 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
I r almost seems that the British Lejii- 
dopUia do not belong to Europe! In 
the collections of I.epidoplera in Great 
Britain there is not to be seen a specimen 
from the Continent of Europe, and here 
we have seldom the good fortune to pos- 
sess any British examples. How dis- 
advantageous this is to the extremely 
interesting Lepidopterous Fauna of Great 
Britain, which the most zealous and 
learned Lepidopterists of that country can 
only half comprehend. Can we understand 
the history of England without knowing 
that of at least the neighbouring country ? 
Can we conceive the cause of ibe 
greatness and world-wide dominion of 
England by the most precise study of 
Us map ? 
The British Lepidoptera were not ori- 
ginally created on British ground, but 
have migrated thither, like the British 
people. This is the more probable, that, 
as Geology almost certainly has proved, 
in former time England was connected 
with the Continent. At present it is cer- 
tain that as many as eight species, of 
which specimens make a show in British 
collections as natives, are only wanderers 
or accidental visitors. This is certainly 
the case with Deilepliila luieata, Celerio, 
D. pulchella, &c. ; consequently, as it is 
certain that ibe British Lepidoptera were 
formerly derived from the Continent, 
must it not be very intercsiing to compare 
and see how Brilisb locality, Briiish cli- 
mate and Briiish food have or have not 
effected a change in the forms originally 
introduced ! And that England produces 
the must highly interesting mudilicatiuns 
in many species, 1 saw with great aston- 
ishment, and still greater interest, during 
my late short visit to that country. For 
my part, I am sure that a species can 
only be truly known when one possesses 
it in all its local varieties. Further, rich 
as is the Lepidopterous Eauna of Great 
Britain, yet is it not nearly rich enough 
to enable one to construct from it alone 
even a tolerable system. That therefore 
a system so partially formed must have 
great dclicicncics is a logical consequence 
