beneath, abdomen more finely and sparsely punctured. According to 
Nylander, who examined the types of Fabricius, the metatarsus of 
fulvipes type is, excepting the apex, clothed with yellow hairs, thus 
differing from both of Schenck’s species, but agreeing less with his 
labiata than with his fulvipes. 
The form from Southern Finland mentioned by Nylandcr (Adnt., 
ex. mon. Ap. Bor., p. 249) also resembles the latter, having the “ sco- 
pula fulvous.” 
Taking Schenck’s characters for the German species, the following 
synopsis will enable the males of the known species of the genus to be 
distinguished. 
labiata, Fabr. Tip of hind tibia drawn out beneath into a tooth, before which 
is another small blunt tooth. 
LABIATA, Sch. A slight emargination on the inner border of the hind tibia 
before the tip, the tip not drawn out into a tooth. 
CILIATA. Lower face of hind tibia produced at apex into a short three-toothed 
process. 
patellata. A stout, oblique, truncated projection from the tip of the hind 
tibia beneath. 
Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.A. 
NOTES ON BRITISH TORT RICES. 
BY C. G. BARRETT. 
(Continued from vol. xvi, page 244). 
Asthenia scopariana, TI.-S. This very pretty species (new to 
Britain) has been reared by Mr. J. B. Iiodgkinson from larvae found 
by him at Dutton, near Bibchester, Lancashire, but, by an unfortunate 
oversight, the food plant is not certain. Most probably it was the 
common broom, blit no doubt the discoverer will remedy the oversight 
by next season. The moth is closely allied to cosmophorana and coni- 
ferana , as well as to splendidulana and strobilella. It is placed by 
Wocke between corollana ( Ileegerana ) and cosmophorana , and by 
Heinemann between the latter species and Zebeana in the vast genus 
Grapholitha. In Wilkinson and Stainton’s arrangement, it should 
follow cosmophorana in the genus Asthenia ; in Doubleday’s it might 
be placed in either Coccyx or Stiymonota. 
A short description of the moth may be useful — 
Fore-wings dark olive-brown from the base to beyond the middle, thence pale 
golden-brown ; markings pale silvery, consisting of three pairs of short costal streaks 
(sometimes with additional costal spots between them), the first pair nearly or quite 
uniting with a slender, upright or slightly curved dorsal streak, the second pair also 
nearly uniting, witli an oblique curved streak, which reaches the anal angle, and the 
