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continues of a dirty whitish colour just above the legs to the end of 
the thirteenth, having a fine line of the ground colour running through 
below ; the minute round spiracles are of the ground colour, finely 
ringed with darker, the tubercular dots very small, blackish-brown, 
and slightly glistening, each with a fine hair ; the ocellated spot on 
either side of the third and twelfth segments is of the ground colour, 
ringed with black, and with a minute black centre bearing an extra 
long hair ; the anterior legs black, the ventral and anal legs of the 
ground colour. This individual produced an ichneumon on the 25th 
of June, 1S80. — ¥m. Buckler. 
Emsworth : 
13 th November , 1880. 
[The re-discovery of this species, the genuine Phycita hostilis of Stephens, is of 
considerable interest. The only recent (probable) record upon which I can put my 
hand, is at vol. iv, p. 152, of this Magazine, when the late Rev. E. Horton recorded 
the rearing of a specimen of a Pliycis adelphella in the year I860, from a larva 
found feeding on aspen, near Worcester, and gave a short description of the larva. 
The name hostilis, Steph., had before that time been superseded in favour of 
adelphella, Eisch., by Mr. Doubleday in his catalogue, but, apparently, without 
sufficient reason, supposing the species to be identical, for Stephens’ description, 
published in 1834, is probably anterior to that of Fischer von Rbslerstamm, 1834 to 
1843. I also think that Mr. Doubleday must have relied upon a description of 
adelphella, and not on a comparison of the insects themselves. 
Some years ago Professor Zeller, who had also described adelphell a in the Isis 
(1846), sent me a type from Silesia, and as Dr. Wood has kindly allowed me to 
examine one of his specimens, I am able to record the result. 
Adelphella (from Zeller) is rather lik e formosa, Haw., but with narrower fore- 
wings, the costa being regularly curved, the base of fore-wings brick-red, bounded 
by a broad, oblique, curved, blackish, cloudy fascia, which includes the first line, 
double, twice angulated, black with a wTiito line between. The remainder of the 
wing clouded w r ith dark grey, except an ill-defined brick-red blotch along the dorsal 
margin. Second lino double, sinuous, placed far back but very distinct in the cloudy- 
grey ground colour, central dot also very indistinct. Hind-wings pale grey. 
Stephens’ description of hostilis is as follows : “ Anterior wings brownish, with 
the base somewhat ferruginous and immaculate ; this space is followed by a broadish, 
waved, fuscous or black fascia, in which is a pale streak ; towards the hinder margin 
is a second dark fascia, in which is a distinct waved pale streak, slightly angulated 
towards the inner margin ; the space between them is slightly clouded, and bears a 
brown lunule towards the costa ; on the hinder margin is an interrupted fuscous 
line ; cilia brownish ; posterior wdngs fuscous, cilia paler, shining, Avith a dai’k lino 
at the base. 
“ I have a specimen of this very distinct species, which a little resembles the 
foregoing [ pinguis ] which I took at Darenth Wood in June many years since, and 
another found at Ripley in 1827.” — Illustr. Haust., iv., p. 307. 
With this description of hostilis Dr. Wood’s specimen agrees most accurately, 
