NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835 . 
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Coccyx nanana, Treit.; first recorded as British, and 
described by Douglas, in the Zoologist for 1846, at page 
1267, under the name of Sericoris tenebrosana ; it is also 
| figured at page 1268. The species is excessively abundant 
among spruce firs, and it seems incredible that it should 
have previously been entirely overlooked in this country. 
Coccyx Vacciniana, Tischer; first recorded as British 
by Mr. Chant, in the first volume of the Entomological 
I Magazine, page 181, in a notice of an “ Entomological Tour 
in South Devon, by Messrs. Chant and Bastley.” “ May 
31st, took a new Tortrix , for which we propose the name 
Myrtillana; we beat it out of the Vaccinium Myrtillus , 
i which was growing in abundance.” Under this name, 
Sericoris Myrtillana , it is described and figured in Hum¬ 
phrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, vol. ii. page 146, 
pi. lxxxix. fig. 15. It has recently been taken among the 
bilberry in the north of England, in great plenty. 
Retinia Turionella, Linn.; this, the true Turionella , 
| was first recorded as British by myself, in the Zoologist for 
1848, page 1990.—“ I only know of one specimen, which 
was taken by the Rev. W. Johnson, off a fir tree, at Birch 
I Wood, several years ago.” Several specimens have since 
been taken at West Wickham Wood, and it has also been 
bred by Mr. Waring. The larva feeds in the young shoots 
I the Scotch fir, and the crippled distorted appearance they 
assume in April betrays the presence of the larva. The 
' ) arv ® of Buoliana and pinicolana do not distort the shoots 
^ which they feed, till May and June . 
Retinia sylvestrana, Curt.; first recorded and de- 
scribed by Curtis in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, 2nd series, vol. v. page 111.—“It was first disco- 
v ered by Mr. Dale, at Bournemouth, and from the 23rd 
*^ Une to the 1st July, we found it there in 1846. It inhabits 
