NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1854. 67 
ROSLERST AMMIA PRONUBELLA, W.Y.; a single 
specimen of this very conspicuous species was taken at 
Sutherlandshire, in May last, by Mr. Buxton ; its capture is 
recorded in the Zoologist, page 4437. The insect is very rare 
on the Continent; and though known to the authors of the 
Wiener Verzeichniss, and Fabricius who mis-spells it pro - 
mulelldy it had been quite lost sight of by later authors 
(unless we except Hiibner, whose figure, it is most charitable 
to suppose, was made from a description, form and colour 
both being so excessively faulty), till lately it has been 
noticed by Herrich-Scbaffer and Reutti. The extraordinary 
way in which some species seem entirely to disappear, and 
then, after a lapse of many years, simultaneously turn up in 
many distant localities, is one of the great marvels of Ento- 
mology. 
Alis anticis viridi-aureis, costa ipsa in medio dilute lutea ; alis posticis 
dilute luteis griseo-fimbriatis. Exp. al. 6 J lin. 
Head dark yellow, in front deep purple. Face and palpi pale yellow. 
Antennae dark fuscous, a short space before the apex white. Anterior 
wings shining golden green, darkest towards the base near the costa; the 
costa, from a little before the middle to beyond the middle, is pale yel¬ 
lowish ; cilia pale greyish bronze. Posterior wings pale yellowish , with 
the margins rather dark fuscous , darkest towards the apex; cilia pale 
grey. Posterior legs pale yellowish white. 
COLEOPHORA LIMOSIPENNELLA, F. v. R.; 
bred this summer from “elm leaves, picked at Sutton, with 
the large Coleophora of the elm {limosipennella ?)” (Ent. 
Comp. 127); and also from similar larvae on alder, thus 
noticed in Ent. Comp. 133 : “ Aug. 23rd, T. B. sent me two 
Coleophora larvae from alder, the cases similar to those of 
C. limosipennella?” In July, 1854, I collected the larvae 
Ver y plentifully on elms, near the Bee-hive at Burford 
Bridge. The species in the perfect state closely resembles 
C> badiipennella , but is larger and darker, and the whitish 
