. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. er marginhas sometimes a brickdust tinge, and is in some specimens narrowerand more ill-defined than in others, and that there is occasionally atendency to a small whitish spot just beyond this patch and nearthe inner margin. Fig. 7 represents Nepticula centifoliella, a species which, in thiscountry, seems to be very local and generally scarce where it found the larva feeding in the leaves of sweet briar at Portland,and have bred both broods of the imago. An excellent life historyof this species will be found in Staint
. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. er marginhas sometimes a brickdust tinge, and is in some specimens narrowerand more ill-defined than in others, and that there is occasionally atendency to a small whitish spot just beyond this patch and nearthe inner margin. Fig. 7 represents Nepticula centifoliella, a species which, in thiscountry, seems to be very local and generally scarce where it found the larva feeding in the leaves of sweet briar at Portland,and have bred both broods of the imago. An excellent life historyof this species will be found in Staintons Nat. Hist, of the 196 NEW MOTH. Tineina, vol. vii., p. 204. It has only been found in Portland sofar as this county is concerned, and there seems entirely to takethe place of the generally very common N. anomalella, which Ihave not observed at Portland, from which it is almost indis-tinguishable in the larva state, though the moths are quite different,anomalella having the fore-wings quite plain Avithout any bar. Proc. Dorset Cbah . Vol. X. Mtntern. Bros. lith. del1 etpinx* EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 1. *Epischnia Bankesiella, Richardson, nov. spec, from Portland. la. ,, ,, , ,, ; head of male, magnified; side and back views. 16. ,, ,, , ,, ; head of female, magnified ; side and back views. 2. Chauliodus Insecurellus, Stn., from Purbeck, p. 211. 3. Acrolepia Marcidella, Curt., from Purbeck, p. 209. 4. Crambus Alpinellus, Hub., from Purbeck, p. 202. 5. Coleophora Flavaginella, Lienig, from Portland. See Proc. Dors. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. F. Club viii., p. Case made by the larva of C. Flavaginella. 6. Butalis Siccella, Zell., from near Weymouth. See Proc. Dors. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. F. Club ix., p. Butalis Variella, Steph., from Bloxworth, in collection of Rev. O. P. Cambridge, for comparison with thepreceding species. 7. Nepticula Centifoliella, Zell., from Portland. See remarks at end of preceding Paper on E. Bankesiella, p. 195.
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