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where the imago, while closely resemhling the dai'lcer specimens of our 

 elm-eatiug species known as hadlipennella, is still darker (i.e. greyer) 

 in colour. This difference enabled me to detect two examples of it 

 among the individuals which formerly made up the lengthy series of 

 reputed hadiipenneUa in the Stainton British Collection, now in 

 the National British Collection. One of these, which has the 

 //wee-valved larval case beside it, was bred by Stainton in 1851 

 from a larva found on ash at Lewisham, while the other was 

 captured while sitting on hawthorn* at Lewisham, by Stainton, on 

 June 29th, 1878. Kent, therefore, shares with Middlesex and Surrey 

 the distinction of having produced this interesting Coleophora . The 

 National British Collection also includes, in the series of hadiipenneUa , 

 four specimens from J. F. Stephens' Collection, labelled as having 

 been so named by him** ; these are, in my opinion, referable to 

 trigemineUa, Fuchs. The fact that Stainton, after breeding the latter 

 from ash, identified it as hadiipennella, suggests the thought that 

 some, at least, of the reputed hadiipenncUa that have been recorded as 

 bi*ed from, or captured amongst, ash, may have been trigemineUa. 



Fuchs himself confused these insects at first, and in Stett. Ent. 

 Zeit., 1880, applied the name badiipennella to the C oleophor awhich, in 

 the following year, he described (Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1881, pp. 462-463) 

 as trigemineUa, n. sp. 



IJntil Fuchs, in Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1899, p. 183, brought forward 

 Coleopliora hroneeUa, as new to science, this species (= trigemineUa, 

 Ebl., Z.-B. v., 1889, p. 322 — nee Fuchs) and trigemineUa, Fuchs, 

 had for some years been confused together imder the latter name, and 

 the specimens hitherto standing as " trigemineUa " in both the Ottmar 

 Hofmann and Stainton Collections are really hroneeUa, and are now 

 so named. Hofmann's individuals have with them the larval cases, 

 labelled as from wild pear, and as received from Professor Krone, who 

 first discovered the insect at Vienna, while Stainton's two specimens, 

 also accompanied by the cases, are labelled by Staudinger, from whom 

 they were received in 1891, as "Coleophora trigemineUa, Austria." 

 Fuchs, in his original notice of hroneeUa (I.e.) says that it is separable, 

 at the first glance, from trigemineUa by its colouring, which is quite 

 different and of a much cleaner grey, and that the fore-wing of the 

 former measures 5 mm., whereas that of trigemineUa is only 4-4' 5 



* It is upon hawtlioni that Mr. Sifh has found the larva of C. tri(/(iiiii><llii.—E.R.B. 



■■' These modern laliels should not he too much relied upon, for 1 have been told, on good 

 authority, that the Stephens Collection was rearranged by Stainton after Stejihens' death. 

 Stainton would naturally have corrected any of Stephens' determinations which he believed to 

 be erroneous, but there is no record of alteratiou-s in nomenclature thus made.— E.R.B. 



