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unnoticed in some collections. But I would rather impress upon tlie 

 attention of our collectors tlie extreme desirability of hunting about, 

 wherever these insects occur in any plenty, for specimens in copula, 

 and not only that, but, if possible, to detect a ? in the act of ovi- 

 positing, so that we may thus obtain some clue to its food plant, of 

 which we are at present quite ignorant. 



"Whilst not myself prepared to endorse the views which are en- 

 tertained by Hcer Snellen, I think it is only fair to that author to lay 

 them fully before my readers, and I therefore append a translation of 

 his "JSTote on the European species of the genus Pancalia, Stephens," 

 which appeared in the "Tijdschrift voor Entomologie," 1877, pp. 85-89. 



"In Herrich-Schaffer's celebrated work on the European Zepz 

 doptera, " Systematische Eearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa,' 

 Y, p. 210, three species of the above-named genus occur. There are 

 no others in the latest Catalogue of Staudinger and Wocke, and in 

 the last part of Heinemann's work on the ' Schmetterlinge Deutsch- 

 lands und der Schweiz,' brought out in October, 1876, by Dr. "Wocke 

 after the death of von Heinemann, only these three species are men- 

 tioned as occurring in the countries of v/hich the author treats. 



" Herrich-Schaffer distinguishes the two species which had already 

 long been known (according to him LeuwenlwecJcella, "W. Y., and La 

 treillella, Steph.), and which both have dark-margined, golden-browi 

 anterior-wings, with a slender fascia near the base and five margina 

 streaks silvery, by their size, the darkness of the ground-colour of th 

 anterior-wings, the situation of the hindmost dorsal streak and th 

 antennae, Latreillella being the larger and paler species, with the las 

 dorsal streak somewhat sloping and with the antennae entirely dark' 

 whereas, in Leutvenhoechella, they have a broad white ring before thi; 

 tip. He then adds to them a third species, nodosella, Mann, (Yerl 

 zool.-bot. Yereins Wien, 1854, p. 586), of which he says, ' Yery ne£| 

 LeuwenlioeJcella ; the ground colour of the anterior-wings much darkcj 

 brown, the silver spots more raised like drops, the small one on tl 

 middle of the inner margin wanting, the antennae thickened beyoil "fiu 

 the middle with projecting scales, the portion in front of them whij ^^^ 

 at the base.' From Spain and Northern Italy. 



" I have not compared Mann's description with that of Herric 

 Schaffer,but it is quoted in Stainton's " Tineina of Southern Europ 



kitz 



pp. 107, 116, and 245, and I cannot remember when reading that bop 



it 



to have noticed any difference from Herrich-Schaffer, so that tl 

 nodosella of the latter and that of Mann may be considered identical 



Erey, in his ' Tineeu und Pterophoren der Schweiz,' p. 166, sail \j^ 



