October, 1866.] 97 
A FEW WOllDS ABOUT GELEOHIA TRIANNULELLA. 
BY n. T. STAINTON, F.L.S. 
This insect was figured by Herrich-Schafter on the 63rcl plale of 
the fifth volume of his Schmetterlinge von Eiiropa, in the year 1853 ; 
in the following year, at p. 201 of the letter-press, the brief description 
of it ap])eared, Herrich-SchiifFer quoting as a doubtful synonyme the 
inornatella of Douglas. We there read — 
" Testaceo fusca, inter costas elevatas obscurior, punctis limbalibus 
et tribus disci, utrinque albido terminatis, nigerrimis. 
" Habit of cinerella, yet with the wings much narrower and 
longer, even narrower than in lineolella, but not with so oblique a 
hind margin. The colour is of a fresher brown, more inclining to 
coppery-red that in cinerella, the nervures and the two dividing lines 
of the cilia not so distinct as in lineolella. All the three typical spots 
are produced lengthwise, especially that towards the inner margin, 
which is nearer the base, and dashed with whitish at both ends. 
" Both sexes from Hungary, the female with the wings still nar- 
rower, four specimens ; also from Switzerland, from Mons. de la Harpe." 
In 1856, a brief notice of the same insect appeared in Frey's 
Tineen und Pterophoren der Schweiz. 
" Alis ant. testaceo-fuscis, inter veuas elevatas obscurioribus, punc- 
tis disci atque max'ginis postici utrinque albido terminatis, nigerrimis. 
Cf. H. S. ? , 6 lin. 
" I only saw a single female specimen. As this was not quite 
fresh, I use Herrich-Schaffer's description [which he then quotes]. 
" This sj^ecies, found in Hungary, Avas obtained by Laharpe in the 
neighbourhood of Lausanne ; but as it appears, only a single specimen." 
The diagnosis above given is supposed to be copied from Herrich- 
Schafter, only a few words being altered to make it more uniform with, 
the other diagnoses in Professor Prey's work ; in this transposition of 
words a slight alteration has, however, been effected in their sense. 
The careful reader will perceive that Herrich-Schafter had informed us 
that the "three spots of the disc are each terminated with whitish;" 
in Prey's diagnosis the whitish terminations are also appended to the 
hinder marginal spots, a meaning of which possibly Herrich-Schafter's 
words are capable, but clearly not that which was intended by him. 
In the month of April, 1856, 1 visited Chartres, in order to make 
the personal acquaintance of Monsieur Achille Guenee, and when I 
returned to Paris in the evening I brought Avith me some few visible 
memorials of my visit • amongst these was a specimen of an insect, 
