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10. Genus: Seioptera Bamb. 



Here belong a few species which occur only in the high mountains and are distinguished by remarkably 

 long fringes resembling eye-lashes, the wing-membrane being dark-coloured. Otherwise closely agreeing with 

 the previous genus, whose species, however, differ from Scioptera in their more robust build of the body. 



S. tenella Speyer (55 e). ^: Wings black-grey, almost hyaline, forewing strongly widened towards lenella. 

 apex, about subtriangular, with the apex however strongly rounded, the distal margin being oblique. The ab- 

 domen does not reach the anal angle of the broadly rounded, obtuse hindwing, and the antenna does not attain 

 to the centre of the forewing. Length of forewing 8 — 9 mm. $ dirty yellow, with polished black head and thoraci- 

 cal plates. Larva full-fed 17.5 mm long, 4 — 4.5 mm broad, with the head and thoracical plates black and' the 

 latter divided in the centre. The case is described as being slender, covered with fragments of leaves and 

 mica, fastened on rocks, and biennial. A case before me from coll. Seitz, however, is in the centre almost 

 half as broad as it is long (7 resp. 15 mm.), covered with short, small fragments of stalks mostly placed trans- 

 versely, but not very regularly arranged, all kept together by a very loose web. In the high South- Western 

 Alps and the mountains of Castile. Flies in July and August. ■ — zermattensis Frey is smaller, darker, and zermatlensis. 

 occurs at lower altitudes, particularly near Locarno at the Lago Maggiore, being on the wing already in April. 



S. plumistrella Hbn. (= plumigerella Bdv.) (55 e) has brown-black, densely scaled, opaque, and plumistrella. 

 narrower wings and an exceptionally long-haired head. Forewing 8^ — 9 mm long. $ yellowish white with 

 dark head and thoracic plates. Larva brownish, with black head and brownish thoracical plates, the latter 

 mesially divided by a pale stripe. The case up to 17 mm long, covered with sand and sometimes posteriorly 

 with stalks of grass. — -Occurs in the higher Alps not below 2000 m and flies in July; in the Berlin Museum, 

 e. g., from Seis in the Southern Tyrol. 



S. schiffermilleri Stgr. {= hirsutella Schiff.) (55 e). Recognised by the wings being more thinly scaled, scUffer- 

 particularly in the apical half, and further differing from the preceding insect in the more pointed forewing with '"«'«'"'• 

 a more oblique distal margin; the colouring more greyish, darkest in the basal areas of the wings. Size 

 considerable, the forewing being 11 — -12 mm long. The abdomen reaches the anal angle of the hindwing. $ 

 whitish yellow, with honey-coloured head and thoracic plates. Larva wine-red, with the head and thoracic 

 plates dark brown, the latter bearing three yellow longitudinal lines. On thoracic segment 1 at each side a 

 semicircular yellow mark filled in with a dark colour. The case is 18- — -20 mm long, being covered in the ^ 

 with fragments of leaves and ending in a long white tube, in the $ more ventricose and usually only covered 

 with short stalks of grass. — In the Austrian and Bavarian Alps (Allgau), in the southern Alps of Carin- 

 thia, questionably also in Switzerland. Flies in June during the morning. 



11. Genus: Psjelie Schrank. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus in facies at once by the short and apically very broad forewing, 

 the apex and hind angle being broadly rounded, and the distal margin convex and but slightly oblique. The 

 neuration variable; in the forewing 12 veins, 4 and 5 stalked as are also 8 and 9; hindwing with 8 veins, 

 7 connected with 8 by an oblic£ue bar, discocellular very oblique, a cell within cell. ?? very robust. The 

 case is very thick and covered with short dry stalks of grass and ribs of leaves all placed transversely. 



Ps. viciella Schiff. (= siciella Hbn.) (55 e). ^ greyish brown, the body for the greater part clothed viciella. 

 with yellowish hair, margins of both wings darker, but the vems hardly so. Length of forewing 10 — -11 mm. 

 $ reddish yellow, thoracic plates and three small horny sclerites on anal segment darker. Larva olive, with the 

 head and thoracic plates black-brown, the latter bearing yellow markings ; biennial, e. g. on Vicia and Rham- 

 nus. Pupa of $ black, brownish at the ends. Casegrey, cylindrical, about 18 mm. long and 9 mm broad in centre. 

 Hungary, Belgium, Southern Sweden, Southern Russia, Bulgaria, questionably also in Asia Minor. — stetti- sieidnensis. 

 nensis Hering (= fasciculella H.-Schdff.) (55e) is smaller (forewing 9— 10 mm long), darker, the forewing less 

 rounded, hindwing always with veins 4 and 5 stalked. The case is only about 15 x 6 mm large. Occurs at 

 Stettin and said to be also found in the higher Alps of Carinthia. — detrita Led., from the Altai, has the deiriia. 

 pectinations of the antenna longer and darker, the body, too, being darker than in viciella. Only one but 

 indifferently preserved specimen known. 



Ps. viadrina Stgr. (55e), from Silesia, South-Eastem Hungary and Roumania, is very close to Ps. viadnna. 

 viciella stettinensis, but still smaller (fore^ving 6 mm long) and darker, blackish, as is also the hair of the 

 body. 9 and larva as in viciella, but the case relatively smaller. 



Ps. constancella Brd. (= milleriella Led.) (55 e) is characterised by the wings bemg rather narrower co«s«anceZ;a. 

 and the forewing more pointed than in Ps. viciella; colouring black-grey, with the hair of the abdomen deep 

 black, long and shaggy, and the veins, fringes and costal margin of foremng black. Forewmg 9—10 mm long. 

 Shaft of antenna whitish. Larva and case closely resemble those of the preceding insects, but the case is usually 

 covered externally with a loose web and has a much longer apical tube in the (J. — In the Pyrenees and 

 Central and Eastern France. In June. 



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