REBELIA; EPICHNOPTERYX. By Dr. E. Stra^. 365 



20. Genus : Kebelia Heyl. 



The wings are clothed with hair-scales and elongate, and bear glossy fruiges; forewing with 11 free 

 marginal veins, of which 7 and 8 are usually forked. Fore tibia with a spur which is only half the length of the 

 tibia. Antenna pectinated to the tip, the teeth short and regularly arranged. The $ entirely reduced, clothed 

 with woolly hair. The larvae yellow with the head and thoracical plates black, the latter bearuig light stripes 

 in the centre and at the sides. The cases have the shape of a beet-root, being externally covered with sand. 



R. sapho Mill. (56 g). In the S the forewing 10—11 mm long, brownish, the fringes having a silky sapho. 

 gloss. The 9 honey-yellow with grey hair. — Hungary, Istria, Croatia, Dalmatia, Northern Italy, questionably 

 also from Switzerland, in May — June. Larva and case resembling those of R. nudella, but are larger. 



R. nocturnella Alph. (55g), from Southern Russia and Central Asia, differs in the cj from the preced- noctumella. 

 ing species in being smaller, having longer antennal branches, weaker scaling, and grejash yellow wings whose 

 fringes have a whitish gloss; the foreM'ing measuring only 8 mm. 



R. karawankensis Hofn. (55 g), from Carinthia, is distinguished from R. plumella H.-Schdff. by the karawan- 

 more delicate and more elongate wings, whose surface and fringes have a silky loam-yellow gloss and whose ^^nsts. 

 distal margin appears much less convex. Flies in July. $ and early stages unknown. 



R. surientella Brd. (= suriens Mill., 1 nigrolucidella Brd.) (55 g) is larger and more broad-winged si(rien<rffa. 

 than R. phnnella, the forewing particularly is strongly widened distally; light greyish brown, the fringes glossy 

 pale brownish. Forewing 9 mm long. - In Western Germany, the southern valleys of the Alps, Dalmatia 

 and Bosnia. $ and the early stages as in the allied species. 



R. herrichiella Strand, nom. nov. (= plumella H.-Schdff. nee Schiff., Hbn.), with the forewing 6 — 8 mm herricMeUa. 

 long, is brown with bright brownish yellow glossy fringes; the forewing does not become wider distally as it 

 does in the preceding insect, and the pectinations of the antenna are shorter and less regularly arranged. $ 

 pale yellow, with grey woolly hair. The case is usually dark and somewhat curved. — Southern Germany, 

 Austria-Hungary, Romania. 



R. nudella 0. (55 g). <^: Wings grey with blackish costal and distal margins and pure white fringes nudella. 

 with silky gloss. Length 8 — 9 mm. Body black. $ reddish yellow, with yellowish grey wool. Larva on herbage, 

 hibernates. In Lower Austria, Carinthia, Hungary, Central France, Arragonia; flies in June. — vestalis vesialis. 

 Stgr. (= pectinella Hbn.) is smaller and entirely white. In Southern Russia, Eastern Hungary, Rumelia and 

 Soiithern France. 



R. staudingerii/ej/L, from Sarepta, is much smaller than the previous species (forewing 4.5— 5 mm long), staudingeri. 

 and has bluish grey wings with glossy white fringes. 



R. millieri Heyl. is somewhat larger than the last (forewing 6 mm long), more brownish, the wing millieri. ] 

 still more elongate, and the forewing with 8 marginal veins only. — In the southern foot-hills of the Ural Mts. 



R. flavescens Heyl. (55 g), from the Ala Tau, has the forewing barely 5 mm long, yellow, apically suf- flavescens. 

 fused with orange, with whitish yellow fringes and 10 free veins; the hindwing is a little more greyish. — 

 kuldschaensis Heyl, from the Tianshan, is larger (expanse 11-13 mm instead of the 9.5 mm of the name- kuMschaen- 

 typical form); the colouring is yellow without orange suffusion; the hindwing darker, bluish grey. 



21. Genus: Xlpioliiiopteryx Hbn. 



The pectinations of the (J-antenna longer than in the previous genus, irregularly arranged and incrassate 

 at their tips. Fore tibia unarmed. Wings shorter, more rounded, the fringes usually without gloss; forewing 

 with 10 free marginal veins and a cell within the cell. Larva reddish brown with black head, and black- 

 brown thoracic plates divided by a yellow stripe. Case short, densely covered lengthwise with stalks of 

 grass. The (J(J fly by day. 



E. hofmanni Heyl., from Sicily, with the forewing only 4.5 mm long, is blackish brown, and differs hofmanni. 

 from the commoner. E. -pulla inter alia in the long-hairy head and narrower wings. Flies in June. 



E. flavociliella Mann, from Asia Mmor, is compared with E. pulla: not half its size, ground-colour flavociUella. 

 more blackish, fringes pale yellow and silky also beneath. Found the middle of April, on the %\-ing during the 

 morning. 



E. tarnierella Brd. (= myrmidonella Brd.) (55 g) is the smallest species of the genus (forewing 3.5 mm iamierella. 

 long), brown with a greyish or yellowish suffusion and whitish yellow glossy fringes; the abdomen extends 

 beyond the anal angle of the hindwing. The $ 4 mm long, brown-yellow, with darker head and thoracic plates. 

 Larva wine-yellow, with black-brown head and thoracic plates, the latter divided by a paler thin line; on 

 Holcus mollis. The case cylindrical, but somewhat quadrangular. - Southern France, Holland; in May. 



