40 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Mr. Shield has two specimens which he took at Howth, 

 on the 15th of last July, among grass under brambles ; at 

 the time he supposed they were only Luticomella, or he 

 would have secured a greater supply. 



Lithocolletjs Bremiella, Zeller. {Frontispiece, Fig. 7.) 



Alis anticis saturate croceis, linea basali abbreviata, utrin- 

 que nigro-marginata, a rgenteo-alba, fascia media angulata, 

 strigulis tribus costse (ultima interdum obsoleta), duabus 

 dorsi argenteo-albis ; striola apicis nigra. Exp. al. 3| — \\ lin. 



Head fuscous; face and palpi silvery; antennae fuscous, 

 the tip whitish in certain lights. Anterior wings rather dark 

 saffron, with a short straight basal streak about a third the 

 length of the wing, dark margined on both sides ; in the 

 middle is an angulated silvery-white fascia, margined with 

 black internally and with a few black scales on its outer 

 margin; beyond are three small silvery-white streaks on 

 the costa (the third one sometimes wanting); they are inter- 

 nally margined with black; intermediate between these are 

 two larger triangular silvery-white spots on the inner margin, 

 dark margined on both sides; on the apex of the wing lies 

 a rather small, oval, black spot; hinder marginal line dark 

 fuscous ; cilia beyond pale grey. Posterior wings grey, with 

 paler cilia. 



Resembles L. lautella, but the anterior wings are broader 

 and the ground colour is paler, and the apical portion of the 

 wing is not suffused with black. 



This species was discovered a few years ago at Zurich, by 

 Herr Bremi- Wolff, in whose honour it has been named; the 

 larva was detected mining the leaves of several species of 

 Vicia. On the 26th of September last I received several 

 mines of this species from Herr Schmid of Frankfort-on- 

 the-Main, and, profiling by the information derived from the 

 sight of these mined leaves, I visited on the 28th a locality 



